The most difficult story that I’ve ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was ‘The Constant’ episode of ‘Lost,’ which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.
‘Atlanta’ changes genres a lot per episode.
Sometimes films don’t turn out the way they were envisioned on paper. And when that happens, one must just forget the entire episode.
If I am honest with myself, a not-insignificant fraction of my enjoyment of any episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ is delivered in its opening moments. I sit down, settle in, and… BUM-bum, bah-dah-BUM-bum.
Most people know me from ‘The Office,’ where I played a guy who grunted out three or four words an episode and was kind of a knucklehead, and so I think it’s surprising for people to see me do something like this. But Shakespeare is what I grew up wanting to do.
I often get asked which ‘Superstore’ episode is my favorite. That’s such a hard question to answer. It’s like being asked: Which of your children (and by children, I mean shoes) do you like best?
As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.
‘The Good Wife’ has actually been something, ironically, that I’ve watched since episode one, season one in the U.K. because it came up when I was in drama school. I always watched it. It was kind of like an actor’s show.
I did a guest episode of ‘Royal Pains,’ and then right after that, ‘Supergirl’ happened, and I was like, ‘How did I get here?’ Every day, I walk on set, and I’m waiting for someone to be like, ‘Ma’am, you can’t be here.’
Sometimes there were certain things in ‘Limmy’s Show’ where I’d be having to come up with six episodes and as a result there was stuff in there that wasn’t my favourite and I’d think, ‘ach I’ll shove that in this episode.’
I approach horror music differently than anything else. The very first time I watch an episode, I want to be playing an instrument to it so I can get that shock into the show.
It’s ‘Star Trek!’ It’s as close to an American mythology as we get. To be a part of that storytelling after being a fan since I was a teenage boy who saw the pilot episode of ‘Next Generation’ air, it’s all very surreal.
One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn’t even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer’s image changing because he had hair.
We have a great musical sequence in episode five of ‘Smash’ called ‘Let’s Be Bad,’ and it probably is the closest to ‘Chicago’ that I think any of us have ever experienced.
The Dinakaran episode has brought to the surface the vexed problem of the arbitrary and totally unsatisfactory manner of selecting and appointing judges as well as the unresolved problem of dealing with complaints of misconduct and corruption against judges.
‘Blackish’ is set in current times. So, doing a police brutality episode in current times when kids are watching our show, it gives them an access point to have these kinds of conversations as family.
