THE DEADBOLT: We know Maggie and James [Roday] have good chemistry, but who else appears in the episode?

LANDIS: James and Maggie have such good chemistry and to see them playing so different; it’s very interesting. It’s really good. There are some wonderful performances in it. Oh f**k, I just totally forgot her name.

LAWSON: Sonja?

LANDIS: Sonja. Sonja Bennett is a Canadian actress. Did you see Deer Woman?

THE DEADBOLT: Yes.

LANDIS: Remember the girl in the morgue?

THE DEADBOLT: Okay, yeah.

LANDIS: Same girl, very different. And Sonja Bennett, Marshall Bell, and the guy from - I’ve forgotten his name - from X-Files. Who was the cigarette guy? What was his name? I’ve forgotten.

LAWSON: Oh, my god. William. He plays Father Chris. He’s so effortlessly - and I hope this is not an insult to him - but I mean he, in himself, he is so calm to a point that it's creepy. Even when you’re just having a conversation with him, you’re like, "God, you are a character. You are so great."

LANDIS: But it was a fun experience. You know, the analogy Maggie made earlier I think is right. It’s like making a little low-budget feature. We’re off in Edmonton where you have two choices - you can go outside and be cold or you can watch a movie.

LAWSON: Or you can go off and be cold, and then the director can decide that to make the scene creepier it needs gigantic wind machines.

THE DEADBOLT: Giant wind machines?

LANDIS: Oh, you know what? That’s true. I’m such an idiot. When I went scouting, which was just before shooting - like four days or three days before shooting - I realized there’s this night exterior. And we’re out there at night and I said, "Jesus Christ, how cold is it?" They go, "Oh, it’s about 10 below zero." And I went, "Holy shit! They all have to wear coats." And so they all had [coats]. We had to make coats for everybody with thermal underwear and everything. And then I thought it didn’t look cold enough so I wanted wind. What I didn’t realize, of course, is there’s a thing called Wind Chill Factor. So, lucky for me, I’m behind the camera.

LAWSON: Yeah, it was funny. I was saying before we got on the phone, I think that there might be a few scenes where you hear the words but my mouth doesn’t actually move, which is why I had to do some ADR. No, I’m kidding. It was cold, but it was fun. Again, it’s like that, you know, in a moment that you really, really have to band together and make something work, which is why it does. It does take on that independent feature feel to it and you’re out in Edmonton and the city. The crew was wonderful. The city, it’s a great place to shoot this anthology I think because when you’re living downtown in Edmonton - and we were shooting nights - so we’d get up at 4pm or 5pm in the afternoon, everything closes at 5pm in Edmonton. So you’re walking through this ghost town where the only thing that would be open was maybe the casino and that was it, and that was sort of off to the side in its own little parking lot. But there was this creepy feel to the city and I think it makes it a great setting.

THE DEADBOLT: So Maggie and James still have the good chemistry in this, but it’s a lot different than Psych.

LANDIS: You’ll see when you see the show, it’s very different. I mean, Maggie and James are in a TV series that’s brightly, brightly lit. In fact, that was one of my fights with them. But the conventional idea of comedy is you light it, you over-light it, which is dumb, but nonetheless that’s the cliché and what people do. This particular show is very dark and very moody, very beautifully lit by this guy Alwyn Koomst, who I used to call Herr Koomst. But we were working very fast. We did some very tricky shots and I’m really pleased with the look of the thing.

LAWSON: John, I have to say I saw some of it in ADR. I saw a couple of the sequences. I saw the end sequence. I saw a few other scenes as well. It is so beautifully shot and so beautifully lit and I’m so excited to see it because there was just something about being in the - I kept thinking to myself, "Oh my god, this is so creepy."