David Weil on ‘Solos’: A story about yearning for human connection

The ‘Hunters’ creator says the mini-series is a love letter to connection and an affirmation of humanity

The futuristic anthology, Solos, features seven actors telling their stories. Speaking from Los Angeles, creator, David Weil says, “I have always wanted to create a series that transported me to the time when I first fell in love with stories and storytellers. The finest storytellers that I know were members of my family. My grandmother would tell me stories around her kitchen table over a bowl of chicken soup. My older brothers told me terrifying ghost stories when we went hiking and camping up in the mountains as young children.” . Weil, who also created the alternate history show, Hunters, wanted to transport an audience to that feeling. “I was fascinated with the idea of an actor in a room telling a singular story, and the possibilities that that one story can hold for an audience. I wrote this piece last May when we were at the height of the pandemic in the United States. It is a story about yearning for human connection.”