KALEY CUOCO:
and I was there from the beginning.
Are you ready?
All right!
So, I kind of felt like,
"Oh, my god, if this works,
Let's go.
DIRECTOR: Okay, let's roll, please.
CREW MEMBER: A, mark.
But if it doesn't work,
this is all going to be my fault.
(LAUGHS)
♪ (CASUAL MUSIC PLAYS) ♪
After the success of season one, I am not gonna lie,
I was terrified to do a season two.
I only want to do it if we can make it better and bigger,
and once you figure out what that story was gonna be...
First, I was like, "Are you fucking kidding me?
How are we gonna do this?"
I'm doing this whole "trying to be a good person" thing.
It's hard.
After season one premiered,
it was a little bit of a shock how well received the show was.
I feel like it had a very satisfying ending,
but we had left little pieces
to play with going into season two.
For me the challenge was,
"What else can we show the world about Cassie?
What else can we show the world about Kaley?
CASSIE: Well, I used to be the life of every party.
Guess eventually, you gotta just like grow up,
and be an adult, right?
Ya think?
KALEY:
The amount of conversations we had as our creative team...
I mean, hundreds maybe?
Possibly a thousand?
So, it was a lot of questions like,
"What do we want to get into?"
And obviously, the answer is recovery,
because we saw Cassie
take her first baby step towards recovery
in the finale of season one.
We catch up with her one year later,
and it really feels like she's radically changed her life,
but the very first thing she tells us is...
I moved to LA.
Started dating this great guy, Marco.
Picked up a part time job.
What are you involved in, Cassie?
CASSIE: Okay... okay.
I'm an asset for the C.I.A.
(LAUGHS)
A lot of the excitement and charge that she got out of
being a party girl and being an addict in season one,
have been sort of reassigned
into this new position of being a C.I.A. asset.
She gets sent to Berlin on a case.
And has to follow this mark around,
and of course, she always gets a little overly involved.
It seems like it's working out for her.
She certainly seems confident that it's working out for her.
And then, the reason the show exists
is because it is not going to work out for her.
-(EXPLOSION) -(SCREAMS)
KALEY:
that looks exactly like her.
STEVE:
This is someone that's making a choice to look like her.
She is gonna get entangled in a mystery
that is gonna take her all around the world.
Someone is pretending to be me!
Hello?!
-Yes, yes, all right. -That's bad, very bad.
Shut the fuck up!
For season two,
we're obviously bringing back everybody's favorites.
We're bringing back Annie and Max.
Get out of my house, or tell me what is on your hand.
-Oh, my god! -Oh my god, stop screaming...
We're bringing back Megan.
What are you doing here?
There's Shane!
Hello, gorgeous.
Hello, beauty.
We're bringing back Davey.
DAVEY BOWDEN: You have to press the paw.
Easy does it!
Oh, my god, is that your voice?
A lot of season two is about
each individual character finding their own footing.
I just mostly miss being self-sufficient,
and you know, like feeling valuable?
Annie and Max really deal with what their love is,
and how much they can let go of their insecurities,
or grow together.
At the same time, Max and Annie are around to help Cassie.
You have to do your Max thing.
Okay...
They sort of get entwined in the spider web of
her insane, chaotic life again.
They went through my purse...
Yeah, I think they went through everything.
No... no, no, no, no, no!
Everyone's hunting for something.
I spend my entire season running after Megan.
You've been hunting Megan for a day?
I've been hunting Megan for over a year.
Oh, God. I'm not "hunting" anyone.
In season two, we find Megan on the run,
hiding because she committed an act of treason.
She is a nervous wreck, she is panic-stricken.
She is a hot mess.
I have a bounty on my head. Half a million for whoever turns me in.
Can you believe it? I'm a prize.
Those are people that the fans loved,
and I wanted to make sure those stories really sang.
The cast has been phenominal. Every single one of them.
Okay, okay.
Look, we don't always have to hug...
KALEY:
and once we started idealizing what it was gonna be,
I realized it was gonna be ten times bigger than season one.
