From Witcher to Watchmen, everything you need to know about the newest sci-fi/fantasy series hitting your television soon:
Taken together, these shows call to mind the attempts to clone the success of “Lost” with puzzle-box dramas at that show’s peak, or the boom in period soaps after “Mad Men.” But those copycat moments yielded no hits, in part because the imitators were so brazenly borrowing from the respective “Lost” and “Mad Men” toolkits. Those following in the footsteps of “Thrones” in the months ahead share a visual ambition, or at least a capacity to visually dazzle, with their Emmy-winning forerunner.
But for those themes to land on a grand scale, the series need to find their audience — even the uninitiated — and convince them that the story will be comprehensible. A superhero only gets “super” when millions thrill to his or her exploits; a fantasy derives its power from the millions who share it. And as punishing and expensive as it is to create a fantasy series that looks real, it’s worthwhile only when it reaches people.
“There was certainly awareness on my part that this thing is scaled much larger than ‘The Leftovers,’ and that the expectations are scaled much larger as well.”Today’s high-expectation, resource-intensive genre-TV game is more demanding than even the work of TV veterans. “This is definitely the most challenging thing that I have ever done professionally,” Lindelof says. “I feel like I learned a lot. I’m not entirely sure what I learned, but I did learn a lot.
For her part, Schmidt Hissrich has faith that the audience will climb aboard. “I get asked a lot if this is going to be the next ‘.’ My response is always the same: No, this is ‘The Witcher,’ and I think ‘The Witcher’ is going to stand on its own. But what ‘Game of Thrones’ did is open the door for all audiences to realize that fantasy could be for them too. It’s not just for kids who grew up playing Dungeons and Dragons.”moviegoers anymore.
Finding the way to that confidence is a work in progress. “We really didn’t have a clue about how we were going to do Episodes 7 and 8 when we were doing Episodes 1 and 2,” Tranter says of “His Dark Materials.” Describing her protagonist’s journey deeper and deeper into an Arctic wasteland the show constructed in an industrial shed in Wales, she notes, “We got more and more and more pushed beyond our production comfort zone as we went through.
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