Part of the delight (and horror) of the show is seeing its wayward protagonist, Suzie, constantly being caught up in a cycle of bad decisions that are all too familiar to anyone who’s been trapped in a similar crisis.

“One of the things we talked a lot about when creating this was the anxiety over the ways our lives can collapse around us in our 30s,” Prebble, who is also part of the writing team behind hit series Succession, told Stylist last year. “It’s a crazy time for a woman, I think. You’re either saying, ‘Oh god I made the wrong decisions in my 20s’ or, ‘Oh god I didn’t make any decisions in my 20s and I should have done.’”

“It’s something we feel is very strongly rooted in every moment of the show,” Piper added. “That feeling of, ‘Oh don’t do that, don’t do that, don’t do that…’ But it’s exactly what you would probably do.”

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