How to Build an Engine in a Show

In a show like The Wire you can actually kill off half of the characters and instead replicate the model of out of the box thinkers in Baltimore. In other series like BoJack Horseman you can see a lot more complication or in succession if you've listened to my succession podcast. You can build an engine with great variation or with very little variation but each season needs to feel like the season before even as it feels different.