Cooper and I are both from Carolina! We still had a bunch of her Julie scenes to shoot that we had been putting off (because they are later in the season and not in an office). So we decided to do it ourselves while home for the holiday. We’ve had experience shooting spec commercials together sans crew so we returned to our roots and despite moving slowly, got off a bunch of the scenes that bring Hank and Julie’s relationship to life.

Luckily, I didn’t even tempt myself with bringing the big harddrive and working on the show for the holiday. I left it all with Tim to spit and polish while we filmed these scenes. Instead, all my focus will be on these quick additions and allow us to start the new year with even less on our plate. It’s been an amazing 7 months – a lot to be excited and thankful for this holiday season. But I’m also soooo ready to just relax, drink and feel like a regular human being instead of a production zombie. Thank you for all your support and patience this year…the real fun will begin in 2010!

After a lot of head scratching and experimentation, it has become clear that the show needs a cold open to set up the whole bet. Originally, we met the boys their first week sleeping on the subway, but everyone we talk to wants to see the decision to “go homeless.” So I wrote a quick cold open that introduces us to the boys and Tim generously provided his apartment door for a location.

Today showed me what it would feel like if we were a real TV show. Friendly crew knows each other and has their rhythm down, fresh script delivered that week to everyone, great communication, brilliant work by all…painless. Today was a lot of pickups that have been bugging me in the editing room. But it helped that I was very specific about what was not working before that I needed in the new takes.

The winter season is inconvenient. I wish a bag of money had dropped out of the sky and let us shoot all this in the fall, but I have to let everyone break for the Holiday and come back in the new year for the remaining shots. WE ARE SO SO SO CLOSE. I know everyone is probably tired of hearing me say that, but seriously…20 scenes until Season 1 is wrapped! I swear if we get a second season, we will block out 2-3 weeks, get all the funding upfront and just shoot it all at once. But you live and learn…and keep in mind that a lot of webseries are only 6 or 7 episodes long…ours is 14! Who had two thumbs and is ridiculously overambitious? This guy!!!