{"id":22,"date":"2016-08-10T17:57:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/?p=22"},"modified":"2016-08-10T17:57:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:57:18","slug":"charles-chic-eglee-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/2016\/08\/10\/charles-chic-eglee-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles \u201cChic\u201d Eglee \u201970"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An academic career spurred on by music forges a successful writer and producer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Charles \u201cChic\u201d Eglee \u201970 remem\u00adbers the year he went away to Williston. The Beatles\u2019 \u201cRevolver\u201d album had just been released, and it rocked his world. In fact, many of his memories of Williston hinge on the music of the late \u201960s\u2014 that, and the growing activism on campus around the Vietnam War. A studious kid, Mr. Eglee learned to channel his wit and became a writer and producer for TV shows and Netflix series such as \u201cThe Shield,\u201d \u201cDexter,\u201d and \u201cHemlock Grove.\u201d Jefferson Airplane. The Grateful Dead. Somebody in the room next door to me was playing \u201cAre You Experienced?\u201d and I walked by and stuck my head in. We all stood in the doorway staring at the record player going, \u2018What the f— is this?\u2019 Nobody had ever heard music like this before. The music sounded so original and subversive. That was a great memory of that time.<\/p>\n

Can you describe the dorm culture?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The one year I lived in the dorm, which was John Wright House, that was an incredibly kinetic year musically. Jimi Hendrix\u2019s first album came out, The Doors had just come out. The Velvet Under\u00adground. To me, I just remember the dorm being essentially a musical environment. There was this kid from Virginia and he was a big Motown head and he always had Motown playing. The Summer of Love happened my junior year.<\/p>\n

What at Williston inspired or influenced the career you have now? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I was studying constantly. I had lots of papers to write. It gave me a work ethic. I went to Yale and it was like, \u2018Oh a 10-page paper, oh no big deal.\u2019 I had written a hundred of those. The academic discipline that I brought from Williston served me very well in college.<\/p>\n

Who were you as teenager? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I remember becoming very political my senior year. The Vietnam War was coming to the fore. In East\u00adhampton, whenever anybody from Massachusetts was killed in Vietnam, they would toll the church bells. I just remember walking around and it seemed like it was endless that the church bell would be tolling. That war just loomed over the campus\u2026That war, man, you had to be there. It was the thing that shaped my generation more than anything.<\/p>\n

What are you working on right now? <\/strong><\/p>\n

After a very long run on \u201cThe Shield,\u201d I worked on \u201cDexter\u201d for a couple of seasons, and then I went in to set up \u201cThe Walking Dead.\u201d Then I went to Netflix on a show that they had which was the first venture into a regular series. They had this show that had premiered and it was just a disaster. It was a genre show and by episode four everyone had deserted the tent. They needed someone to come in and fix it. I had not been on a fix-it mission before. The show was called \u201cHemlock Grove.\u201d There were no TV people involved. Nobody knew how to do a TV show. I got the show up and functioning the second year. We earned back the good will of the critics and then got the audience back. And then this last year really had a lot of fun. We got to shoot off all the fireworks at once. That drops in October.<\/p>\n

What makes for a good show? <\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s really about storytelling. The great thing about TV is there\u2019s this remarkable alchemy that takes place when you\u2019ve got actors, and writers and this sort of synergistic exchange. The show becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Are you going to resonate in the zeitgeist? Are you going to hit that thing that makes it special? I\u2019ve had the good fortune of having that happen a few times in my career. \u201cThe Shield\u201d was one of those shows. That show was really pretty wonderful for me. You look at a show like \u201cBreaking Bad,\u201d and that\u2019s where the writers and the material and the actors, it just took off. It was smartly conceived. There\u2019s a certain \u2018lightning in a bottle\u2019 quality to a good TV show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles \u201cChic\u201d Eglee \u201970 remem\u00adbers the year he went away to Williston. The Beatles\u2019 \u201cRevolver\u201d album had just been released, and it rocked his world. In fact, many of his memories of Williston hinge on the music of the late \u201960s\u2014 that, and the growing activism on campus around the Vietnam War. A studious kid, … Continue reading Charles \u201cChic\u201d Eglee \u201970<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charles-chic-eglee-70"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}