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It’s funny how the universe works.<\/p>\n Not only is that an incredibly true statement, but it’s also the title, and the opening line, of a song by The Runarounds<\/a>, the poppy young rock band that’s the focus of a new TV series on Amazon Prime Video<\/a>. The line could also refer to how the band got together in the first place, and found themselves starring in a TV show and headlining a national tour.<\/p>\n For clarity’s sake, the band is real, even though it was formed for the show<\/a>. And the “The Runarounds” show<\/a> is fictional, even though it’s based in part on the band members’ real-life stories.<\/p>\n Let’s back up bit, to 2020, when singer\/guitarists Axel Ellis, William Lipton and\u00a0Jeremy Yun; drummer Zende Murdock; and bassist Jesse Golliher responded to a casting call for musicians put out on the social media accounts of actors in Netflix’s mega-popular series “Outer Banks.”<\/a><\/p>\n Jonas Pate, the co-creator of “Outer Banks” who’s also the creator, co-writer and director of “The Runarounds,” chose the five out of some 5,000 submissions and brought them to Charleston, South Carolina, where “Outer Banks” is shot. There, he had them rehearse songs by Iggy Pop, Coldplay and other artists, even a few classics like “Twist and Shout,” the song by The Top Notes famously covered by the likes of The Isley Brothers and The Beatles.<\/p>\n In short order, the quintet, whose members were still in high school at the time, played a house band on “Outer Banks” and picked up a few club dates. By 2022 they were shooting the show’s pilot in Wilmington, Delaware, where none of them had ever been before.<\/p>\n