>hires her no-experience sister to your writers room
scared, potter?

francesca gardiner, showrunner
>co-executive producer on the shit hbo "his dark materials" with jack thorne (guy who invented black hermione in his harry potter play), wrote 5 episodes
>was on succession staff but never wrote an episode
>low-ranking producer on killing eve, never wrote an episode
laura neal
>another producer from killing eve
josephine gardiner
>showrunner's sister
>has never written for tv before
andy greenwald
>creator of "briarpatch"
>wrote on legion
>publicly stated that he didn't read all the harry potter books
ripley parker
>thandie newton's 24yo daughter
>got given a show by netflix despite having zero previous tv experience in any capacity, she was the showrunner and wrote 4 episodes
>harry potter is her second ever writing job
these are the people hbo has hired to write their biggest show since game of thrones
black snape is a joke but this is why it will be shit