Dan Harmon: First season is very different from second season in one fundamental regard, which is that first season I did not know how to work with anybody. I did this weird Howard Hughes thing in my pyjamas at home where I would re-write every episode for two days and people would be calling and going: “Well, we need the thing.” and I’d go: “Yeah, well, why don’t you shoot the one you got! You wanna bad TV show so much, shoot the script you got! I’ll see you at the finish line, motherfucker! — Show me all the blueprints!“
It occurred to me finishing a season like that, that I was thirty seven and not twelve, and that we were spending a lot of money on a bunch of really talented people that were there to help me. … I dragged these poor ten people into that horrible dark process … I’ve never had that intimate of a relationship with a group of people because I’m a bad, bad, bad person. This season, if you like it more than the first season, you like it because of our writers and I just wanted to acknowledge that. Our writing staff is the best writing staff in the world.
Interesting. I liked the first season the best, but there was interesting stuff in the second season for sure, and it was still hilarious.
My question is why the third season (so far) felt more uneven and less hilarious. Seems to be missing some edge to me, even if I still love it.
(Source: annieofitall)
