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This post contains spoilers for the entire season of Peacock’s Mrs. Davis.

There may be more thematically rich, artistically audacious TV shows on this spring. There has not, however, been anything that comes close in strangeness, shock value, or delightfully stupid humor than Peacock’s Mrs. Davis, which this week dropped its eighth and final episode.

We already told you how wonderfully weird Mrs. Davis (created by Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof) was. Now that the entire season is out there, it’s time to highlight some of the best,...

This article contains spoilers for Mrs. Davis through episode 5.

When accomplished TV writer Damon Lindelof was scanning through a stack of scripts to find a writing partner for his next project, he knew he wanted a scribe with nuts and bolts TV experience. He eventually found that partner in the form of Tara Hernandez, who had worked on traditional TV heavy-hitters like The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon.

Together, Lindelof and Hernandez would go on to create the concept of Peacock‘s wild new sci-fi series Mrs. Davis. But why, exactly, did Lindelof seek a collaborator who knew how to write within a comfortable sitcom format for this ambitious project? Because in order to upend the expectations of television storytelling one has to first master them.

“It does feel a bit non-magical and mundane to break down the fundamental aspects of creativity,” Lindelof told Den of Geek at this year’s SXSW.