They block-shot the season, so a director would do two episodes and another director the next two. We were editing as the dailies were coming in, and we edited episodes four and five at the same time. So four is the day in the life, and five is the bank heist… It gets a little confusing because you’re trying to focus on the story of both and make sure both feel polished. It was a tight schedule, but it was also interesting doing back-to-back episodes.
We shot it in New York and not another place to capture New York, and we wanted it to feel very much like a New York show. Being grounded in New York, the way New York is now… the old Hell’s Kitchen is no longer now. It’s regentrified and revitalized itself, so we wanted to capture that. That feeling like, ‘There are a few spots that retain the same old Hell’s Kitchen feel, but New York has changed, and it’s a different place”… We shot on the streets all the time, but we also had to build many sets.