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05-16-2020, 12:24 AM
..."just in the nick of time" before coronavirus shutdown
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dead-me-season-2-finale-explained-creator-liz-feldman-interview-1294023
Liz Feldman was asked about tackling bigger issues like alcoholism, verbal abuse and family trauma in Season 2. "I think I always just try to write the show as true to life as possible, and though some of the events that are happening around these ladies are a bit heightened, ultimately the feelings that they're experiencing are very authentic and grounded," she tells The Hollywood Reporter. "For any of us day-to-day, you can have some really crazy **** happen but then end up having like a hilarious time with your best friend, or you can start off thinking that it's going to be a great day and get terrible news. Life is more than one genre at a time and that's how I balance it, which is to say that I just try to make it feel a little bit like life, but a little bit heightened, because it's a TV show. But I say that I am the arbiter of the tone, so sometimes we might write a version of a scene that does feel a little bit dark when we put it on its feet and we're there with Christina and Linda, sometimes we'll have them improvise a lighter exchange, we'll put that in and it feels like it balances out a little bit. So it's an organic process as we are shooting the show in terms of surfing that tonal wave."
ALSO:
Liz Feldman on Season 2's ending: "It felt like it would’ve been a bit insulting to the audience" (https://tvline.com/2020/05/12/dead-to-me-season-3-netflix-renewal-jen-judy-ben/)
Linda Cardellini and James Marsden talk Season 2's twists (https://variety.com/2020/tv/features/dead-to-me-season-2-linda-cardellini-james-marsden-ben-judy-twin-interview-1234606341/)
Dead to Me's best supporting character is wine (https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/dead-to-me-season-2-wine.html)
A guide to Dead to Me's many, many cliffhangers (https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/dead-to-me-cliffhanger-reveal-twist-episode-guide.html)
Dead to Me creator: Our "no big deal" approach to Season 2's same-sex relationship was "incredibly deliberate and purposeful" (https://tvline.com/2020/05/26/dead-to-me-natalie-morales-season-3-judy-michelle/)
“As a gay woman who has been writing a really long time, I’ve had the opportunity to tell the ‘coming out story,'" creator Liz Feldman tells TVLine. "I wanted to see a different version of it. I wanted to see a no-big-deal version of it because, to me, it is no big deal. It felt fresh to me to treat a burgeoning relationship between two women like it was totally normal."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dead-me-season-2-finale-explained-creator-liz-feldman-interview-1294023
Liz Feldman was asked about tackling bigger issues like alcoholism, verbal abuse and family trauma in Season 2. "I think I always just try to write the show as true to life as possible, and though some of the events that are happening around these ladies are a bit heightened, ultimately the feelings that they're experiencing are very authentic and grounded," she tells The Hollywood Reporter. "For any of us day-to-day, you can have some really crazy **** happen but then end up having like a hilarious time with your best friend, or you can start off thinking that it's going to be a great day and get terrible news. Life is more than one genre at a time and that's how I balance it, which is to say that I just try to make it feel a little bit like life, but a little bit heightened, because it's a TV show. But I say that I am the arbiter of the tone, so sometimes we might write a version of a scene that does feel a little bit dark when we put it on its feet and we're there with Christina and Linda, sometimes we'll have them improvise a lighter exchange, we'll put that in and it feels like it balances out a little bit. So it's an organic process as we are shooting the show in terms of surfing that tonal wave."
ALSO:
Liz Feldman on Season 2's ending: "It felt like it would’ve been a bit insulting to the audience" (https://tvline.com/2020/05/12/dead-to-me-season-3-netflix-renewal-jen-judy-ben/)
Linda Cardellini and James Marsden talk Season 2's twists (https://variety.com/2020/tv/features/dead-to-me-season-2-linda-cardellini-james-marsden-ben-judy-twin-interview-1234606341/)
Dead to Me's best supporting character is wine (https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/dead-to-me-season-2-wine.html)
A guide to Dead to Me's many, many cliffhangers (https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/dead-to-me-cliffhanger-reveal-twist-episode-guide.html)
Dead to Me creator: Our "no big deal" approach to Season 2's same-sex relationship was "incredibly deliberate and purposeful" (https://tvline.com/2020/05/26/dead-to-me-natalie-morales-season-3-judy-michelle/)
“As a gay woman who has been writing a really long time, I’ve had the opportunity to tell the ‘coming out story,'" creator Liz Feldman tells TVLine. "I wanted to see a different version of it. I wanted to see a no-big-deal version of it because, to me, it is no big deal. It felt fresh to me to treat a burgeoning relationship between two women like it was totally normal."