[Audio from MAG Roundtable - Making of Season 5]
JONNY:
…So that the apocalypse came, like, I dunno Episode, like 17, just out of the blue in Season 5, which Alex pushed back on, saying that it will be really hard to maintain that much of early Season 5 when there were effectively no actual stakes and, so—
ALEX: It’s, it’s fine. You can say it. What I did, is I said, ‘no one wants an office romance for 10 episodes. No one would enjoy that, Jonny, it’s boring! So let’s skip that, and go straight to the misery.’
ANIL: Have, have you actually seen the fan reactions?
ALEX: We don’t have fans! This all just gets put in a filing cabinet somewhere.