“There’s the old show tune-type, there’s ‘Hamilton’-type stuff, there’s ‘High School Musical.’ We decided that each of the songs was a different type of musical.” “We had a long discussion about there’s a lot of different types of musicals,” Miller says. “And how can we make a virtue of imagining this as a series, so that it’s not just making it longer - it’s introducing possibilities.”Īniq’s best friend Yasper (Ben Schwartz) is the protagonist of the third episode, and as an aspiring rapper, his story is told as a musical complete with three original songs: hip-hop track “Two Shots,” spirited pop number “Yeah Sure Whatever” and wistful ballad “Three Dots From Stardom.” The differing styles of the songs first emerged from a conversation about visual plans with cinematographer Carl Herse. “It’s also, how do we make this harder on ourselves?’” Lord laughs. It was like, how do we push this even farther? And the characters’ personalities lent themselves to things like rom-coms and action movies and musicals.” So the genre stuff came later in the development.
“If we took the time to see the world through their eyes, we might see them as more than just a two dimensional caricature of a person. It was really a show that ended up being about empathy, and how we don’t know what another person is going through,” Miller tells Variety. “The more different each person’s point of view became, the funnier and more interesting the show became. When he and Lord began toying with an episodic format instead, they had the idea for a multi-genre project - what they call a “comedic ‘Rashômon’” - where each character gets their own episode, and each episode is expressed using the conventions of a different genre. Miller first imagined a murder mystery set at a high school reunion over a decade ago, but he’d originally pictured it as a feature film.
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