The second season of undone It premiered on Amazon Prime this past weekend, giving fans the chance to watch this one-of-a-kind adult animated series. The show, which uses rotoscoping techniques to create its animation, explores the fluid nature of reality through its central character, Alma (Rosa Salazar), who discovers she has a new relationship with time after suffering a near-fatal car accident. In the second season, Alma uses her powers – as well as those of her sister Becca (Angelique Cabral) – to unravel the secrets behind her family.
One of the driving forces behind undone She is Kate Purdy, who served as co-creator, writer, and executive producer on both seasons. Purdy, who previously worked on projects such as Bojack Horseman And recruit, brings a unique creativity that shines throughout the series. in honor of undoneFor the first time in the second season, ComicBook.com She got a chance to chat with Purdy about her genre-bending work on the project, what she hopes fans will take away from the new episodes, and much more. Spoilers for season 2 of undone lurk below!
Fan response
ComicBook.com: How did you feel seeing the fans’ response to Season 1 and the reactions people had?
Kate Purdy: I mean, it felt great. It was great to hear all the really smart and thoughtful feedback. A big part of the job of this show is the conversation with the audience, because it’s an open show with interpretation, so we mean the audience comes in and is an active player in it. One of my greatest experiences has been that I have a group of married friends, a couple. They watched the entire series together. Finally he turned to her and said, “She’s a shaman!” She turned to him and said, “She’s crazy!” Two people who love each other very much and are raising a child together can watch the same show, and eventually come up with a different interpretation, which is exactly what we’re looking for. right?
That we open up the dialogue, the conversation about how we all perceive reality, how each of us actually brings our own truth into every situation, and this can always change and change based on experience, how open-minded we are, or how close we think. And maybe those conversations will open, hopefully, open up more minds to see that the truth is actually kind of outside of all of us. It’s a vital interaction of all our realities and it can shift and change and flow, and we can kind of build that awareness together toward greater goods, perhaps.
pandemic
What is the impact of the epidemic on the writing of the second season? Watching it, a lot of the familial and traumatic aspects were very different than when the first season came out. I was curious, from a conceptual standpoint, how that works for you.
It was actually really a coincidence, because we wrote a file [second season] Before the pandemic, then when was the pandemic filmed. I know that for the actors, they brought a lot of that feeling of isolation, and just the ability to work with each other, into their performances. I think you really feel it, that we’re in this together to know ourselves. I also think that one of the main themes of season two is looking kind of outside to understand ourselves better, and then realizing that it’s an internal journey that has to happen as well. That the outward journey is a reflection of an inner journey that has to happen, is a very epidemic mentality, because we’re kind of trapped with ourselves, and we really have some time and space to really think about our lives, what it means, what we’re going to do here, how we’re doing it.
This is also one of the central drivers of Alma as a character this season – “I have to get back to my goal.” But then, of course, complication – is she doing this to herself? Because she wants to go on a fun adventure, she kind of pushes her sister and bullies her into doing it with her. Or is it really for the betterment of the family? Does this type of swing always happen, too? So yes, and interestingly, the themes really resonate with the experience of the pandemic.
family
I love the way season 2 explores the larger family dynamic – we get new family members, and we go back several different generations. What was the narrative drive behind the expansion abroad, and the inclusion of the larger family, in a way that is very different from the first season?
In Season 2, Alma and Becca embark on this journey to better understand themselves. And I think that comes from “Well, you didn’t get her wish, didn’t you?” And then, still not satisfied. Something is still wrong. This eats them. What is that? And instead of saying, “Maybe me,” she said, “Maybe everyone around me,” which I think is a really common experience! “This needs to change! You need to change! This should be better!”
So seeing her pull her sister on that journey, “Subconsciously, I’m trying to better understand myself, and why I’m the way I am, but I look to the past to find out.” Which I think we do, because that intergenerational trauma, those generations and past generations of people we don’t even know yet, their lives still affect us and are unseen in invisible ways. So to explore that through these characters, and try to unpack the past to get to the central puzzle of “What happens to my mom? But also what’s happening to us?”
Shark jump
Plus, I love how the stakes kind of escalated in Season 2, and the relationship with time travel and other people’s powers escalated. Did you guys have any moments writing about the season where you were worried about shark jumping? Or is it a case of the “sky is the limit” type?
No, we did. We wanted to make sure we kept it consistent. We wanted to make sure we always gave it back to the family and their relationship. I think the mother and the two sisters in particular become a central and important triangle in terms of those personal relationships. We had conversations in the room, “Are there a lot of powers that other people have, too?”
I think for me it’s about – I really think everyone is strong. Everyone has a direct connection to a global power greater than all of us. We all have abilities, whether we want to believe it or not. Everyone is rather remarkable in their ability to love, conquer, connect, and show off. I kind of believe all of that stuff. I think it plays well with the series, that we also play with genealogy and inherited things from traits. So the fact that [it] It could happen in this family, and there could be more people in the world with those abilities, it’s all paths to me on two levels, which we need to do always in the show, to make sure it can trace multiple paths.
So yeah, we were trying to be careful how we jump on the shark, because I think there’s a temptation, the way we can be very visible with the show, to make sure we have enough visible eye candy. This is really fun, and you feel like you’re in the fluid dream landscape of liquid reality, but you’re ingrained enough into real life stuff and personal relationships. But of course, there is always a temptation to do more imaginative things [we were] To make sure we have that balance and that we’re really entering from somewhere on Earth.
Alma decision
I wanted to ask about Alma’s decision at the end. I was curious, from a writing perspective, what do you think this decision represents?
I think she realizes she has to take care of herself. The thing that has been nibbling on her all season, because of which she cannot rest, is the hard work she has to do to take care of the self she has given up on. Just as Geraldine has given up on herself, there’s a reversal there. And [to how] Abandoned, Camilla abandoned her younger version of herself, who abandoned the child. And that her father abandoned her in the first season of the schedule.
I realized, and kind of regretted that life, lived this other life locked up and locked up, and I refused to look back. She cannot refuse to look back. As her grandmother did, so did her mother, and so did her father. She has to look at herself. So in fact, this outward reflection of trying to fix others is to show her what she should do. right? All these other stories, what you find in them, the mystery you haunt is actually the secret to not giving up on oneself. Self-love, diving into the solidity of those relationships and their relationship to self to do that self-healing. The final challenge.
favorite
What’s your favorite part about creating this season, and kind of escalating the story even further?
Seeing Rosa and Angelique playing each other out and enjoying each other, both on screen and off screen, is absolutely amazing. And also Constance had to deal with these two, and doing it with a lot of comedy and fun was really fun. And seeing them talk about the show now on the panels, and how much they love each other, family, and their characters is really fun for me.
emotions
As I said at the beginning of the interview, undone So open to interpretation, people can get away with completely different things, but what are you hoping for some kind of overwhelming feeling when people watch the new season?
I hope people find something in it that resonates with them, whether it’s sentimental or a family exploration. Or just a fun and interesting cartoon handcrafted by brilliant artists. I hope they can find something in it that resonates with them and gives them something to feel, and to feel strongly in a positive way about.
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The first two seasons of undone Available to stream exclusively on Prime Video.
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