How Netflix series Midnight Asia explores nightlife despite pandemic

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Joe Evans managed to do something quite remarkable. He made a TV show about after-hours nightlife around Asia at a time when most Asian nightlife was shut down. “One of the things that has always struck me when travelling and filming around this region is how vibrant the cities are at night,” says Evans, executive producer of Midnight Asia, which...

Joe Evans managed to do something quite remarkable. He made a TV show about after-hours nightlife around Asia at a time when most Asian nightlife was shut down.

“We could have done a show just on the guy hanging out in his car driving across Tokyo at night, or the graffiti artists in Taipei, or the Bangkok theatre troupe [doing traditional performances in Marvel superhero costumes], but as we developed the concept, we realised we’d hit on something quite special.

“We were already in production before the pandemic,” Evans recalls. “We had a few sleepless nights about how to deal with it. Then, it became clear we weren’t going to be featuring large-scale mass events. The storytelling shifted to more intimate settings where we could have a greater control over production safety.”

“I was able to fly to Tokyo, Seoul and Manila, and then there were others that we just couldn’t get into, like Taipei. But we had a great team there. Taiwan actually existed as this little bubble of normality for a long time, so that episode was one that kept moving as planned. And in the Mumbai episode, local director Kunal Kochhar acquaints viewers with his city’s best late-night street food, enjoyed by call centre workers ending their 3am shifts.

 

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