From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. My guests have taken the world of TV by storm over the past few years or so going back to, of course, Gilmore Girls and one of my favorites, Bunhead.

And Bunheads, forgive me for not properly pluralizing it.

There are many heads.

The newest success on Amazon is The Marvel's Mrs. Maiselan's third season.

I'm talking, of course, to Amy Sherman Palladino and Dan Palladino.

Guys, thank you so much for doing this.

Very, very welcome.

And here's the thing I want to start off with, which I'm sure you get all the time,

but your characters are so much about taste and their taste about things and asserting their tastes.

I mean, going back to Gilmore girls.

And, I mean, I even think about it in the pilot episode where Susie is giving the speech to Midge and saying that she believes in her.

And she sees in her something that nobody else sees.

And it's really a reflection of her taste and

sort of making that that stamp and putting it out there for Mitch to see. I guess I wonder where

that comes from for you guys. Well, we're very opinionated. And no or not. I, you know,

the more specific a character is, the more I think people can get behind the character.

And, you know, pilots are a very tricky thing because in a pilot, you have to make the audience invest in a character they don't know, invest in a backstory that they are just being fed pieces of,

and then sign on for the ride. It's a tricky dance. And so to lay out your case, so to speak,

I think that for us, it's always been, A, it fun, and also to help sort of really define where

the character is coming from to sort of put very specific tastes out there, whether it be like

mentioning the kind of books that they read, which will say, you know, whether they are a book reader

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