Why Insecure's season finale had an unusual structure

Entertainment Weekly

“We constantly like to play with the idea of how we use time in our episodes and finding new ways to tell our stories,” says showrunner Prentice Penny. “We had started to play with time in episode four, where it was all taking place in one day. And we liked the idea of what else can we do with playing with time. When we started talking about the finale and where we were going in the end, we tried to tell some of these stories linearly and they just didn’t work. I’m not sure how it came up in the room, but the idea of doing three different stories and seeing how they would later lead together made sense. I hope next season we find more ways to play with the way we tell stories in every way: time, visually, anything interesting.” PLUS: Penny addresses condom and oral sex criticism, and an appreciation of Molly’s therapist’s office.