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'Poker Face' Showrunners Lilla & Nora Zuckerman

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Is There a Difference Between 10 Episodes and 22 Episodes?

The 10 episodes versus 22 is that it really pushes you to make every single episode just absolutely killer. I think because a lot of writers might have approached Charlie's ability and the way this this show lays out as a story problem we saw it as a story opportunity right Charlie's ability while it may help her solve crimes doesn't help her get justice. There are a lot of times where her ability actually becomes more of a problem than a help, which goes back to our sci-fi roots or our superhero roots. You would love to throw obstacles up at your characters and go oh you think you're invulnerable to X well what if Y happened? That's sort of the most fun thing in

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