There's a good interview on GQ's website with Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams about the show: [link]
The part that absolutely cracked me up about Storrie (bold text mine):
Nothing in Hollywood is ever a sure thing—not even a sequel to a movie that earned 11 Oscar nominations. After Folie à Deux’s release, a short write-up on Storrie appeared in Variety. But then, well, nothing. In no particular order, he shot a low-budget thriller in Romania, moved in with his older sister in Los Angeles, came to idolize David Lynch, and took classes with The Groundlings before falling in with the experimental clown scene on the east side of Los Angeles.
Just how close did we come to having a method acting-driven Joker in real life before hockey slash saved the day?
That's a Joker movie I would watch
The experimental clown scene?? That’s a scene? Wow.
What an absolutely iconic way to hit rock bottom before making it big in gay Canadian TV.
I think that magical sentence just unlocked my third eye
The timeline weirdness in the Scott/Kip story is bugging me -- what were they doing for those three years? -- but other than that, I thought that the last two episodes in particular were really well done, after already enjoying the beginning of the season.
I'm glad they got renewed for a second season, and one interview mentioned the possibility of a third, but I'm curious how they'll split up the remaining books if a third season is still uncertain. Also, I kind of hated how things got resolved in The Long Game, but I'll reserve judgment on the show version until I see it -- I thought the small changes between the book and the show in this season were good choices that added to the story. (Other than the Scott/Kip timeline thing.)
If they're confident about having 3 seasons total, I could see splitting up TLG into 12 episodes and giving some of that time to the stories in the other books. (And by the other books I mostly mean Role Model.)
But only if they are VERY confident of getting renewed, because the fandom would not survive if we ended S2 on a
plane incident
cliffhanger.
(That said, my reading of "signed for three seasons" is that three seasons is a pretty standard streaming contract and that it's less about the promise of renewing the show and more about locking in actors' salaries while they don't have any negotiating power.)
I do wish this season had more episodes. And that more than one more season was confirmed. I like the idea of the long Shane/Ilya story with everyone else's folded in chronologically but I think it would be easier to pull off with more overall time to tell it
I didn't hate how The Long Game ended but I have some reservations. Which would make it really interesting to have the show go on past the books (potentially the opposite of Game of Thrones)
Yes to all of that, Jess. I shudder to think.
