![]() For Colin, it’s like there’s a sense of something creeping behind him. The shot, because of the way that it’s designed, allows for a sense of discovery, not just for you, the viewer, but for us watching it on the day. Are you looking at his eyes? Are you looking at his mouth? I remember at one point before we got to the scene, and I was in my head, ‘Okay, well, if doesn’t nail the moment, it’s okay because I’ll CGI some kind of like effects - two expressions into one. And it really it’s like one thing at a time, but your brain is processing one thing and then the other. How do you perform that? The thing in my head was to see an image that was two things at once. Even if you knew for sure, what would that tell you?” I think he just smiled, like someone who got away with something. As we look directly into Michael’s eyes at the end of this journey, we believe it may be possible for someone to be guilty and innocent at the same time. Camera begins to push down and come around until you’re face to face with him. He considers the life he’s lived and the little remaining life he has yet to live. He sits alone in his room and alone with himself for the first time in a long while. ![]() Angled on the back of Michael’s head, Michael looks down at the photo of Kathleen on his bedside table. Note: this is the same image he woke up to in the very beginning of the series. “Michael places the photo of Kathleen - the wind blowing her hair, she’s standing in front of the Grand Canyon - on his bedside table. If you don’t mind, I mean, I can read you the way it was scripted. So it’s kind of like how to get back, how to do that loop was the trick. I always felt like the end of the show would end in that same bedroom. I figured out that the pilot would start off in his bedroom, him waking up that day. Then, as the years went on, it was like ‘Oh, well, there’s this there’s this Alford plea.’ So then trying to figure out how to tell a story where there were three endings. Then in 2011, he was out on a re-trial and there was almost a sense of like a happy ending, that there was this potential for a new life, for a second chance to prove his innocence and to put the family back together. Basically, in 2008, when I saw the first iteration of the documentary, he was in prison for life. The whole journey for me has been like trying to figure out how to tell the story. How did you decide where to end the story? It sits with you and you are thinking about it for a while after.”īelow, Campos lays out how he and his team approached the final episode knowing that they’d never be able to give the audience the answers they desperately want. ![]() “I really love the end of Episode 8, because it’s one of those endings where you feel something, I think. “You have to accept that there are aspects of this story that you just won’t ever know,” Campos told TheWrap. How ‘The Staircase’ Showrunners Dramatized a Notorious True-Crime Case: ‘It’s Always Two Things at Once With Michael Peterson’
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