The writer-director explains how she blends comedy while also tackling issues such as mental health in the sophomore season ahead of her panel at SCADTV.
I started working on the show in 2019, and we broke the whole first season pre-pandemic. When we came together to write season two, we were squarely in the middle of a new reality, and it felt disingenuous to make a light season. A lot of us were dealing with mental health issues and finding it hard to get the motivation to write.Quinn’s [Byers] whole storyline. If someone had told me before the pandemic that we’d be tackling depression in a comedy, I’d say, “That seems a little dark.
Dancing is good for me. I put on ratchet hip-hop specifically. But I will say that I wish more people were doing lighter, more fun content. I think the reason why things likeare doing so well is that people just want to escape from reality, and there wasn’t enough material doing that. Watching TV and movies shouldn’t feel like work.
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