{"id":35375,"date":"2021-04-15T09:04:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T09:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amplify.nabshow.com\/?post_type=articles&p=35375"},"modified":"2024-09-15T16:35:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T16:35:48","slug":"made-for-love-creating-a-romantic-hilarious-dystopian-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/articles\/made-for-love-creating-a-romantic-hilarious-dystopian-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMade for Love:\u201d How to Build a Romantic, Hilarious Dystopian Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cristin Milioti as Hazel Green in MADE FOR LOVE. Cr: HBO Max<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Based on the novel by Alissa Nutting, Made For Love<\/em> is a darkly absurd and cynically poignant story of love and divorce with a sci-fi twist. The comedy series, a Max Original currently streaming on HBO Max, follows Hazel Green (Cristin Milioti), a thirty-something woman on the run after 10 years in a suffocating marriage to Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), a controlling tech billionaire. Soon she discovers that her husband has implanted a monitoring device \u2014 the Made for Love chip \u2014 in her brain, allowing him to track her, watch her, and access her \u201cemotional data\u201d as she tries to regain her independence. Through the chip, Byron\u2019s able to watch Hazel\u2019s every move as she flees to her desert hometown to take refuge with her aging widower father Herbert (Ray Romano) and his synthetic partner, Diane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is Made for Love<\/em> science fiction or is it a romantic comedy? It\u2019s really both of those things, but \u2014 above all \u2014 the series is a sendup of Silicon Valley tech culture. \u201cThe problem with satirizing Silicon Valley is that the tech industry moves so fast and breaks so many things that it\u2019s impossible for filmmakers to keep up,\u201d Matthew Dessem<\/a> writes in his review of the series for Slate<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cYou can quickly verify this by rewatching The Social Network<\/em>: Received back in 2010 as a withering portrait of Facebook, the movie suggests that the company\u2019s fatal flaw has to do with misunderstanding the nature of friendship, which doesn\u2019t hit quite as hard now that they\u2019ve moved on to facilitating both QAnon and genocide. (Similarly, compare Silicon Valley<\/em>\u2019s 2014 pilot, which promised a light comedy about nerds with more money than sense, to its 2019 finale, in which the main characters almost destroy civilization.) You just can\u2019t outrun those guys, but as HBO Max\u2019s funny and surprising new show Made for Love<\/em> demonstrates, if you aren\u2019t trying to craft the definitive statement about humanity\u2019s relationship with technology, you can get in some good laughs along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

READ MORE: HBO\u2019s New Series Found a Better Way to Satirize Silicon Valley (Slate)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In her review for Mashable<\/em>, Angie Han<\/a> calls Made for Love<\/em> \u201cideal binge-watch material,\u201d noting that \u201cthe show doles out backstory and twists at just the right clip to keep you on the hook without either overwhelming you or losing you completely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The surprise of the series isn\u2019t its central premise, writes Han, but the fact that none of the characters seem quite as upset as one would think about the idea of someone implanting a tracking chip into their spouse\u2019s brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a stretch to imagine a version of this story that\u2019s played as straight-up horror\u2026 but Made for Love<\/em> leans more toward spiky satire,\u201d Han observes, with half-hour episodes that feel \u201cpositively breezy in comparison to, say, the heavy-handed pessimism of a Black Mirror<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ MORE: HBO Max\u2019s \u2018Made for Love\u2019 is a breezy ride through a digital dystopia (Mashable)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Cristin Milioti as Hazel Green in MADE FOR LOVE. Cr: HBO Max<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

No stranger to the Black Mirror<\/em> aesthetic, Milioti and Magnussen both appeared in the Emmy Award-winning \u201cUSS Callister\u201d episode of the hit dystopian series that paid homage to both Star Trek<\/em> and The Twilight Zone<\/em>. Milioti also starred alongside Andy Samberg in the recent breakout comedy feature Palm Springs<\/em>, directed by Max Barbakow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m attracted to things that can\u2019t be categorized,\u201d Milioti told Kevin Fallon<\/a>, senior entertainment reporter for The Daily Beast<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOf course, you could say the show is a dark comedy, or sci-fi-like. But I\u2019ve also never seen a relationship between a father and daughter portrayed this way, or divorce and a failing marriage portrayed this way. I love that it has this sneaky approach where you are watching this heightened sci-fi, dark-comedy world and suddenly you see yourself in it, or you see your family, or you see just how desperate we all are to connect sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Shows like Black Mirror<\/em> and Made for Love<\/em> \u201cpresent our increased reliance on technology and the whims of tech-company agendas as something to be horrified by,\u201d writes Fallon. But in Made for Love<\/em> \u201cthe tinges of horror and the big science fiction ideas are always balanced by surreal, riotous comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ MORE: The Story of a Brain Chip, Divorce and Ray