Carol Rance

Carol Rance is a network executive at the studio that's just bought Sean and Beverly's British sitcom, and she's the one selling them on Hollywood's promises with a bright, unbothered smile. She's married to the network president, fluent in industry double-talk, and treats every disastrous creative decision as simply how things are done.

Perkins plays the corporate operator as neither villain nor pushover, just someone who has made peace with the machine and genuinely likes her job. The comedy comes from her total sincerity while delivering absurd notes and betrayals with the same breezy professionalism, which makes her both funnier and more unsettling than a cartoon exec would be.