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The Treatment

Mike White: Enlightened

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mike White talks about his Golden Globe-winning series "Enlightened," now in its second season on HBO.

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

0:15.0

Welcome to the treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com.

0:19.3

It's been way too long since my guest, writer, director, and actor.

0:23.6

Mike White has been here, but he is now back for his newest adventure, we should call it,

0:28.7

Enlightened the series on HBO that stars Laura Dern and now him.

0:33.1

Mike, thanks so much for going back.

0:34.6

Thanks for having me.

0:35.9

The show is so fascinating to me because I think about the way it started with Amy,

0:41.6

played by Laura Dern, sobbing in the bathroom.

0:44.9

I mean, just almost like a melting clown sobbing in the bathroom, just completely sobbing into camera.

0:52.1

And then when the second season starts, she's a completely different person.

0:55.0

She's literally a woman with a mission. How much of that did you plan in terms of the writing?

1:00.8

What happened in the first two seasons, the original idea was to do it at one. But then as I started

1:06.0

writing, it just, I kept wanting to explore, you know, parts of her world and her life.

1:11.8

But the original idea was to have her a woman who, it's basically becoming a whistleblower

1:16.7

and how she tries to make change from within and then gives up on that and then decides

1:21.4

she, the only way to make positive change is to burn the place down in a sense.

1:26.0

So that was kind of the idea, it was always the idea for the first season, and it became the first two seasons.

1:31.1

So, yeah, it's changed a little bit, certainly in this season,

1:33.7

because a lot of the first season has her, like, trying to find a place to land

1:37.7

with all of her good intentions.

1:40.3

And now she has, you know, she's a woman with a mission.

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