You probably know Walter White, Don Draper, and the inmates of Litchfield by name. But the people who actually put words in their mouths? Those names tend to blur by in a tiny white font at the end of the episode. So let’s slow those credits down. Here are 22 writers who quietly built the worlds, characters, and episodes you still think about long after the season ended—and who deserve to have their names lodged in your brain right next to the shows you binge on repeat.