'We believe the audience is more ready to delve into specific deaf-lived experiences' for Season 2 of ThisClose, say creators/stars Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman.
have a natural chemistry on screen that stands out even in real life—which is just part of what makes the series about deaf best friends so charming. Sitting down with Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman at the SeriesFest television festival in Denver, the pair naturally deferred to each other as they discussed the upcoming second season of the Sundance TV series.
Have they ever both had that moment of doubt at the same time? They looked at each other, smiling. “Not yet!” they signed in unison.owes a lot to a web series version produced by Stern and Feldman which made its premiere at thein 2017, leading quickly to it becoming a series for the digital platform Sundance Now. The most important thing the web series version did: give them confidence in the story they had to tell about these characters.
The tone, they noted, shifted from the web series to TV; while the shorter length lent itself to a lighter feel online, going to a half-hour format gave them more opportunity to take things darker. “I think people often see things as very binary, and think that deaf means there’s no sound,” Stern said. “Sound is still a part of deaf people’s lives. It’s just interpreted differently: Michael’s perspective and then Kate’s perspective, just individually, are very different. And so there’s something very subtle about their own experiences. But then going into Season Two, we already have a roadmap and so we can really take it further.
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