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New Year’s, there’s something that always feels ominous about the countdown, the wish or the hope that the new year is going to be different. We tried to sort of approach it with that tension, what we know Rue’s going through, Jules, Cassie, Maddy, Nate. A party’s a sort of easy way to do that.

We wanted to create this montage of a state of emotion for all the characters to catch up where we are emotionally with them, and we just wanted to build this tableau of our main characters for season two.

We came up with this idea of telling it almost in these sorta snapshots, these portraits, these fleeting moments, and so we killed all the lights and put this giant 20K spotlight on that we would just flash for a second. And it’s almost as if you were going back and looking at photos and you came across a shot of someone at a party. — Sam Levinson + Marcell Rév (Director of Photography)

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