How to Be a Successful Writer on a Series

Is there more cooks in the kitchen on something like this, whether it's like a showrunner or is that different than a feature film? Or is it still the same sort of process for discovering what you and director X want to do for your episodes? Yes, it's a bit of both. But I mean, I guess I've been lucky. I haven't had a lot of people that are really nitpicking anything.