'House Of Lies' Showrunner Matthew Carnahan Talks Jenny Slate Drama, Mekhi Pfifer's Guest Role And Writing 'Lovable A--holes'
We're going to see a lot more of Jenny Slate. What's in store for her and Doug?
I can’t even begin to tell you what’s in store. But it’s really fun. The relationship between Jenny Slate’s character Sarah and Josh Lawson’s character Doug is such a bizarre relationship and it just gets more twisted when she decides they’re going to have a baby. She “pulls the goalie” without telling him, and there's chaos that ensues when they do that. Doug is less than enthusiastic about the thought of having a baby and ultimately causes a pretty big tear in the fabric of their relationship, especially with his new crush at work. We really get to see him be petty and anal and hypocritical and it’s my favorite Doug material certainly so far.
It seems like a lot of the women on the show are very successful professionally but are portrayed as over-the-top crazy in their personal lives.
I would argue that the men are exactly as ambitious, successful and crazy and we’re used to seeing women crazy but not successful and crazy. I think we’ve created an equal opportunity group of a--holes. I’m hoping that they’re lovable because we push how horrible they are pretty far and just hopes that it sticks. At least they’re authentically themselves, their horrible selves. In a way, Monica, the ex-wife character, gets to say and do all the horrific things that most businesswomen only fantasize about saying and doing.
The show's saving characters are members of Marty’s family, Roscoe particularly. How do you tread with his storyline?
We gave him a lot to do this year. We hired this amazing young actress, Bex Taylor-Klaus, who was also on "The Killing." She plays a gender nonconforming girl and they hook up and they find each other and it’s kind of great for a moment, but we really push that relationship as far as it’ll go. We really gave Donis Leonard, Jr. a ton of stuff to do around the relationship. His gender identity starts to become his sexual identity this season, which is new. That’s been really a challenge for him as an actor to embrace all of that and to take this relationship to places that are funny but also pretty uncomfortable and ultimately really charged emotionally.
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