So, I just had a ‘yikes’ moment reading notes from August 29, 2010 when we shot this episode.   It was bracing, then and now.   On top of the perennial last-minute production challenges, we were facing five more days of shooting with no one scheduled to record sound and all our leads coming to dead ends.  A key [...]

The Weather I didn’t write down the details of the weather for August 25, 2010, but I fear that everyone involved in the shoot has it branded on their brains: it was a 95 degree-plus, humid, NYC dog day.  I know this because everyday we shot in August of 2010 was record-breaking for heat and [...]

In November of 2007, shortly before Christine Cook and I were scheduled to shoot for the first time at the Union Square farmers market in New York City, Chris came down with the flu and called to postpone.  I remember my entire body gasping in relief: “NO PROBLEM!”  I shouted into the phone, giddy at the sudden reprieve.  [...]