I read this interview I think J.J. Abrams gave afterFelicity, says Robert.

He said he just wished sometimes that Felicity could have been a secret agent and go undercover.

And so thats why he createdAlias.

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Thats, I think, where this is coming from.

The extremism really is a dangerous thing.

So what do the creepy bugs symbolize?

Michelle Robert King

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There seemed to be some sense of people no longer thinking for themselves.

They were kind of attaching themselves to a bigger ideology.

She can make unrealistic plot twists seem real.

If that sounds familiar to King fans, theres a good reason why.

And day players she would raise their game by being so on the ball.

Weve lucked out with Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

She does exactly the same thing.

BrainDeadalso stars Aaron Tveit (Grease Live!

), Tony Shalhoub (Monk), and Zach Grenier (The Good Wife).

The series debuts Monday, June 13 at 10 p.m.