sentences:  The concept was inspired by the creators' interactions with their superiors and with their experiences in the entertainment industry.Todd Kessler addressed how he views gender as playing into the series' narrative saying, "I don’t think we look at the story as, this is a great female story... We see the Patty-Ellen relationship as a universal one between anyone who has had a boss and goes into a job thinking that success is working hard and doing what the boss asks and realizing that it’s only a small percentage of it.