The Us D a Is All Sunshine and Roses, Right?

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"This is a show that's intended to be anti cynical, but we can't," he says. "If we just tried to do pro government propaganda, people would cotton on to it instantly and they would say, i'm not swallowing this shit." He adds: " problems are usually not caused by characters. They're usually caused by structures...and so a big part of my work is i try to expose the system for what it is ... then we can actually solve the problem"

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