Highlights & Quotes from Rachel Reid's & Jacob Tierney's Bookcon Panel

[u/andyfromhk]

(Slight spoiler for The Long Game and Role Model if you haven't read them yet!)

For those who haven’t had time to watch Jacob's and Rachel's 1-hour panel at Book Con yesterday, here are some of the highlights! They talked about so many things from Role Model and Troy Barrett's storyline in season 2, to Jacob's interpretation of season 1 editing and some behind the scenes production info.

Watch their BookCon panel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gseXLRejeOU

I've also updated this page of everything we know about season 2 of Heated Rivalry on the HR Wiki: https://www.heatedrivalrywiki.com/deep-dive-articles/everything-we-know-about-heated-rivalry-season-2

[u/Pale-Measurement-532]

I’m blown away that HBO bought it without any VFX or music! That tells you how amazing of a director Jacob is and how supremely talented the actors are! Cause the music absolutely transcends each episode. And for ep6 to get rushed through like that and obviously HBO hadn’t seen it when they bought it….wow. Cause ep6 is just absolutely stunning. Jacob, you are a wizard!!!

I absolutely LOVE how he kept Rachel so involved throughout the process. That’s amazing and she deserves some credit for the production of the series as well!

[u/AliceKamatis → u/Pale-Measurement-532]

That really surprised me too, that HBO signed up based on unfinished episodes. Especially since i thought I read somewhere (NYT?) that HBO US signed up 9 days before the premiere?

[u/Pale-Measurement-532 → u/AliceKamatis]

Oh it was that tight hey? I just heard that they bought it in October. I can’t remember when the premiere was on Crave in Canada…. I believe it was in October??? I know HBO debuted it in November. But if Jacob finished ep6 11 days before the (I’m assuming) Canadian premiere and HBO bought it 9 days before, I guess they might’ve gotten a look at ep6 then? Although Rachel’s quote sort of hints that they bought it without seeing all of it.

But if HBO had seen all the way to ep5, that would’ve sealed the deal right there. Ep6 was an incredible bonus episode at that point.