Daveed Diggs & Rafael Casal On How ‘Blindspotting’ Season 2 Finds Miles’ Family Overwhelmed By The Prison Industrial Complex
15.04.2023 - 03:05
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SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the first two episodes of Blindspotting Season 2 on Starz.
It’s been nine months since Miles (Rafael Casal) and Ashley (Jasmine Cephas-Jones) exchanged their prison nuptials in the Season 1 finale of Blindspotting, and it hasn’t gotten any easier to navigate life without him.
The Season 2 premiere of the Starz series finds Ashley anxiously trying to execute the perfect birthday party for their son Sean. He’s turning seven, and it’s the first birthday he’s celebrating without his dad. But, there’s a beacon of hope, as Ashley and Sean’s first weekend visitation with Miles is approaching. Everyone keeps telling Ashley she should be happy, so why is she miserable?
“No one is ever happy when they’re telling you how happy you should be,” Casal, who also executive produces the series with Daveed Diggs and serves as showrunner, told Deadline.
Matters are only made worse when her mother-in-law Rainey (Helen Hunt) asks if she might be able to take Ashley’s place at the second weekend visitation to see her son. The idea that Miles’ family could even spend the weekend with him is a privilege that most inmates and their families across the United States don’t have. But, as Casal explained, it presents its own set of challenges, because “a prison system designing a machination for families to stay together is fundamentally going to be flawed.”
While Season 1 tacked the immediate aftermath of Miles going to prison, Season 2 aims to focus on how this family is going to weather through the long haul of his five year sentence at San Quentin.
Casal and Diggs spoke with Deadline about crafting Season 2 with that in mind, as well as how they shaped the story around the outstanding Season 1
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