Based on a True Story composer Sherri Chung brought a typewriter to the orchestra to perform her score during Deadline’s Sound & Screen live-music event.
The typewriter was just one of the unusual instruments she included in the music for the Peacock comedy mystery. “I just wanted find something that was fun and cool to use that I’d never been able to use before,” Chung said. “It was definitely a little bit more modern noir, which a typewriter’s not that.
The show is the modern part.” In the Peacock/Universal Cable Productions series, Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina play a married couple who start a true crime podcast that attracts the attention of the killer himself (Tom Bateman).
The podcasters find themselves caught between reporting on the killer and becoming his accomplice. As the killer, Bateman can be violent and charming.
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