>>108325116Daron Nefcy ran out of ideas by the end of season 2. She did not expect the show to be renewed, and planned to convince the suits to let her wrap the show up with a TV movie called 'Battle for Mewni'. This would have been much like what aired as 'Battle for Mewni', except with some added scenes for closure. Unfortunately, the network decided to offer to renew the show for another season. Nefcy was reluctant to continue the show, however one of her more ambitious underlings, a woman named Sabrina Cotugno, was determined to take the reins of the show and use it to promote the issues she felt passionate about, including her trust issues with men, her insecurities about her mixed race background and hostility towards white privilege, her lesbian interest in butch brown women (which can be traced back to a fling she had in Paris, where she was trying to 'find herself' after being infected with an STD by her cheating boyfriend), and so on. Cotugno had discovered a video of Daron Nefcy masturbating while she watched her husband, Bobby Miller, having sex with another woman. She let Nefcy know she had the file in a not-too-subtle way. Although Nefcy's own career was going well, her husband was just beginning to catch big breaks in Hollywood as a director, and also any sort of sexual scandal would jeopardize her career as she worked on a children's show owned by the PR-sensitive Disney corporation. Nefcy agreed to allow Cotugno to continue the show as the 'shadow showrunner'. The credit would not reflect her having an inordinate amount of control over the show, which Cotugno didn't care much about since her main motivation was using the show to promote her own pet social causes and work out her personal issues. Cotugno also encouraged her friends on the staff, who were not necessarily the most talented people there, to step up with their own input. The show suffered greatly. Everything that had once been fun was replaced by Cotugno using the show as therapy.
