Obviously, things changed. “There’s a pretty explicit scene in the original pilot where I’m doing things to a man, which will now be changed to doing less things to a man,” she said. “But the tone hasn’t changed. The show’s not about sex, it’s not about boobs, it’s not about the F-word. It’s about obsession. And that’s something you can show on broadcast.”
Bloom says she and co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna (screenwriter of The Devil Wears Prada) aim to “take the tropes of a romantic comedy and go underneath them” as they explore the title character, who leaves her home to move into the city where her former boyfriend now lives. And they’ll do so with two or three songs in each episode. “The music is the most fun thing to shoot and the most fun thing to write,” she insisted. “It’s hard, but it doesn’t feel like a chore.”
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