"I made Rian Johnson cry once," Kwong says, quickly adding, "Kidding!"
THE AFTERPARTY EPISODES CODE
(Lord tells VF that he doesn't attend, "so the group could proceed with success without a big dummy weighing it down," but clarifies that he's "killing it at Wordle.") Imagine very intense escape room runs and hours-long games of Decrypto, which Kwong describes as "kind of like Code Names on steroids." That game usually takes about 20 minutes to get through-but with the intense puzzle night crew, every nuance matters.
The two got acquainted with Miller at a regular game night for Hollywood puzzle nerds, among them Aline Brosh McKenna, Craig Mazin and Megan Amram. They're a Big Deal in puzzling circles: Both are New York Times-published cruciverbalists, the holy grail of crosswords Kwong has staged multiple successful magic/code-centric shows at LA's Geffen Playhouse and Shukan has both won and written the MIT Mystery Hunt, which he calls "the Olympics of puzzle solving."
Shukan, an attorney for 30-plus years who has been moonlighting as a professional puzzler for the past decade, and Kwong, a magician and puzzlemaker, have since worked as a duo consulting on puzzles, deceptions and codes in shows like NBC's The Blind Spot and the recent Ghostbusters: Afterlife movie. The pair first encountered one another in an escape room, Kwong and Shukan tell VF, a meet-cute ripe for a puzzle-centric buddy comedy. (It’ll reward them even further in its recently-announced second season.) Contrary to the idea that binge-watching is a mindless zone-out, this show can flex your brain muscles if you let it-thanks not only to Miller, but puzzle consultants David Kwong and Dave Shukan.
Beyond real-time switcharoos like those, The Afterparty is a show packed to the brim with Easter eggs and god-level puzzles, rewarding to both casual viewers and hardcore puzzle nerds.
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