: Well, I should probably back up. What is it about? What, I mean in in a nutshell, like, what is this whole show about?: I feel like the most important thing to communicate is it’s fiction, right? The director and writer of the show, the creator of the show, Tom McCarthy, he made the movie “Spotlight” in 2015, which was about an actual series of stories that the Boston Globe team wrote about the Catholic Church, right? And it was kind of retelling how those stories were reported and told.
And so that was appealing, this idea that, all right, there are things that are broken that seem fixable. So we did that project with ProPublica. And after the, after the stories started to publish, I started getting all these inquiries about film and TV rights. And I’d gotten that a few times before and kind of never really paid attention to it. But this was, like, really, it just kept happening and happening. That was a little scary to me, because these themes are really delicate.
And I was and I thought that was just a nice treatment. And so, you know, we talked and all the stories I’ve heard is like, lots of things get talked about, but nothing ever gets made. So I thought, “Well, that’s probably the last I’ll hear of that.” And then they filmed the pilot, and I was like, “Hmm, that seems like a big investment.” But then it still seemed like it wasn’t gonna happen. And then, just in the spring, it was like, “Hey, this is happening.
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