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Joe Barton is the creator of the new Netflix series The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself, based on the Half-Bad series by Sally Green.

We knew that we wanted to tell this story of an attack, which in a normal show you would just have a flashback or CCTV. How could these witches present it to us? And then we’re like, ‘OK, so you just recreate it, so you’re watching it.’ But what if you took away a key element – the bodies – so you’re seeing it just with sound and the blood? That was part of the fun of doing it, trying to find these innovative ways of presenting magic and horror mixed together.

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