“This is one where the best path forward is to just play it as it lays. “Honestly, reading it, I was like, ‘I’m not sure: Is it a comedy, but is it a comedy? It’s a mystery, but is it? It’s a relationship drama, or maybe not.’ The fact that it’s just to the left of so many different things, I kind of went in blind, if I’m being honest,” he says. This is a lot like his character, Noah, too: intrigued by the situation, but not inclined enough to actually change his daily routine for anything. Nothing could size up to the peculiarity of The Resort. There’s no true comparison, according to Harper. There’s still a bit of Palm Springs bounce lingering from Siara, who certainly has a knack for genre-bending.
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Milioti equates the series to Force Majeure with “a touch of amber from Jurassic Park in it.” There’s a romantic tooth-pulling scene in this week’s episode evocative of The Americans-Milioti, an Americans obsessive, pulls up her phone to watch the clip after I mention it-but it’s not as dark as a textured drama. It’s hard to predict what’s going to happen in the final beats of the show, perhaps because The Resort is truly like nothing else that’s ever aired before. With the penultimate episode of The Resort premiering on Peacock this week and the finale right around the corner, fans will be speculating about the magical meaning behind the Oceana Vista. “ told me there was some crazy theory-something where she was me or something? That she had traveled?” “There’s something that’s ringing a bell deep in my brain through layers and layers of Real Housewives clips, whatever takes up space up there,” she says. It has something to do with June Squibb’s Nana character. (Remember all the theories bubbling around Severance when it premiered earlier this year?) While Harper and Milioti aren’t too tapped into the social media buzz, the latter says she recalls gushing over a Palm Springs fan theory with Siara back when it dropped on Hulu in 2020. Plus, oddball series like The Resort can be more fun when the fans start to chime in. Now more than ever, since we’ve all gone through this collective experience as a species in the last couple years.” I feel like that’s what we’re always doing. “Of course, I love to skip around in an existential soup. “I’m drawn to things that can’t quite be put in one category,” Milioti says, realizing she’s in existential crises in a good handful of her recent roles: in Palm Springs, she’s stuck in a time loop, and in Made For Love, she’s trapped inside an evil billionaire’s fake world. The ground underneath them is shifting as well.” “You wind up in territory where, since there’s less of an outline we’re familiar with, there’s a lot less room for people watching and saying what you should’ve done. “I like being a part of something where I have my theory on what happened and how it all went, what the rules of those worlds are, and someone else has a completely different interpretation,” Harper says. In a show of confidence in the series’ potential widespread appeal-and also its delightful weirdness-NBC will air the pilot episode on Thursday after America’s Got Talent (its most-watched summer series going on 16 years), with the hopes that fans who sampled it will head to Peacock to stream the rest. ‘The Resort’ Is the New Summer Mystery That Could Be the Next ‘White Lotus’ While Harper rose to fame starring alongside Kristen Bell in The Good Place, Milioti worked with The Resort creator Andy Siara on the Groundhog Day-styled rom-com Palm Springs.
Harper and Milioti, who hopped on a Zoom with The Daily Beast’s Obsessed to discuss their ongoing series, are no strangers to all-over-the-place, bonkers genre series like The Resort. But they’ll also share theories on Reddit, tweet about the creepiest scenes, and ponder over existential crises together. They’ll compare it to real life, like the flurries of fans are doing on TikTok. When anything’s up for interpretation, people will interpret it.
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That’s the benefit of having a mind-boggling, existential, genre-warping TV series. “I didn’t know that at all,” Milioti says, making a mental note to search her show on the app later. Popular TikTok accounts have made hobbies out of showcasing real-life disappearances from cruises, all-inclusive resorts, and other far-off getaways-a perfect tie-in to the mysterious plot of The Resort. Though it’s a little twisted, Milioti agrees that this is the perfect way to market the series. Pairing stills of Cristin Milioti and William Jackson Harper with “Creepy Music Theme #2,” viral videos make the fantastical (and, worth noting, entirely fictional) Peacock series look like a real true-crime event. Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty
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