Romano\u2019s Sex Doll (The Daily Beast)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with Saloni Gajjar<\/a> for AV Club<\/em>, showrunner Christina Lee, who most recently wrote and produced for HBO Max\u2019s darkly satirical Search Party<\/em>, discusses how the Made for Love<\/em> team were able to connect themes such as the dangers of technological advancement with the story of woman who is essentially trying to escape from a bad marriage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIn the beginning, we were talking a lot about the role of technology and how it plays into human relationships. Ironically, we were having these discussions pre-2020, and then we entered a year when we were relying almost entirely on technology for our interactions. So we talked about having this shortcut in how we all access and connect, and I heard a lot of people say \u2018I just want to Zoom\u2019 or \u2018I don\u2019t need to see people.\u2019 I\u2019m not that way. So our conversations were also about how technology is a temporary solution to loneliness; it doesn\u2019t take place of true human connections. It was interesting that it happened before shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe other big topic was marriages with different power dynamics. With that, typically women, they\u2019re entering a relationship where at first it may seem exciting to be with a powerful person\u2014but what strings are attached to that and how much do you have to give up to be in a partnership like that? We looked at a lot of famous people and relationships to pick up on clues. It informed a lot of what we wanted to write about.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, Lee hopes viewers see Made For Love<\/em> as \u201ca sci-fi show approached through a female lens,\u201d she says. \u201cWe had female directors like Stephanie Laing, Alethea Jones, and S.J. Clarkson, then there was Alissa and I. We all talked about the sci-fi genre, content we love, but what\u2019s missing from it and how this one can be different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ MORE: Made For Love showrunner Christina Lee on how the show fills a gap in the sci-fi genre (AV Club)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Noma Dumezweni as Fiffany in MADE FOR LOVE. Cr: HBO Max<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of Made for Love<\/em>\u2019s debut on HBO Max, SlashFilm<\/em>\u2019s Jacob Hall<\/a> spoke with Lee alongside director Stephanie Laing and writer\/executive producer Alissa Nutting, who also wrote the book on which the series is based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developing the series was a balancing act between sci-fi worldbuilding and employing romantic comedy tropes, Nutting explains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI think with tech and sci-fi, so often there\u2019s an emphasis on avoidance or even eradication of emotion and feeling, or even sensation, that it\u2019s all very serious and stripped down. When you think of robots, you don\u2019t think of laughter. Part of us really wanting to imbue this sci-fi story with emotion and warmth, we felt that humor had to stay a critical part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Cristin Milioti as Hazel Green in MADE FOR LOVE. Cr: HBO Max<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Beginning with Hazel\u2019s escape, the first episode drops the viewer directly into the story, an approach that was discovered during the editing process, Lee reveals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe had considered several different ways to start the show. What we knew that we wanted was to feel like you\u2019re on a ride right away and that there\u2019s a lot of information coming at you and this is exciting and you\u2019re seeing these different worlds and filling in the holes along the way. With that intention, I think in the editing room we really saw how we wanted to start the show and that sort of informed more of the writing and directing as we went forward because we were able to shoot a few episodes before we shut down for the pandemic. During that time, we went back and said, \u2018What\u2019s something we want to see here in the pilot episode that we now have the luxury of thinking of and writing and being able to go back and do that?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Caleb Foote as Bennett and Cristin Milioti as Hazel Green in MADE FOR LOVE. Cr: HBO Max<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Filming during a pandemic required more careful planning than ever, but the filmmakers were sure to make time to explore comedic moments. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing better than letting something play out, leaving the frame and coming back in and knowing, also, when to move the camera. When not to move the camera. When to sit still and take a breath. It doesn\u2019t happen by accident. It\u2019s very specific,\u201d says Laing, adding:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe shot-listed every single thing. We didn\u2019t make up anything on the day. We were very prepared going in, because I know with television your time is so limited. Especially shooting during COVID, we did ten hour days. So we had a plan and we really stuck to it. And then we have tremendous actors. I can\u2019t say enough about how much \u2014 we filmed something, but then in a wide, Billy or Cristin would improvise something and it\u2019d be amazing and we would sort of run with that. I would set up a shot around something that they did, which was really rewarding and awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

READ MORE: How the Hilarious, Chilling World of \u2018Made For Love\u2019 Came to Life (SlashFilm)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Cristin Milioti as Hazel Green and Caleb Foote as Bennett in MADE FOR LOVE. Cr: HBO Max<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

