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

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. My guest is, I think, does magic with a written word.

And what she's done from her films, from life partners to her new film,

The Spy Who Dump Me, and her book Nuclear Family, is, I think, my best to put this,

takes a look at archetypes and examines what's under there,

the idea of, for her, I think, thinking you judge a book by a cover and you find out you really can't is what she does as a writer.

My guess, of course, is Suzanne Foggle.

First of all, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

I'm a big fan of the show.

Oh, you're the one.

God, I was going to meet you.

Me and all my friends.

Okay.

Well, I'll meet them too.

Great.

We can give them all Jolly Ranchers.

But I think one of the things that, for example, between life partners and the

Spire would dump me is taking the idea of somebody who doesn't know what to do with her life and is judged by everybody for not knowing what to do with her life, that's an interesting character to start off with for a comedy because that could also be a very dramatic situation, too.

Yeah. I mean, I think it's that sort of struggle to make peace with yourself and the ways that your dreams have or haven't come true at that age of

I think around the 30th birthday, that crisis of many. It's often a favorite part of other movies, too.

Like my favorite part of bridesmaids was sort of the slightly depressing, like, reckoning that

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