I think the directive, really, was to make it so that it wasn’t just one genre. We really were trying to make it as broad as possible. And I think we hit that with each song just being very different, whether having Sade and the Cranberries [in Episode 4]or all of the fun music in the pilot. Obviously [the music] had to be very period-specific; each episode took place in a different year. I went to my own personal playlist of songs that I love from the ’90s and then just took them into their respective year. I think New York is a character in itself. We say it all the time on TV: Music is a character. But I think, in a period piece, music actually yes
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