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As part of the gag that Ann Veal is boring and forgettable, the writers decided to replace Alessandra Torresani with Mae Whitman in season two. But, as the Good Girls actress recalled in 2018, she was just too good for the role. "They were originally going to keep replacing the actress that played Ann, just so you were always on your toes," Whitman revealed to People's Couch Surfing podcast. "And then they stuck with me, which I feel like is a real insult. They were like, ‘No, no, you're making the whole not-memorable thing work, we'll just go with that.'"