Bloodline star Ben Mendelsohn recently revealed how the Florida Keys drama is different from other Netflix series like House of Cards.

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Mendelsohn, who plays "black sheep" Danny Rayburn on Bloodline, spoke with Vanity Fair recently about the show.

He suggested that working on a show like this is innovative in that it was pretty much written with streaming in mind.

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"Writers can now genuinely stretch their legs and run. And a lot of the traditional conventions of episodic television can now be discarded," Mendelsohn said of the writing of a streaming show. "And being able to bring in nuance, etc. etc. All of those implications, I think. We're in 'the golden age,' right? Everyone sort of accepts that premise. But I kind of think [Bloodline is] one of the very first shows that is written very much with streaming in mind."

He noted that this is "very exciting" and while the show House of Cards is also streaming, it is "respectfully, built on the existing show. Whereas the inception of this is pretty . . . We're not beaten to the post by many other productions. So this is very much the early days of this kind of novelistic long-form writing."

Bloodline definitely has a novel-like approach to its storytelling, with each episode feeling like a chapter than an individual episode. While the first few episodes are relatively slow, the final episodes are very fast-paced and intense in a climactic way.

The star also noted that this doesn't drastically change the filming process at all.

"In a very real sense, all you do when you're shooting film or television is you shoot a scene and then you shoot another scene and then you shoot another scene," Mendelssohn explained. "In that regard this is no different. It's just that you have more of a sense of not knowing. We were very eager to find stuff out as we we went along. We would rush back when the new episodes came out and chatter away with each other, 'Did you see that?' We were keen to know what happened."

Bloodline season 1 is currently available for streaming on Netflix.

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