cautionary tale

All of this makes Amendment 3 a cautionary tale, even if the effects of the state Supreme Court’s latest rulings will only be temporary.

But Yahlin Chang and Eric Tuchman — longtime series writers who took over as showrunners for the final season from co-creator Bruce Miller, who has pivoted to adapting “The Testaments” — are aware that some viewers see similarities between the fictional cautionary tale and reality.

I’ve joked with Eric that if people call the show a cautionary tale, then we really failed in our mission to be a cautionary tale because life is worse now than it was before.

Suddenly the show that might have been a cautionary tale became a reflection of our real world and our country, and it was a very different vibe.

We have failed miserably, if we were at all meant to be the cautionary tale, because enough people were not watching, listening and absorbing and thinking hard enough, in my opinion, about the dangers of not addressing the warning signs.