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relied to create her television series about “a family’s tragedy becoming water cooler talk.”
Spellman shares she “listened to quite a few podcasts” as research into this world, but a fan of true crime, she also watched episodes of “48 Hours,” “20/20,” “Snapped” and “Making a Murderer” to get a feel for the way crimes are revisited in the media as well as the various tolls they take on family members of both victims and the accused.
“She’s a woman who is religious enough to have a prayer room built in her house. I wanted to see what that looks like if it’s put to a real test. She’s the only one that knows this, so she doesn’t have to re-explore this case — she could just keep her mouth shut — and the idea of, ‘Can you face yourself? Are you who you always thought you were if you ignore it?’ She can’t. And that’s what the eight episodes are about and where the journey takes her,” Spellman explains.
“It felt like that was the anchor we needed to build the season around. So once I made that decision, it was about how things would change with the podcaster driving the story,” Spellman explains, adding that the casting of Spencer also inspired some specific changes to Poppy. “I needed to make it specific to my leading lady and build a family around her that was different than what was in the book. We needed to know a lot more about her because she was the main character.
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