Whatever the disagreement, just don’t call it an argument.

“It’s been a discussion,” Robert said. “And I wanted characters who had very different points of view on these subjects to be able to listen to each other respectfully, and they do throughout the series.”

The Kings have been thinking about a series like this for years. Part of the reason that it exists now is because of a reordered television landscape where companies like CBS, Warner Media, Comcast and Apple have created or are about to launch streaming services to compete with Netflix, Amazon and Hulu.

For the better part of a decade, the Kings have had one show at a time: “The Good Wife” ran on CBS from 2009 to 2016, “BrainDead” premiered later in 2016 and was quickly canceled, and then “The Good Fight” debuted on CBS All Access in 2017. Over the past decade, they have been pitching CBS to do more shows, only to be met with something of a stiff arm.

“Remember when we went in with them with that Matthew Perry thing?” Robert said to his wife during an interview, without elaborating on what that Matthew Perry thing actually was. “It was a little bit like, ‘Ehhhh, they don’t want, they don’t want.’”

He continued: “People aren’t as held in check as they used to be. CBS, which is our studio, seems to have more of a willingness to explore things that four, five or six years ago they would never explore.”

Stapf, the CBS Studio president, confirmed that the Kings have wanted to expand their slate since the early 2010s. He used to be more reluctant.