Executive producers Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Anthony King break down season 2’s whodunnit.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the season 2 finale ofThe Afterparty, “Vivian and Zoe.”
CHRIS MILLER:We figured out the murderer first.
Tiffany Haddish in ‘The Afterparty’ season 2 finale.Apple TV+
And he was like, “That sounds pretty good.”
PHIL LORD:And he was like, “What?!”
And you were like, “Huh?
I didn’t say anything.”
This is the whole season.”
But that way everyone knew what they were trying to play the whole season.
It was a very complicated, complicated show.
This episode has some amazing cameos.
How did those come about?
Like, wait a minute, maybe she does make a movie!
And then it became about, oh, who would be fun to see in these roles?
MILLER:Wherever Zoe and Aniq go, people seem to die, so they may be cursed.
LORD:You never know.
Sets can be dangerous places.
And so the hope was that Reddit would figure it out but not too early.
They would have it solved by episode 7 or 8 rather than by episode 3 or 4.
And they basically did.
The hope is that people are surprised.
KING:My favorite theory out there is that Sebastian was trying to kill Roxana.
MILLER:And accidentally killed Edgar?
LORD:I like thata lot.
KING:It’s all there.
MILLER:He does say, “She never liked me.”
LORD:Roxana was never the killer though, she would need her own episode.
MILLER:Dead lizards tell no tales as they say.
I have a lot of friends who are just like, “I know what you’re doing.
I know what you’re doing.”
Do you guys have plans for a season 3?
You’ve done a party, a wedding is a funeral next?
MILLER:One wedding and a funeral, it’s called.
Do you have any idea what genres you’d want to do that you haven’t already done?
I don’t want to spoil anything in case it does happen.
So I feel like a lot of it was we push the genres a lot further in season 2.
All of it was kind of just more complicated in a hopefully satisfying way.
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
