Nathaniel Halpern (creator, Tales from the Loop) and co-host J. Holtham (Supergirl)
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.6 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Ben Blacker is joined by co-host J. Holtham (Supergirl) to talk to Nathaniel Halpern (Legion), creator of Amazon's new Tales from the Loop. They discuss how quickly Halpern cracked the translation of artist Simon Stålenhag's paintings, the tone of the show, building characters, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Forever |
| 0:02.0 | Dog |
| 0:04.0 | They write, they talk, and talk about what they write, tune in tonight, or whenever the time is right, it's the writer's battle with man blacker, and it's starting now. |
| 0:15.0 | Oh yeah! |
| 0:17.0 | And this is how a podcast starts. |
| 0:19.0 | We're doing it. |
| 0:20.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:22.1 | Our guest today is Nathaniel Halpern, who is the creator, writer, executive producer of Tales from the Loop, which is on Amazon right now. |
| 0:31.8 | You all can watch it. |
| 0:33.1 | Nathaniel, thank you for being here. |
| 0:34.9 | Great to be here. |
| 0:36.1 | And with me, back for more. |
| 0:38.8 | Is Jay Holcomb? |
| 0:41.0 | I am glad to be back. |
| 0:42.4 | It's a pleasure. |
| 0:43.4 | I wanted Jay to ride shotgun on this one, |
| 0:47.2 | because as much as I like the series, |
| 0:49.5 | he knows tales from the loop, |
| 0:50.9 | the paintings, the game, all the stuff. |
| 0:53.2 | And we were talking about it on Twitter, and I thought it would be great to have you come in and ask some of the questions that my shallow knowledge does not cover. |
| 1:01.5 | Yeah, no, when I heard about the show, Amazon sort of dropped it with a little fanfare. |
| 1:09.3 | It was sort of like a rock in the pond |
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