TEACUP: Ian McCulloch on the Format-Busting ‘I’m a Witness to the Sickness’

After largely sticking with half-hour (ish) episodes for the first half of its run, Peacock’s TEACUP broke its own mold with episode 5, “I’m a Witness to the Sickness,” a 51-minute installment that shed light on the visitors who had been plaguing the series.

“Peacock was gracious enough to let us withhold information for half of a season, and they said, ‘Okay, enough is enough. You have to tell us some things,’” TEACUP showrunner Ian McCulloch explains to Give Me My Remote in the video below. “And that in mind, we wanted to not tell the audience what was going on. We wanted to show them. And the way you do that is you tell them a story.”

“And the way you tell a story, in this case, is you take us out of the experience of what’s going on on the Chenoweth farm, and you tell a story of what happened before that, what happened that led up to this,” he continues. “And it just came together in a way that felt right. But it also felt like—even though it feels like a very different 50-minute movie all its own—it still feels of the world. It does have a different mode of storytelling, which is a little more like back-country noir feeling to it, I think.”

Plus, Rob Morgan, who plays McNabb, shared his thoughts about filming the episode…

TEACUP, Thursdays, Peacock

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