It's about character, and that might make it harder to get into initially.

The character of Annie Doultry is plainly a self-portrait of Brando. There are transcripts of conferences he and Cammell had, and Brando did a lot of improvising, playing the Annie Doultry character. Plainly he saw this as a part that he might play in a movie himself.

He has a really good bullshit meter,

He can see something and in a quick and unemotional way he can cut the fat off. You trust him implicitly because of his track record.

but it also identified what we wanted the show to be, and particularly what Posie wanted the show to be.

When we meet Jack he is finally trying to sort himself out. He did a runner when his girlfriend told him she was pregnant, choosing the life of a B-grade pub-rock star over fatherhood. He knew Heaven had a daughter, but has no idea what has happened to them over the last 20 years.