It was recently announced that after four magnificent seasons, Nathan For You was ending. As a huge fan of the show, this bummed me out because it is human nature to want more of the things that you love. But I also completely understood the decision.

For me, the question isn’t how a show as singularly brilliant and original as Nathan For You could end after only four seasons when, for instance, Mama’s Family lasted six seasons and one hundred and thirty episodes. No, for me the question is how were Fielder and his brilliant collaborators able to sustain such an impossibly complicated, difficult, time and labor-intensive, painstakingly crafted project for four entire seasons?