Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lepo.

And I'm Lorian McKenna. And if you're not one of the 30 million people who watch Netflix's

The Perfect Couple over the last two months, then you've certainly seen it in your top 10.

Our guest, Jenna Lemia, developed, show ran, and co-wrote all six episodes of the

series, which is now a global sensation and is one of only five shows in the history of Netflix

to surpass one billion minutes of watch time.

Jenna has a long career as both a writer and an actor, having starred on shows like Oz,

Resident Alien and Awkward, where she also served as a writer. Jenna was, having starred on shows like Oz, Resident Alien and

Awkward, where she also served as a writer. Jenna was a co-executive producer on NBC's Good

Girls and has worked in features as well, including Selang Her spec, my best friend's

Exorcism, which is now available to watch on Amazon Prime, which I did not know about, and now

that we've done this introduction, I'm 100%

going to watch. I just love the title alone. Okay, so welcome to the show. Thank you. I love that

title too. And I just want to say it wasn't a spec. That's an adaptation to be to be a credit.

Where credits due to Grady Hendricks who wrote the book called My Best

Friend's Exorcism.

So that was, I think the first thing I ever adapted.

Loved that book and it kind of, that process taught me to adapt, which was useful in the

perfect couple.

Well, then I'm glad I made that error so that we can talk all about that because now I

want to dig into your brain about adaptations even more.

But before we do, we're going to do the first part of our show, which is called Adventures

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