When mother-daughter showrunners Heather Conkie and Alexandra Clarke began working on “The Method House” with creator Marly Reed, they didn’t deliberately set their sites in the world of “Alice in Wonderland.” Instead, it came completely pure.
“As we started to take a look at this show and the concept, it became much clearer to us how strangely this all echoed the book, and we thought well, if it’s there, let’s use it. It’s the story of a woman who really falls down the rabbit hole into a totally different world and tries to understand what she’s seeing and her adventures there,” says Alexandra. Selection. With perfect comparisons, they began to bring bodily similarities and themes from the 1865 novel into the first season.
“After we went down that rabbit hole, we were in a cheap digital book store and the first books that were right there in front of us were ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘By the Trying Glass’. ,’ very close to each other”, remembers Heather. “We thought, ‘OK, this is an indication.’”
The Hallmark drama contains cheeky references to several other famous stories — everything from “Peter Pan” and “Narnia” to “Not Other Teen Film” (which also stars “The Method House” actor Chyler Leigh) — but it’s the comparison to “Alice” that viewers continue to notice on social media every week. The second season continued this theme, getting a little closer to the adventures of the sequel, “By the Trying Glass”.
This time, the producers and writers made an extra “concerted effort” to take a look at the second book, which they consider a “much darker version of ‘Alice in Wonderland’.”
“The way it all starts is her looking into a mirror in this different world and questioning what’s there and hoping it will take her back to Wonderland. Yes, but it is a wonderland that is backwards and backwards. Everything that’s good is unhealthy and everything that’s trending is bad and if you really look at Alice’s journey, especially during season 2, that’s exactly what happened,” says Alexandra. “We made a lot of effort throughout the season to make her look raw, which is exactly how Alice was in that book.”
Now, the show has been renewed for a third season — but Lewis Carroll didn’t write a third “Alice in Wonderland” book. However, the books will play a role, albeit a different one, in the next season.
“They are clearly an important part of the family,” says Alexandra. “I think what we’re going to try to do this season is look at both books as a whole and what to take away from them and who owns them. And their themes will still be a big part of our show.”
Planning for season 3 has already begun; in fact, they started brainstorming as early as the future after they wrapped season two. The second season finale airs on Sunday and left both producers “breathless”. Heather says the finale will “answer questions and push questions to be asked,” and notes that everyone on set was crying!
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the writers continued Season 3 without pause, thinking about how to implement the ideas they’ve had for years.
“Even when we were developing Season 1, Season 3 was kind of the light at the end of the tunnel,” says Alexandra. “So even back then, we already knew what this season was going to be like. Now it’s just a matter of… really sitting down and paying attention to the details of this. It’s a nice problem.”
Another problem is the number of different characters and timelines contained in the drama. While there’s no end point in sight — the mother and daughter agree they’ll keep doing the show until it ends well — they admit there’s a lot of story to keep straight.
“It’s a sophisticated gift,” says Alexandra. “I’m so grateful that we’re doing this together as mother and daughter, but also as co-showrunners. It’s a gift that needs two people. You probably need three, four or five. Each season is – especially this last season – three shows in one: a show from the 1800s, a show from the early 2000s and a show from the present day, all three with separate casts, separate wardrobe, separate every little thing. We want to keep doing this right and we don’t want to get lazy… We all fall down this rabbit hole and I can’t, I’m not ready to go back.”
With so many characters and alternate timelines, they also “talked about spinoffs,” many of which they call “ridiculous.”
“One of the unique things about our present, because the time travel side is, again, similar to ‘Wonderland’ itself, is that you’re there for a while, not too long, and each trip is unique. ,” Alexandra provides. “Every trip, something is different and in our world, you can’t stay in a single timeline for long. So there will always be something new and something different. And although clearly, our current day will always be our fixed one, the trips that Alice takes, the trips that Kat takes, they will always be to wonderlands and different worlds for very different reasons. ”
The Season 2 finale of “The Method Residence” airs Sunday, March 31 at 9 p.m.
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