WarnerMedia originally ordered 10 half-hour episodes of the new series, but that number was whittled down to eight because of the challenges of filming during the COVID-19 pandemic. \u201cWe\u2019d shot a little over four episodes when we shut down on March 13, 2020. I remember that day very well,\u201d Lee recounts in an interview with Rachel Handler<\/a> for Vulture<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAnd then we had the benefit of having that footage to look at, and we learned so much from what our cast did with the characters. And during that time, Alissa and I went back and did so much rewriting. It\u2019s an unusual luxury: \u2018Here\u2019s what these characters are teaching us and we want to take them in a different direction.\u2019 And then we got back to shooting in October of 2020. It was anxiety-inducing leading up to it, but once we got there, we were so happy to be shooting, out of our homes, away from our families. It was a blast.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The book, Lee tells Handler, is very much focused on Hazel\u2019s internal journey, but the rewrites gave them an opportunity to expand all of the characters and their points of view. \u201cOne of the biggest changes was Byron. In the book, he comes across as the villain. In casting Billy, the two of us were very deliberate in wanting to understand the vulnerability of the Byron character. As misguided and controlling as he is, he does love his wife,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Byron Gogol as Billy Magnussen and Cristin Milioti as Hazel Green in MADE FOR LOVE. Cr: HBO Max<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ray Romano, in particular, brings a humanity to the role of Hazel\u2019s father that helps ground Made For Love<\/em>\u2019s more high-concept aspects. \u201cHe\u2019s such an incredible dramatic actor,\u201d Nutting comments to Handler:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe relationship between Herbert and Hazel is a prickly one; they\u2019re both very flawed characters who made mistakes and have failed each other in various ways. I knew it\u2019d be a complicated route, to chart the relationship between two stubborn characters who want, in their heart of hearts, to have a reconciliation and be close, but have already resigned themselves to the fact that it\u2019s never gonna happen. Ray is just capable of giving \u2014 he\u2019s so likeable. Even when his character is doing something frustrating, his performance is so meticulous. You always understand his motivation. It was one of those things where, when his name came up, there was this gasp. It\u2019s slightly unexpected but could elevate the role so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ray\u2019s humanity extends to his synthetic partner, Diane, whom he treats with tender and loving care even as the relationship renders him into the town laughingstock. \u201cWe also wanted to make sure that the doll, Diane, wasn\u2019t treated as a joke or a punchline,\u201d says Lee. \u201cThat was very important to us; she\u2019s not treated as such in the book, either. That went a long way with the casting of Ray. You see a real relationship there. You see why he\u2019s with Diane, and bringing humanity to that relationship was enhanced by casting Ray.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the genius things that our director, Stephanie Laing, and then our first AD, Lisa Satriano, did was whenever Diane was in a scene, they would change her head to an eyeline perspective so she seemed to be actively listening in the conversations, whenever they\u2019d cut over to her,\u201d Nutting adds. \u201cIt really added this element of feeling that Diane was one of the crew.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ MORE: Made For Love\u2019s Creators Talk Translating a Uniquely Weird Book Into Equally Weird TV (Vulture)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Ray Romano as Herbert Green with Diane in MADE FOR LOVE. Cr: HBO Max<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Diane\u2019s casting demanded a bespoke solution, Nutting explained in an interview with Kayla Cobb<\/a> for Decider<\/em>. \u201cI sat for a face casting so that the doll would be unique to our show and we would own the face, essentially, of Diane,\u201d she told Cobb. \u201cIf any objectification is occurring, it\u2019s me, someone who is very game in and down for the process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Made for Love\u2019s central, driving question is \u201cHow can I be loved?\u201d Nutting said, along with the choices people make to have their needs met:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI really researched a lot in terms of synthetic partners and people who make the life choice to marry a synthetic partner and all that goes into that. One thing that we really hope comes across in the show is this lens of curiosity rather than judgment, and kind of like a lens of understanding. Every single one of us makes these kinds of decisions in order to get our needs met. All of those decisions and all of those needs come from a really valid place.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was really important for us to not have Diane be like a joke,\u201d Lee emphasized during the interview. \u201cThat was both on screen and off screen. She was very much treated like a respected cast member. Probably the only hard night that we had was when we had to use our Diane double, who was not like the high-end doll and her head kept popping off. That was a tough thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ MORE: \u2018Made for Love\u2019s Creators Spill on the Wild Story of Casting Their Sex Doll (Decider)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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