Somebody I know said they didn’t see how THE WHITE LOTUS could wrap up in two episodes in a satisfying way.
“Have faith in Mike White!” I replied. “The man wrote NACHO LIBRE.”
Mike White on the creative process: there’s an “open” mode that looks like dicking around to everyone else, and a “closed” mode, when you’ve got the idea and you’re working and bringing it to life (I think of it as a never ending game of hide and seek)
https://youtu.be/wo6m9VeBWO4