THR is InConversationWith RMcElhenney of AppleTVPlus’s ‘Mythic Quest’ to discuss how he’s rethinking his workplace comedy in a time when many offices aren’t reopening. ad Listen to the podcast here:
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collaborators Charlie Day and Megan Ganz, it briefly resumed production a few weeks into California's stay-at-home orders by arming its large ensemble with 40 iPhones. "I just wanted to get people paid," McElhenney says. "But how could we do that and create an episode that didn't just feel like we slapped it together for the sake of doing it — that we could deliver something that we didn't have to apologize for the quality?"
From pitch to delivery, it took McElhenney and company three weeks to make the episode. And despite the constraints of filming remotely and the frequent reliance on shared screens, the episode's polished aesthetic does manage to stand out from so many of the remotely shot specials that have aired since the COVID-19 pandemic ground Hollywood to a halt.
Different also means rethinking his show moving forward. McElhenney had just started filming season two ofwhen production was forced to stop. And given the fact that the series has already acknowledged the lockdown, he knows there's no turning back. Future episodes will interrogate what a workplace comedy might look like now that workplaces are poised to change dramatically. and how he's examining ideas of masculinity on his comedies.
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