From showrunner Krister Johnson, the new Netflix murder-mystery comedy series Murderville revolves around all the familiar police tropes audiences know and love — with an improvisational twist.
I just thought the original show did a brilliant job of creating a framework and a narrative around which to hang these improvised moments that would allow truly unexpected things to happen, but always have sort of guardrails up to move along in a compelling story. So I met with Will's company, I told them that I would love to do it and I had some ideas about things I might change from the original.
You mentioned having the story pitch in hand when you were shopping it around, before it landed at Netflix. Terry Seattle's character and backstory and the cold case that haunts him — that was already planned out? JOHNSON: I think "reward" is definitely the right word. We knew that with a show like this and with sort of big-name celebrities, there were going to be people who might see the show, look at the episodes and say, "Oh my God, Annie Murphy, I'm going to start there." And we didn't want them to be lost. We didn't want them to be at a disadvantage or not know pieces of the story. So the serialized part really is a bonus. It's added value.
JOHNSON: The truth is that we had no idea what kind of level of guests we were going to be able to get from the show. Especially with a first season, we could show people the British version, but it's a very different vibe, so we just weren't sure. Will and Conan [O'Brien] know each other very well and are friends and I think Will reached out to him to say, "Hey, I'm doing this show. It'll be fun. It'll take two days.
At that point, it really became about the best moments within those scenes and how to tie those various moments together. Because we would do no more than two takes of any scene, and we would generally use take one as far as the guest experience. By that, I mean the cameras were on the guest for that first one because we wanted their natural reaction to it. We wanted their unprepared-in-any-way response to the situation around them.
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