BUPKIS: Judah Miller on the Big Season 1 Finale Swing
June 8, 2023 by Marisa Roffman
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As BUPKIS’ first season came to a close, Pete (Pete Davidson) found himself in a rough place—and wound up in rehab.
In “Show Me the Way,” Pete grappled with possible recovery…and the show took a big tonal swing, by having the episode be primarily shot in black and white. Read more
BUPKIS: Judah Miller on Pete Davidson’s Semi-Autobiographical New Peacock Series
May 3, 2023 by Marisa Roffman
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BUPKIS, the new Peacock series debuting on Thursday, May 4 (with all 8 episodes dropping at once), is diving into the (semi-autobiographical) world of Pete Davidson.
“We wrote this show in a vacuum, during the pandemic,” showrunner Judah Miller explains to Give Me My Remote in the video below. (Note: This interview was conducted before the WGA strike.) “We wanted the show to have a boundlessness to it, and a sense of anarchy. It was important to us that there were no restrictions on what the show was allowed to do. It was really, at the end of the day, what made us laugh the hardest, or what made us feel the most, was sort of our guiding metric with that.”