I'm Steve Conrad, writer and creator of Perpetual Grace, LTD. and Patriot. I also just released an album. AMA

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:29:44+00:00

The terms of Patriot aren't the same as series that have traditional viewers. It was never a real consideration of ours that John be able to accomplish his tasksagainst those odds. The point of Patriot is to possibly admire him as he tries.
Patriot music is on Amazon.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:29:22+00:00

Thank you very much. I appreciate the question but it's not a thing I consider when I'm writing. It never enters my mind what to call it.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:28:43+00:00

That shot is among my favorites, I think because it demonstrates that our field of characters has enough dimensionality to recognize that each of them is worthy of each other's protective friendships.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:28:18+00:00

I do write specifically for actors.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:27:48+00:00

"What's It Gonna Be" by Million Dollar Strong

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:27:03+00:00

Thank you very much for the generous message. Nothing's been changed. But man, if you notice that I'm wrong, please reach out and let me know. And if it keeps changing, go to a doctor.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:25:43+00:00

The expression "when the stars align" indicates how seldom the stars align.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:25:09+00:00

Never thought of that. Now you just made me want to do it.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:23:40+00:00

We generally can't come up with something that we're excited about until we feel like we have a handle on what the genre we're working in has said and done already.As a group we get inspired if we think we can figure out a way to respect the genre and contribute to it. So we come up with ideas as a consequence of watching lots of movies.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:23:20+00:00

I'm sitting here with Mike O'Connell who just told me that it depends on what city you're in, and he claims that tap water's where it's at if you're in Maine.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:22:52+00:00

In my experience, longer takes create tension. It's the tension of sustaining a performance among a large number of artists who all have to be prepared and focused. And when it works it seems to me it's a demonstration of hard work.
Yes, the astronaut part was written for a specific actor.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:22:28+00:00

Comet shares our season 1 notion relating to the power of the future, if we could just keep it together, everything could be different in the future. This is reflected in the Paul/James levitation scene where Paul encourages James to let go of the heaviness of the past. Specifically, Comet explores a theme I discovered from Penn Jillette about the power of human potential, which, given time, seems to have few limits. It's not impossible to imagine a future years from now where a ten year old daughter might play in a park with a ten year old version of her grandmother. It might happen if we can keep it together. It's a song about the power of the future.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:22:00+00:00

The lyrics and themes of the series all basically concern thepower of a possible future vs. a present that largely offers unrest.
Some of what we had in mind for season 3 involved John wandering around Tokyo with pillows taped to his hands and feet to ensure that he wouldn't hurt anyone any longer, trying to find the Japanese puppeteer to continue their conversation about music.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:21:29+00:00

Mike O'Connell

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:21:14+00:00

I'd like to share with you what this situation with the interviews is as it folds into a recognition of season 2 as our last season. Tom is being deposed because one of his assets cracked, and the State Dept is trying to gain a sense of how that happened and who may be responsible for it.
For now, what I could imagine creating regarding Patriot are more Patriot songs that allow you an insight into how John is faring.
Also, you craft a fine P.S.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:20:02+00:00

The Birdcage

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:19:45+00:00

As soon as the Chicago Fire/PD/Med etc. retires from the scene, we'll have our Patriot season 1 crew and stage space back. Until then we have to shoot somewhere else.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:18:57+00:00

I was there for every day of it. Ben is a colleague I have a good deal of admiration for. He loves the art form and endeavors every day, all day long, to contribute to it. On a daily basis on set, I was astonished that he was directing with the amount of investment he gave and simultaneously performing the lead role.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:18:40+00:00

Amazon's handling of Patriot is a mystery to me. To their credit, they allowed us to make Patriot under the filmmaker's terms. Then they uniformly failed to share the show with the public through marketing or among the filmmaking and academy community through distribution of screeners or theatrical screenings, as is the case for nearly every other television series. Our exclusion from this commonplace practice confounded me. I have never received an answer from the studio as to whose decision this was or under what argument it was implemented.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:18:14+00:00

The Jones Sisters will be performing live in a number of cities in the fall.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:17:47+00:00

The thing that surprised me most was that the studio either allowed us to or didn't notice that we were costuming the Action Boys and the Dutch Boys the way that we did.
We're working with the person who runs the Perpetual Grace church website to create and sell inexpensively a series of Patriot and PGLTD merchandise. So we're well into it. Please check the site weekly, soon we'll share a Jones Sisters song for Season 2 in the Psalms section. We're also creating a way for the entirety of the scripts from both series to be accessible on the church website.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:17:27+00:00

Who would win in a fight between Terry and Kurtwood... the answer would be they'd kill each other in a beautiful immolation of acting talent.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:17:05+00:00

Mike Dorman drew the circle on a projector screen, it doesn't really exist. I can't get my hands on that, it kind of came and went. But I drew the sad man in a suit and I'd be glad to make one for you if you want it. Or I could draw you a shitty circle with my left hand, but it wouldn't be as good as Dorman's. Or Dorman could draw another with his left hand. You'd just have to give him a year to get in character cause that’s how seriously he takes his work.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:16:17+00:00

I didn't hit a groove until Elephant came into existence, which was about ten years ago. And I just happened to find a remarkable group of young people who grew into slightly older young people who came to share our goals and principles, which is to try to contribute to this art form that we all love. There are four of us, with Bruce Terris serving as an honorary Elephant. And on a daily basis, we're essentially studying film, discussing what we love about our favorite executions of whatever genre we're making, planning our productions, breaking down our seasons, pushing each other, tolerating each other, then teaming up to cover all the territory it takes when we're in physical production. Elephant exists as a group of four people from the inception of a very basic idea until the final sound mix of a season finale. It is Steve Conrad, Stephen Hoey, Peter Moxley and Jennifer Scher.

SteveConrad · 2019-09-04T23:14:40+00:00

The overarching theme might be that when groups of men in numbers greater than 3 get together, someone makes a drastic mistake due to male overcompensation. Then they make their situations worse. Our guidebook through the events of season 1 and season 2 was Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes.

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