BUPKIS: Judah Miller on Pete Davidson’s Semi-Autobiographical New Peacock Series

BUPKIS — “TBD” Episode 107 — Pictured: Pete Davidson as Pete Davidson — (Photo by: Heidi Gutman/Peacock)

BUPKIS, the new Peacock series debuting on Thursday, May 4 (with all 8 episodes dropping at once), is diving into the (semi-autobiographical) world of Pete Davidson.

“We wrote this show in a vacuum, during the pandemic,” showrunner Judah Miller explains to Give Me My Remote in the video below. (Note: This interview was conducted before the WGA strike.)  “We wanted the show to have a boundlessness to it, and a sense of anarchy. It was important to us that there were no restrictions on what the show was allowed to do. It was really, at the end of the day, what made us laugh the hardest, or what made us feel the most, was sort of our guiding metric with that.”

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