I've come as the comic disaster that is my life.

The British are coming.

Mama, and unhooked a fish.

Hello, everyone.

This is And Just Like That, the writer's room, the official companion podcast of And Just Like That from Max.

I'm Michael Patrick King, writer-director and executive producer of In Just Like That,

and I'm here with writer and consulting producer Susan Fails Hill.

Hello, Michael and listeners.

And the writers of this particular episode, supervising producer Samantha Irby, calling in from Michigan. Hello from the Midwest. And first

time writer on in just like that this season, Lucas Frolic. Hey, everybody. Hey, Lucas. Well, this episode is

episode 205 and it is called Trick or Treat, which will give you a hint. It's our Halloween episode with a lot of tricks and a lot of treats.

If you haven't seen the episode, I would suggest it at this point, you turn us off and turn it on because we will be talking about things that will spoil the fun.

The tricks will be gone and the treats will be clear before you want them to be.

So we start the episode with our ongoing couple in transition, I would say, Miranda and Che.

Where we started with this episode is that thing when you're moving in with somebody sort of too soon.

Yeah.

Want to talk about Samantha moving in with somebody?

Yeah, it is the worst idea anyone could ever have.

But we tried to highlight how hard it is to fit your life around someone else's life when the two of you are doing two different things, like night person and day person, lawyer and comic.

When we were trying to begin was to show how the strains of the Miranda DNA completely differs from the Che DNA. And I remember in the writing

room, we tried a lot of different ways, but we came up with that simple idea of one's a night

person and one's a day person. It seemed to be clearer. Well, not in the stress of having to go

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