

“The music producer on my songs, this guy, Stelios, he works with incredible artists like SZA and MIA and somehow got saddled with me as Xavier on this one. “They really surrounded us with the best people where we couldn't fail,” Dave Franco shared, who plays the self-absorbed Xavier. Although both Ben and Dave Franco were given some assistance through a vocal coach and choreographer. “Literally, a week later when it was time to record the song, Chris texted me and said, ‘Hey, do you know how to sing? Do you know how to sing or dance?’”, Ben Schwartz laughed. For Ben Schwartz, his email explained the show’s premise and genre changes, with a not that his Yasper’s episode would be a musical.

That’s why all the characters' names start with A, B, C, D, W, X, Y, Z… Aniq, Brett, Chelsea, Danner, Walt, Xavier, Yasper, Zoe.”Ĭasting those roles was as simple as Chris and Phil thinking about who they’d like to see in the role and sending them a message. “ As we picked genres for each person, then we had to adjust everything, and adjust our characters to fit into the world of that style.” The co-writer and executive producer also revealed a fun fact about the characters’ names. “We were sort of looking at each character and thinking about how can we approach the style of what their worldview is,” Chris Miller revealed. Interviewing everyone in attendance, each episode retells the same story from a different point of view, causing the genre to continuously change. Detective Danner (Tiffany Haddish) is trying to find out who killed the famous pop star Xavier (Dave Franco) during a 15-year high school reunion afterparty at his Bay Area mansion.
