“Secrets of Transformation: How Laura Eason Breathed New Life Into ‘Three Women’ as a Bold TV Masterpiece”
The novel interweaves the stories of its three main characters, and the TV series does the same. Things get interesting when each woman’s story receives its own space, and some narratives begin to bleed together. This intricate structure can easily overwhelm a writer unless they remain focused on why the structure exists in the first place.
For Eason and her writers’ room, the goal wasn’t to create a timeline that aligned perfectly. Instead, the characters’ journeys dictated the structure.
“We didn’t want people super detailed tracking the months, the years,” Eason explained. “So we let the character and the character arcs lead—that was most important in terms of the structure. But we also wanted to honor the uniqueness of each story, which is why some of the episodes are woven, telling all of their stories in a more thematic way.”
