Felicity turns 20: Why The WB college drama couldn't happen today

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Keri Russell became a star with Felicity, which co-creators J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves launched on The WB on Sept. 29, 1998. Speaking this past summer, Reeves says the concept of Felicity is too simple to work on television nowadays. “I think that you need, in today’s world, a kind of access point that allows for a shell, that is the big, bright, shiny thing,” he tells Indiewire. “I feel like that in our current cycle, that you almost need that big billboard signpost that genre allows you to have — and if you have the approach to character, which I think is the most important thing, it grounds it. That mix becomes very exciting, because you’re taking something fantastical, and finding a way to ground it in something relatable.”

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