"I would absolutely be Team Carol as far as arguing the necessity and the positives of individual thinking,"
"There's never going to be a joke that you haven't heard. There's never going to be a surprise behavior that makes you laugh. And that's just such a source of joy for me that I just can't imagine that contentment is the same as happiness."
"Gilligan "wanted to play with tone and take wild swings as far as [the series] could be darkly comedic, or it could be darkly psychological ... and he was impressed at my ability to do those things," Seehorn says. "I'm certainly very thankful for it.""
"There's this idea [that] anger can be a miasma almost, that can spread. And we've all seen horrible things can happen when you just are riling people up. ... But at the same time, it is a necessary emotion, which, I think, is one of the arguments in the show that I side with the idea that all of the emotions are important, not just happiness. Because I'm a woman playing the role it felt as though I was taught that anger was unpalatable, specifically from females, and that I should find"
Rhea Seehorn stars as Carol, a bestselling romance author who resists a world bound by a psychic glue that shares memories and knowledge among everyone. The communal bond produces happiness and peace but threatens individual identity and the capacity for surprise, humor, and personal judgment. The show's creator reworked the lead as female to showcase tonal shifts between dark comedy and psychological drama and to leverage Seehorn's range. The narrative argues that anger and the full spectrum of emotions matter alongside happiness, and that enforced contentment can undermine authentic joy and individuality.
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