A recent profile in The New Yorker of White Lotus creator Mike White neglected to mention his very first TV creation, a short-lived 2001 Fox show called Pasadena. I took the oversight personally because I happened to have been Mike’s showrunner on that series. It was one of the more educational, entertaining, and bizarre gigs…

My mother tells a story I don’t remember about someone once asking six-year-old me what I wanted to be when I grew up. Without blinking, I replied, “Jimmy Stewart.” Even at that early age, I was already under the thrall of the movies and TV shows beaming into our den through the rabbit ears of…