The Other Two (TV series)

• Heléne Yorke as Brooke Dubek, Cary and Chase's older sister and former professional dancer, who wants to figure out what she wants to do for her future[1]
• Drew Tarver as Cary Dubek, Brooke's younger brother, Chase's older brother, and aspiring actor, who struggles to find roles[1]
• Case Walker as Chase Dubek / ChaseDreams, Cary and Brooke's younger brother, who is thrust into stardom after an internet viral video[1]
• Ken Marino as Streeter Peters, ChaseDreams' newly hired manager[1]

• Molly Shannon as Pat Dubek, the three siblings' Hollywood-ready mother[1]
• Josh Segarra as Lance, Brooke's simple-minded ex
• Andrew Ridings as Matt, Cary's roommate, who swears he is straight but will make moves on Cary
• Brandon Scott Jones as Curtis, Cary's co-worker and "the other gay waiter"
• Richard Kind as Skip Schamplin, Cary's agent who also has multiple odd jobs
• Wanda Sykes as Shuli Kucerac, an executive from ChaseDreams' record label
• Daniel K. Isaac as Jeremy Delongpre, a teacher and love interest for Cary
• Gideon Glick as Jess, Cary's love interest (season 2)[5]

• Beck Bennett as Jeff, Brooke's one-time lover who is a flight attendant
• Chris Cafero as Tad, Brooke's one-time date and ChaseDreams super-fan
• Kathie Lee Gifford, Hoda Kotb, Erin Lim, Mario Lopez, Tinsley Mortimer, Michael Che, Andy Cohen, and Patrick Wilson also appear as themselves.

A few months prior to being named co-head writers for Saturday Night Live's 42nd season, Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider spent a week in early 2016 developing the premise of The Other Two. They wanted the show to express the introspection and self-doubt that can happen in your 20s while incorporating elements of pop culture.[16] Kelly said they were intentional about including depictions of the characters' sex lives.[17] Speaking to Vulture, Schneider said they intentionally wrote Chase as a kind person because it would subvert expectations of the story.[16]

The pilot was sold to Comedy Central in late 2016.[17] Schneider and Kelly hired Charlie Gruet, who was the director of photography of the television series High Maintenance.[16] In October 2017, The Other Two received a full series order.[18] The series was produced through executive producer Lorne Michaels' entertainment studio, Broadway Video.[19] The first season is set to begin streaming on HBO Max in 2021, where the second season will also stream exclusively, making the series a "Max Original".[4]

In October 2017, it was announced that Drew Tarver, Heléne Yorke, Case Walker, Ken Marino, and Molly Shannon had joined the cast for the series.[18][17] Kelly and Schneider discovered Walker through social media, where he was known as a top user on the platform Musical.ly and as having over 400,000 Instagram followers.[16] Tarver was brought in based on his comedic work at Upright Citizens Bridge Theatre, while Yorke was cast after Kelly and Schneider became familiar with her work on High Maintenance.[16] It was announced in February 2020 that Gideon Glick would recur during the second season as Cary's new love interest named Jess.[5]