Spoiler alert: This post contains details from11.22.63episode Other Voices, Other Rooms.
Read at your own risk.
Who better to break down the adventures of Jake Epping than the woman behind it all, right?
Credit: Ben Mark Holzberg/Hulu
Thats why Bridget Carpenter, the showrunner of Hulus11.22.63, is writing weekly blogs.
Dear Constant Viewer,
I have a confession.
I was not on set.
I was in Los Angeles, firmly ensconced in 2016, in the edit room with Kevin MacDonald.
But thats not what I need to confess.
Because, Constant Viewers, I am a lindy hopper.
(You heard me, SWING DANCE CAMP.
Dancing is life, Stephen King writes, and its true.
James Franco took dance lessons for weeks between scene setups, no less.
Sarah Gadon already knew how to lindy.
We had a gym full of teenagers and Little Brown Jug cued up and ready to play.
And the resulting scene is one of the more thrilling and romantic time-travel moments Ive ever seen.
Bitter, party of one?
Im sorry to start the blog with this rant.
Obviously Im still not over it.
…Sorry, where was I?
Right, episode 3!
This is the episode where Jake settles in and has to truly live in the past.
Like it or not, hes in.
And so is Bill Turcotte.
Bill, Bill, Bill how we writers loved you!
It must have been a tremendous relief to have a friend a brother with whom to share his plans.
In this episode, we begin to see what it takes for Jake to maintain two lives.
Essential not to be seen.
Essential not to be known.
Not only because of Lee but because of the Past.
AND this is the episode that sees the return of Sadie Dunhill.
When we saw her in Dallas way back in the pilot… she was Sadie Clayton.
Things change in two years.
How is this going to play out, I wonder?
Theyre both characters who Jake attaches to despite Als warning about getting close to people in the past.
This was an episode where a lot happened, lets just say that.
And Lee Harvey Oswald returns to America after having defected to Russia.
And heres our old friend George de Mohrenschildt!
As I said, Constant Viewer a lot happened.
That put two directors on the same set at the same time: Fred Toye and James Strong.
They each threw GIGANTIC TANTRUMS that the other was trespassing on my set and had to be pulled apart.
Look at these two.
They were so gentlemanly it was boooooring.
George McKay, who played Bill Turcotte, stayed in vocal character offscreen, keeping his Kentucky accent.
When the shoot ended and we heard his British accent again, it was startling.
How to make that crawl space as disgusting as possible and yet still a viable shooting space?
This is one of Production Designer Carol Spiers most underappreciated sets.
Constant Viewers, have you been noting any changes in the title sequence?
Do tweet me any of the Easter eggs you may be finding, or your conspiracy theories.
Until next week, Constant Viewers,
Bridget
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