mo ryan on pilots:

"basically what a show is doing in its first couple episodes is telling you what its priorities are. It's doing a lot of other, you know, nuts and bolts stuff, but it's telling you, 'here's what we're going to do. here's what matters to us. here's what we're gonna go for. here's how hard we're gonna try.' " (14:24-14:37) talking tv with ryan and ryan, episode 73