Because if it’s not hard, the superstitious my brain triggers. And then it goes there and then we’re on to that.” It laid out in a way so clean for us that there wasn’t a lot of hand-wringing or second-guessing, which behind the scenes caused me to do a lot of hand-wringing and second-guessing. Each episode, we were like, “Yeah, that’s cool. And this one just came really fast and naturally.
And usually you can draw a pretty straight line from the harder a season is to break and figure out, the better it is in general. Challenging and exciting, but really hard. The actual process of breaking the story is hard. But you get a lot of the fun out of the camaraderie of the writers room, and joking around and laughing. You’ve said you were concerned while writing this season that it felt too easy and fun. In a recent conversation with Rolling Stone, showrunner Eric Kripke explains the show’s political analogies, the fate of the already infamous giant-penis prop from this season’s debut episode, the adaptation process, why the writers think of Barack Obama while they make the show’s most disgusting scenes, the upcoming college-show spinoff, and more.
