Emotions are not designed to be maximally accurate or make us happy, but rather to be adaptively biased towards safer outcomes, which can lead to frequent false alarms.

“our brains have evolved to be adaptively biased in the direction of the safer error. That's why our anxiety has so many false alarms. That's why it's so overreactive. But the cool insight is that it's not a bug. It's a feature.”

Adapting a novel into a television series requires balancing a central murder mystery with the personal evolution of the characters.

“I mean, it was like the deeper in that Mickey got in exploring her relationship with her family, the more we were able to understand what was happening in the murder mystery. And so, I think that one was always always dependent upon upon the other.”

The speaker believes that when adapting a life story, it is more important to focus on the character's internal experience than on existing public perceptions.

“we're telling this story before she knows what's going to happen to her where she's just taking it in and she's forming the narrative that is going to be the reason that she murders so I don't want you to watch or try to explain it after it's happened”

The speaker asserts that the limited series format provides the necessary time to deeply explore character-driven narratives that features films cannot accommodate.

“I really wanted to explore her you know this character who's her own protagonist and antagonist and you needed time to really do that and you couldn't do it”