Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives, and I am here with the showrunner of the

Elwar Generation Q. Hi Marja Lewis Ryan. Hi Jess how are you? Good how are you? Are you in

LA right now? I sure am. I'm in my best friends apartment. We are working on a feature together

and it is so fun. Oh that's great. Is your best friend somebody that we would know like a writer?

She's a writer on the Elwar. So in that way you might know her. What's her name? Her name is

Allie Romano. So she started off as my manager's assistant and she was just like in the beginning of

my career sort of like shepherded me like around the city very literally. I get lost very easily.

I don't follow directions well and she was there just like you know getting me to like my very

first meeting. So we've had like a very long relationship and then she became my assistant

for a long time and the Elward season one was her first staffing job. So we've sort of like come

up together and now we're co-writing a reboot to Girlsers Want to Have Fun. Pretty fun. No kidding.

Flaminate. Oh my god like the Helen Hunt movie. That's amazing. I was obsessed with Helen Hunt

like from the Mad About You days. Me too. But this isn't me too. This isn't a Mad About You podcast.

It could be though. Well it could be. We could talk about that the episode where they're locked in

the bathroom. That's like one of the greatest episodes of television. That Valentine's Day episode

is one of the they don't make television like that anymore. No. I mean they tried with Bettentina

locked in the elevator but you know. I was gonna say actually they tried to make that about you

again and they couldn't even do that. I watched the reboot of Mad About You actually. Lightning in

a bottle. Yeah. Now my favorite fun fact about you is that you wrote and directed a film starring

Abby Jacobson called Six Balloons and it was during a vanity fair interview for that film promoting

that film. You're ready laughing. You know what I'm gonna say that she inadvertently came out

to the interviewer kicking off this entire second wave of her career. Of course it's like the

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