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Becca Brunstetter

Becca Brunstetter

Emmy- and Tony-nominated playwright, screenwriter, and television writer; creator and showrunner of The Five Star Weekend on Peacock.

Jul 23, 2026

7:11
Right.
7:11
Just imagine doing it for an evening.
7:13
There comes a point where you're like, everything's sort of like not going well, and you're realizing that you're out of touch with people and that there's conflict that you haven't dealt with in your life, and yet your house is full of people, and you feel like, "What did I do? Why did I do this to myself?"
7:28
Right.
7:29
And on top of her hitting a bit of a wall in terms of the hostessing, she's suffered an immense loss that she hasn't really processed.
7:37
She's in a bad place with her daughter.
7:39
Um, so she's kind of just in over her head.
7:42
That's how we considered this episode when we were breaking out the whole season, really building her to her true breaking point, really cracking her open by the end of this episode.

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