— Listen, I know. The world doesn’t, um, necessarily need another television show and if we’re gonna pursue it anyway, we should at least have a couple of worthwhile goals. For Bound, we’ll try to first and foremost offer a really fun time - to be something you’d like to hang out with. Also, we’ll take the setup of characters with different backgrounds, resettling in a new place, as a chance to get curious about how and why things [in society] are and consider other ways they could be. … Below, find two, big inspirations for the stated series goals.
1. On trying to offer a good time.
— When I was a kid in the ‘90s we had one television (and thankfully no devices) and when it was my mom’s turn to watch something, she would always go to the Turner Classic Movies channel. The first, non-kids movie I can remember sitting through was Some Like It Hot, the 1959 classic directed Billy Wilder. In the movie, two musicians (Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis) go on the run after witnessing a murder in Chicago. They end up in Florida, where things get more complicated with Marilyn Monroe. It is the standard of a fun time, and having seen it so young and so many times, it’s deeply influential here. Overall, Hot might have a sillier tone than So Far Bound, which would like to have more moments of drama, quiet and so forth; however, always from a foundation of levity or joy.
2. On hoping to explore, at large.
— Two years ago I finally tackled the beast: 100 Years of Solitude. I still don’t know if I like it or not but it’s nonetheless a memorable book. It recounts the lives of the Buendia family and of the town of Macondo. It tracks the discovery, settlement and cycles of a people and their new homeland, pondering about things from the spiritual to the societal along the way. In Bound, though the place they end up is already founded, it’s exotic to the passengers and thus ripe for discovery and then building. With the wide array of characters in Bound (as there is in 100 Years) there will be much opportunity to explore in both funny and dramatic ways how different people/cultures become what they do, and to examine how places and things get discovered and occupied, now and in the past.