Last year, just before lockdown, Grace Kuhlenschmidt took a new job at a coffee shop, one that she never actually started. Instead, she found herself recording videos and bits at home, blowing up on TikTok. It paid off: She spent this summer filming the next season of Search Party, the acclaimed HBO Max series that happens to be her first show. “It was the coolest experience of my life,” she says, adding that it’s an upgrade from last year’s coolest experiences, which included looking at a new bed stand “for a whole month” and moving from Chicago to New York, to be closer to her girlfriend and friends.