This Is Us producer: NBC is so great about "not just blindly following a set of standards and practices”

Entertainment Weekly

“They totally got it,” executive producer Isaac Aptaker says of the use of a certain word on Tuesday’s episode that raised some eyebrows. “With The Carmichael Show — and I thought it was such a smart episode that they did so well — NBC is so great about understanding the context that things are in, and not just... blindly following a set of standards and practices. So I think because of the way the word was used, and the importance of it in the scene and the story we were telling, they completely got what we were trying to do, and did not have a problem with it.”