This show is a lot about separateness,
just things that we don't tell one another,
or things we're too, like, ashamed to admit.
We all have our own thoughts in our head
that can be very isolating and lonely.
There's just something very freeing about these two characters
who have seen each other at their very, very worst.
What?
All of, like, the horrible things they've done,
and they are still there for each other.
There's, like, a really good Ram Dass quote that says,
like, ''We're all just walking each other home'',
and I think that feeling is
probably something that we're trying to capture.
Ow!
Of course it would take a complete stranger
like a meteor crashing into your reality to, like, shake you awake.
Hi.
What is that but two, like, strangers
finding this connection with each other
through, like, an unexpected meet-cute?
When those two meet there's such tension.
Is it, like, sexual?
What is it?
It's this, like, dramedy thriller
but I also think it works as a romantic comedy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You started this.
Me?
In couples therapy a lot of couples get trapped
into a fight because they develop this routine.
You're the one that flipped me off all roided out and shit.
You know, I wouldn't push it, Daniel.
I think the reason a stranger has to kind of be the one that snaps
Danny and Amy out is because they are so entrenched in their pattern.
I've been hustling my whole life.
You know,
like, even just for, like, the basics.
And I always thought the hustle was, like, the cause of this, like, feeling.
But now I'm starting to wonder if it's just, like, always there.
Danny, he's not trying to be narcissistic,
but like, he's in deep fear and so, like,
he's just coming from that type of insecurity.
It's easy for him to understand his reality
as long as everything's in the place it needs to be.
Especially Paul.
Danny keeps Paul where Paul's supposed to be.
Paul, if you study really hard
and skip three grades,
then we could go to school at the same time.
That's the plan.
Maybe you stay with me and commute to college.
I'm doing my own thing.
Danny doesn't want to keep Paul down,
but that's just what he knows now.
Young is great.
He's a really fantastic actor, and we really got into that
brotherly, competitive, loving kind of place.
Come here.
Yo.
Hey, I got you.
I have a brother and if you have brothers, like,
you just love each other in weird ways.
Push me up!
-Yeah. -Okay.
Oh, shit!
Holy shit!
The way that scene was scripted, there were just too many words,
and you were really kind of honed in on what it is
that you really wanted to say through this character in that moment.
When we were actually there
and Young was, like, ten, fifteen feet up high
on this thing and I was like...
You got to get away from me, man.
You got to get away from me.
That's the line.
Yeah.
-Yeah, it's a great, great moment. -Yeah.
I've been like this my entire life.
I want to blame my parents, but, um, I think it's just me.
Amy, she wants to be more open with her husband and her family.
Babe?
But, she's developed this routine
from an early age to go very inward into herself.
And so it did take just something completely from left field to, like,
snap her out of that pattern.
I was masturbating with the gun because
sex with you is so, um...
So what?
Say it.
So what?
It's vanilla.
Hi, Mommy.
I had said this from the beginning to Sonny that
this show very much provides an opportunity for me to
talk about and express all the things that I haven't
been able to say on stage in my standup.
I'm only able to do that
because of this world that Sonny created,
and for whatever reason, like, it's been the best way for me to say
how it feels to be angrily seemingly together.
It's been a beautiful journey and at times really, really hard.
Did Naomi show you that road rage video?
She did.
It's really terrible.
The idea for the panic room
came from Maria's hearing about the road rage.
The world's gone completely insane.
I have to go check out some panic rooms.
That, like, gets her to look into panic rooms.
Panic room.
Southwest corner.
Jordan, don't.
You two, shut the fuck up!
That's actually the thing that is her demise.
A lot of that was like, honestly, Maria's performance, and...
I think she loved doing it.
She was so excited to die such a, like, iconic death on camera.
Yes.
Room secured.
The writers room ended before we actually could get to the finale.
And so writing the finale is really hard because
I had to write it during production.
I think none of us knew what to expect.
In fact, one of the Netflix executives came to visit
and she was wearing white sneakers that were brand new
and I was like, clearly, you did not know what to expect either.
We need water.
Humans can go days without water, so relax.
That is 100% not true.
Oh, yeah? How long, then?
Yeah, I don't know.
Nineteen hours.
Nineteen?
There was one setup where, and I don't think I've told you this.
You know when you're by yourself and then you look out to the valley
and you, like, sit down and you're like, "Ugh, water"?
Mm-hmm.
So right before, there was maybe the biggest snake of the week
that was like right where you were supposed to...
Snake of the week.
The wrangler did his amazing job and, like, picked it up
and you know, very safely transported it to another area.
And we were just like,
"Yeah, let's not tell Ali about that."
I'm so glad you didn't tell me that.
I would've turned my arms into wings
and flown out of wherever we were shooting that day.
I've slept nineteen hours without water, you idiot.
Who sleeps that long?
I had a bad day.
You're a child.
You're a baby.
We had to figure out a different way
for these two people to be stuck together.
So, poison felt like the natural thing to do.
Can I get you anything else?
Tea?
Dessert?
You know, there's something funny about your character being, like,
into plants and just sort of not...
Knowing anything about them?
Yeah.
You said you were a plant expert.
I just Google shit and pretend that I am.
I'm gonna die.
That last episode was really fun because that was the first time
that Ali and I got to spend a lot of time together.
We had kind of been separated into our own realities,
and then to come together in ten was really fun.
When I started this, I knew that
these two characters needed to come together at the very end.
You just wanted to feel seen.
We all do, right?
I don't want anyone to see who I really am.
There's nothing more intimate than fighting.
You know what I mean?
When you get into a really bad beef like that,
you're closer by association through that type of vulnerability.
I think when nowhere feels like home,
you just retreat into yourself.
So it felt like the right kind of close to, like, a real connection.
I think it was actually your idea to do the hospital bed thing.
Oh, it was.
Yeah, yeah it was.
That scene he was like, ''I think I just want the feeling
of two people coming home to each other''.
As designed, that scene wasn't
supposed to have a flashback to the inciting incident,
and that's just something that came up in post.
And, fortunately, you had really good
reaction shots that felt like you were thinking about the inciting incident.
It's what you see.
It's like two people who
have been through a lot holding each other.
And so that hospital bed moment is a little something to make
the audience lean in at the very end and just a little glimmer of hope.
It gets the people going.
It's okay.
I see it all.
You don't have to hide. It's okay.
This is nice.
Um.
Did that answer it?
Yeah.
This should just be, like, like a bunch of cuts of us being like...
-Yeah. -Um.
We just got to stitch together your edits.
-Yeah. -Does that answer it?