I am an organizational expert. Over the years, Woodard has arguably created some of the most richly defined characters ever for an actress in either television or film. No matter if they're sitting in a suit over at an oil company, whether they're up a pole for water and power, whether they're a teacher sitting listening to kids, even if a certain picture's been painted of them in a script. No matter what they have to do, or what has happened to them, they are just a human in these particular circumstances. What you do is find that reality.
Nobody believes they're a bad guy.
Everybody is looking out from their eyes, thinking from their point of view. So you start from knowing that everybody is trying to do well, trying to do right. I think what it does is that it shows L.A. as it really is. The story follows different storylines but eventually weaves the families tighter than they could ever imagine. Woodard says that the diverse cast is important, but is secondary to the characters being real people.