Darci Interviews TV Writers

Hello there. I love TV.  Like a lot. I still cherish my lazy days of being a couch potato and binging the latest series that just dropped, or revisiting an old favorite. I love to get lost in these make believe worlds and pretend for a hot minute that these characters are my friends. I had my sleepless nights in high school to wait all week to see if Dr. Meredith Grey would survive her latest near death experience. I'd stay up past my bedtime in middle school so I could watch what zany problems Jack Tripper would get into this episode -- but mostly to watch how he'd fall down. I wanted to  be  these characters and live in these worlds. But the difference from my childhood to now is that I am turning it into a career (if all goes right). Which means my lazy days of binging shows have paid off. Now when I binge a show, I get to tell myself it's 'work'. In grad school for TV writing, it never got old hearing my professors assigning us TV shows to watch as our homework!

Hometown: Pasadena, CA Current Town: Hollywood, baby What are you working on now?: Developing a pilot about an all-women's social club. Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person: When my father took me to New York for the first time as a kid, I was totally enamored of the people and lights and skyscrapers and parks. I asked him why it felt so wonderful to be in New York, what made it so electric and beloved, and he answered right away, "Money." That's a joke... uh... as a former psych major and a hater of movie flashbacks, I don't believe personality is defined by any single experience. If you could change one thing about television, what would it be?: I could never settle for one thing. Who are or were your television heroes?: Dr. House, Claire Fisher, Joan Holloway, Rick Sanchez, Villanelle... I already did therapy. What kind of television excites you?: I still remember the year that the Mr Robot