In August 2011, HBO acquired rights for series development with Perrotta attached as writer/executive producer shortly before the book's publication. Lindelof had reportedly been a fan of Perrotta's earlier novels and had first learned of the book from a positive review by Stephen King in The New York Times in August 2011. In June 2012, Lindelof announced he would be developing the series alongside Perrotta. In February 2013, HBO ordered a pilot and, in September, ordered a ten-episode first season. The series is the first series HBO acquired from an outside studio that it did not produce in-house. In June 2013, casting announcements began. For the first season, Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Liv Tyler, Chris Zylka, Margaret Qualley, Carrie Coon, Emily Meade, Ann Dowd, Michael Gaston, Max Carver and Charlie Carver were cast. For the second season, Janel Moloney and Regina King were cast. For the final season, Scott Glenn were cast. Principal photography took place in Mapleton, New York for season one. In April 2015, it was reported that the setting for the second season would shift from Mapleton, New York to a small town in Texas. For season two, principal photography took place in Austin, Texas. In early December, 2015, HBO confirmed via their official twitter account the show was renewed for the third and final season. In June 2016, the production moved to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, where it filmed the remainder of the series and completed post-production. For the final season, principal photography took place in Melbourne.
The series stars Theroux, Brenneman, Eccleston, Tyler, Zylka, Qualley, Coon, Meade, Dowd, Gaston, Max and Charlie Carver, Moloney, King, and Glenn. The nice thing is that, despite its large scale story, the series remains a character based story, keeping us interested in the people and uncovering the mysteries of the show through their own tales. This largely thanks to the strong performances given by the cast.
The show's writers seem to delight in exploring the limits of emotional endurance, the darkness of human nature, and the challenge of a community to govern itself in the face of a messy tangle of disparate dispositions, ideologies and flaws. But there's something refreshing about a network TV show that trusts the mental rigor of its audience instead of dumbing everything down to the lowest common denominator. Sometimes it's good to be a little lost. Satisfying in a sentimental way, the eagerly anticipated finale was neither as challenging as the series at its best, nor as convoluted as the series at its most frustrating. And it left enough questions to keep the watercooler humming for weeks. The wrinkle in time that the show's sensational season finale laid on us was smaller and more human than our fantasy-soaked imaginations envisioned, and yet it was every bit the capture-the-imagination mindquake we were hoping for.
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