It's huge in scale.
There were stunts, and tasers.
There were things blowing up.
We do a lot of Hitchcockian scenes.
We often shoot at a high angle to put the audience on edge.
The beauty of season two is that we've switched to LA.
STEVE:
new locations.
We've captured a really wide swathe of the different worlds
that make up Los Angeles.
I just love the idea that this was LA for LA.
An iconic LA.
The Santa Monica Pier was our biggest location.
We shut down the entire Pier.
We really brought LA into this series.
A lot of people did a lot of work to make it look the way it is.
And it's fantastic.
Part of the joy of
is the travel log that it is.
And so in season two, we went to two places.
And the first was Berlin.
We picked a European city with a lot of stories of intrigue,
and history plays very heavily.
After Berlin, we got to go to Reykjavik, Iceland.
We went to this amazing rock cliff,
and we saw copters and geysers.
I was like, "We're going to Iceland in December? Are we insane?"
Like, are we insane.
It's, like, three degrees there. What are we thinking?
It ended up being the most magical,
because it was during Christmas,
and it was as if I was at the North Pole shooting a show,
and it couldn't have been better.
Would you like to try our world famous
The sheep's head?
Uh, no... (LAUGHS NERVOUSLY)
It looks great, but maybe another time.
Thank you.
It looks so good it looks fake.
And I actually am worried people are gonna think it was a sound stage.
This isn't a show we can shoot on a sound stage.
Like, we either gotta go to these places, or not.
We went there.
Thank you very much.
What is this?
Oh... I think you know.
No. No, no, no, no. I am not doing this again.
In season two, it was really important that we
kept the Mind Palace conceit from season one.
It's part of what makes the show special.
It's part of the unique brand of storytelling.
We have the hotel lobby in Berlin.
That's where she wakes up after the bombing,
and it's the thing that her brain latches onto.
The big challenge this year is
who is she gonna meet in the Mind Palace.
We have to do something different,
because the Alex story from season one is wrapped.
So, what is that gonna be for her?
And then we decided it was going to be herself.
Are you...? Are you me?
Oh, God. Don't answer that.
The Mind Palace season two
is gonna be this exciting manifestation of this theme
of acceptance of the different sides of yourself.
Having her naturally have to engage and wrestle
these different versions of herself
is a huge part of the bedrock of recovery.
Just go inside!
You know we're going to anyway...
Everything we do ends up a disaster.
And you serious? What the-- Who the hell is that?
Logistically, it's been insane.
I started interviewing people who had done it before.
I talked to the folks that did
and got a lot of insight into what their process was.
It's really a combo platter where you're doing
motion control, you're doing physical tricks,
where we have a cast of amazing doubles that have stepped in,
and amazing stunt people.
So weird, right?
Wild, wild experience in that Mind Palace. Yeah.
That Mind Palace will haunt me for the rest of my life.
Who are you?
I'm you, silly. If you made better choices...
Bartender, can we get two sodas with a little twist of lime?
Okay...
Oh, my gosh. Fans should be excited about season two of
because season two is such an adventure.
It has all of the mystery,
suspense, and fun of season one.
And just like season one, it also has a very,
kind of sometimes frustratingly human story
running underneath it.
This whole sobriety thing? It's never not hard.
It is a crazy journey through
sobriety, addiction, magical realism,
and finding oneself through oneself.
Your entire world's falling apart.
You are holding it together.
Yeah. Thank you.
Let's talk about the women of
You've got Kaley Cuoco,
you've got Rose Perez,
you've got Zosia Mamet.
This is pussy power in all it's magnificence.
It is the Mount Rushmore of female comedy.
Also, behind the scenes, you have Silver Tree,
our secret sauce behind the camera,
and you've got me.
The women behind the scenes, the women in front of the camera.
We did it. We made a good season.
Let's turn things up.
I can't believe what we did.
You lied to me!
KALEY:
CASSIE: What happened?
Because it's kind of extraordinary.
(AIRPLANE TAKING OFF)