- alan ball comes up with a show with a perfect structure. each episode starts with the death of a character, and then that character's death is dealt with in a local family funeral home mortuary. [distant sobbing and screaming] [screaming] - excuse me. - this was one of my first-- and maybe it was my first--binge show, which was long enough ago that it was all on--somebody had recorded it on vcr. - have you been watching mrs. romano? - yeah. i've been watching her all night. are you thinking what i'm thinking? both: casket climber. - [gasps] - i want to go with you! - mrs. romano, mrs. romano! - i want to go with you! - whoa, whoa, whoa, mrs. romano. - there's a whole new level of something going on on television. it was grittier than most shows you'd ever seen before,