4/28/2024 0 Comments Blown away naoWe all weigh in, and then sometimes the producers and editors might just want to make sure that they’ve got each of us saying positives and negatives, just so they have options when it comes to the edit. I say stuff, the guest says stuff, Hunter says some things-or Nick in the previous seasons. We’re not definitely not spending 30 minutes on each piece, but maybe 10 to 15. How condensed is it? When you’re walking around the gallery, are you spending a couple of minutes-or 30 minutes-with each piece? How long are those conversations, and how much are you picking them apart? As much as I love Blown Away, one of my frustrations is that it’s just a 30-minute episode. Speaking of time, I’d love to dig in a little bit to the judging. Maybe people with more experience can rebound from that a little better, or be able to adapt or think on their feet a little more agilely than younger, less experienced contestants.īlown Away judge Katherine Gray, guest judge Alexander Rosenberg, and host Nick Uhas (Photo by Netflix) Nobody likes working under like time constraints like that-and especially with glass where something could go horribly wrong very late in the process, you’re left with nothing. People with less experience might have sort of more sort of starry-eyed ambitions about what they think they can accomplish in a short amount of time. I don’t think it affects everyone equally, because I feel like sometimes people with more experience know how to make things faster, or know what kind of shortcuts they could take. I wonder if people who are more experienced struggle under that more. On the increasing caliber of the contestants: Obviously, they’re still being forced to work under extreme time constraints that are not normal. Nao Yamamoto, a contestant on Blown Away season 2, works on piece in the hot shop (Photo by Netflix) I don’t think I’m any more of a hard-ass, but I do feel like people have to kind of work for it. Now you realize: this is going to be pretty transformational. In season one, it was sort of like, Oh, this is kind of a cool, fun thing to do. I feel like generally there’s been like a higher caliber of artists who have ended up on the show-or just more skilled, more developed.īecause of that, I feel like I have higher expectations, but also just because I know now like the impact doing well on the show will have on their careers. (laughs) All the people that come on the show have seen the show they know how it works. I guess a little bit, because now I feel like I probably have higher expectations. Have you noticed a change either in the competitors-or yourself-about the way that you approach the show, or the way it unfolds? I am so very thrilled that it has worked out this way, and so thrilled that so many other people now know about glassblowing. But that I just didn’t think, in all the offerings that Netflix has, that this was sort of somehow like rise to the top. ![]() Katherine Gray: No, honestly-and not because I didn’t think that glassblowing was interesting to watch, because I have known that for a long time. Katherine Gray talks to the glass artists during Blown Away season 4, episode 4 (Photo by Netflix)Īndy Dehnart: Did you ever anticipate the show going five seasons, or becoming as popular as it is now? This interview has been condensed and edited to clean up human speech. I talked to Katherine earlier this week, and we discussed all things Blown Away, from the judging criteria to and what we don’t see in the series’ short episodes.ĭuring our conversation, she also shared what happens to the art after the competition the differences between hosts and what’s changed over the last five years. There have been three hosts-Nick Uhas, Bobby Berk, and now Hunter March (of Netflix’s Sugar Rush)-but only one head judge.įor five seasons (including the special Christmas-themed season), Katherine has observed the artists work from the balcony explained glassblowing to us browsed the gallery with the host and guest judge, examining and evaluating the artists’ work and helped to decide who wins and who goes home. Katherine Gray has been the one constant star of Netflix’s glassblowing reality competition Blown Away since it first premiered on the Canadian channel Makeful back in 2019 before making its way to Netflix.
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