Swerve Season Two: Going Home

By: Krista Ann Freego

“Swerve: to deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course. Swerving is the decision not to hit one thing and maybe hit something else instead. To deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course. That’s the story of my life. I’ve been accused of self-sabotage. Things will be going fine, well, as expected anyway and then for seemingly no reason, I’ll jerk the wheel of my life and crash into something totally unexpected. I call that the swerve.” – Elise

Merely existing is not sufficient for Elise (Sharon Belle), rather she yearns to live. As such, whenever she feels her life has degraded to mere existence she “swerves” and takes a new path, in search of living.  In Season One, as a result of Elise’s most recent “swerve” she meets Jen (Kat Inokai) and Stevie (Emily Alatalo). The friendships she forges with both affects her deeply and each woman has a life-long impression on the others.

Every chapter of Season One was introduced by a monologue from Elise. Each monologue was more hauntingly beautiful, touching and poignant than the chapter before it. Over the course of the first six chapters fans (“Swervers”) were left with the following questions:

• Who is the man in the photos with Stevie (that she keeps in her cabin)?
• Was Stevie really a cop or was she just using that as a cover for having the gun?
• How did Stevie become a contract killer?
• What was Jen dying from?
• What did Jen’s letter to Elise say?
• Does Elise know that Stevie killed Jen?
• Did Stevie actually end of killing Jen (we never got to see what happened on their walk)?

I had the extreme and rare opportunity to ask these questions to the creator/director behind Swerve, Jason Armstrong. I asked Jason Armstrong if any of these unsolved mysteries from Season One were going to be addressed in Season Two. The response to many of these inquiries was “stay tuned.”

Prior to the new Season Two trailer being released to the public, Starry Constellation Magazine was given the incredible gift of being able to view it early and provide all the Swervers out there with a little inside information. After I watched the trailer once, I found myself watching it over and over and over again – each viewing amping up my already unbearable anticipation for the Season Two launch of Swerve. In the trailer alone, Sharon Belle is able to convey a myriad of emotions with just her eyes, leading me to believe that if one sat across from her and did nothing but stare into her eyes for three minutes while she thought about the entire storyline of Season Two, you could easily decipher all that lies ahead in Season Two. To have an actor that can convey so much, without words, is nothing short of mesmerizing.

Season Two is all about Elise “going home.” I put “going home” in quotations because, just based on the trailer alone it is clear, that much like the entirety of Swerve the words “going home” mean so much more than their face value. So much more than just going back to where she is from and used to live. “Going home” can also represent Elise searching to feel “at home,” to be at peace with herself. In her friendship with Jen, in Season One, a part of Elise finally felt “at home,” but with the loss of Jen came the loss of that rarely attainable peace of being.

Season Two was completely funded by an Indiegogo campaign. The goal was to raise $15,000 to produce the fifteen new chapters for Season Two. By the close of the 30 day campaign, thanks to the contributions of 121 backers (of which I am proud to say that I was 1 of 121), $18,646 was raised and thus making Season 2 a reality.

I asked Swerve Creator/Director Jason Armstrong if he could tell the fans one thing about Season Two:

“We look back fondly at where we’ve been, our past, as though it’s frozen in time, perhaps waiting to comfort us when we need it to. The reality is that every trip into the past is crawling with demons. In Season Two, Elise attempts to swerve back into old lanes, but you can only jerk the wheel so many times before you are no longer in control.”

AND NOW THE MOMENT YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR *DRUMROLL* THE EXCLUSIVE LINK TO THE NEW TRAILER IS:     https://youtu.be/Njmz5eCZAg0

WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE ABOUT SWERVE?  SO GLAD YOU ASKED:

WEB:                                      www.swerveseries.com

INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN PAGE    www.SwerveSeries.com

SKELTON KEY FILMS       www.skgfilms.com

FACEBOOK              https://m.facebook.com/swerveseries

TWITTER                   @SwerveSeries     https://mobile.twitter.com/SwerveSeries

SNAPCHAT              SKGFilms

INSTAGRAM            https://www.instagram.com/skeletonkeyfilms/

“When did we become such different people?”

        “We were always different people. That’s why we needed each other.”