It's often said that television is a writers' medium, but that's because scripts are a delivery device for the format's true lifeblood: plot. However interesting a project's themes may be, it requires structure and momentum to propel the action multiple episodes.

Annaleigh Ashford plays a TV makeup artist whose dad is notorious serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson in the eight-episode season.

The actor says it was 'remarkably easy' to play real-life killed Keith Hunter Jespersen in the new Paramount+ series.