Craig Wright, one of the other writers, is a very elegant thinker, and when he's thinking out loud these phrases come out of his mouth in the writer's room. One day he was talking about a character doing something, and he said, 'We don't know why she's doing it. In the rainbow of her reasons, there might be jealousy, there might be lust, there might be anger.' And when he said it, it stopped the room, we all just started laughing hysterically. So it was a room joke-like a horrible name for a really bad Lifetime series about why women do what they do.

I hate when people say everything happens for a reason To me, it's just the same as saying, 'Jesus loves you.' So I wanted her to start out with spirit, spirit, spirit, everything works in mysterious ways. And then when Ruth says everything happens for a reason, she just explodes with all of the anger I have toward that phrase.

There were questions about how funny it should be, how emotional it should be. On the page, both Ruth and Bettina find it sort of comical. When we started doing the performance of it, it was really moving. And when we got to Patty's fifth and sixth take, I was crying. It was really touching to watch. So we went back and forth a little with the edit, even on performance day, and took down Kathy's making fun of her.

The undrunk Sarah is a lot more spiritual than I am. But the drunken Sarah is very close to my own voice.

I come to this with a comedy background and a deep aversion to anything deep. Whenever somebody in the room pitches a child dying or something disgusting, I have to cover my ears and sing loudly.

Because it's the last season, I definitely went for it more in this episode. It's similar to leaving a job and rummaging through the office supply cabinets and grabbing the stapler and the colored index cards you always wanted. I went for everything I always wanted to put in there. Claire's musical fantasy protest song about pantyhouse is a dream come true for me.