‘Patriot Act’: Hasan Minhaj’s New Netflix Series Looks Different From Every Other Show on Late Night
With a title like “Patriot Act,” you might assume that the look of the latest Netflix show would revert to three basic colors. Host Hasan Minhaj had different ideas.
“Hasan from the get-go was like, ‘I don’t want it to feel like, you know, just a red, white and blue political palate. He wanted to open it up and make something a little bit more artistic and fun,” executive producer Shannon Hartman told IndieWire.
The final product that launched last Sunday (and is set for 29 more episodes under its first-of-its-kind deal for Netflix) looks a little different than the proof-of-concept idea that Minhaj self-financed. “Patriot Act” creative director Michelle Higa Fox recalls that the show’s art direction style went through about 10 different versions over the intervening year.
“We landed on a look kind of inspired by microfiche film, just because we thought that that kind of layering of...
“Hasan from the get-go was like, ‘I don’t want it to feel like, you know, just a red, white and blue political palate. He wanted to open it up and make something a little bit more artistic and fun,” executive producer Shannon Hartman told IndieWire.
The final product that launched last Sunday (and is set for 29 more episodes under its first-of-its-kind deal for Netflix) looks a little different than the proof-of-concept idea that Minhaj self-financed. “Patriot Act” creative director Michelle Higa Fox recalls that the show’s art direction style went through about 10 different versions over the intervening year.
“We landed on a look kind of inspired by microfiche film, just because we thought that that kind of layering of...
- 11/5/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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