News Summary

• That’s the other line to walk, which is if I make it too awful, then you’re going to get mad at me, you’re going to feel like I’m making fun of the story when there’s comedy later on in the episode..
• I spent my childhood sharing meals with the incest survivors who came to tell their stories, the Andrea Dworkins and Susan Brownmillers and those folks, so this was always a very personal story to me in terms of understanding the real obligation to tell these stories..
• In an interview, Hawley spoke with Variety to break down that final scene and the season as a whole, and discussed his approach to telling a story about domestic violence, and how he was influenced by his mother, the feminist writer Louise Armstrong..
• I felt like the action of the story had ended, and we were in the denouement of this story..
• I was just trying to save my life so I could be a mother to my children.” They reach this place, and it’s a very tense back and forth over many minutes as to whether he’s going to harm this family or she’s going to win out..
• If she’d woken up the next day and there’d been another crazy Coen brothers story, we couldn’t even call it a true story..