The only thing wilder than the action happening on screen in Season 2 of Tyler Perry ‘s Beauty in Black (and make no mistake, it is W-I-L-D) is the breakneck speed at which it was filmed.

Executive-produced, created, written and directed by Perry, the over-the-top soap returned to Netflix with the first half of its second season on Sept. 11 and is currently charting above some of the streamer’s biggest hits. Unlike those other top shows, however, Beauty in Black managed to film all 16 episodes of its current season in 12 days, series star Taylor Polidore Williams tells TVLine.

“I ask [Perry] all the time, ‘How are you doing this?” Williams says. “He was sending me the scripts as he finished them. One day I got one, then the next day I got another. I’m like, ‘Tyler, how do you

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