Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Deep Sleeper: Newsarama talks to Ed Brubaker about Sleeper "Season Two," which debuts in June:

"One of my favorite things about episodic fiction is the time that passes between events. On The Wire -- which is the best TV show ever made, in my opinion, about a year passed between seasons, in the timeline of the show. You got to see where everyone was and what their new status quo was and that was cool. It allowed them to evolve as characters. The same thing happens on The Sopranos and Six Feet Under. Time passes.

"That's a cool thing, because it allows you to give each Season an arc or theme of its own. With Sleeper, the first Season is all about Holden's struggle to hold onto his humanity and what he thinks he is while living this other life. The next Season is about something else, and some secrets are revealed, plot threads that maybe no one even noticed were left dangling at the end of Season One. The biggest difference between Seasons One and Two is that Season Two is about the other characters -- Lynch and Tao -- as well as Holden."