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TMC · 10-11-2021, 10:41 PM

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New showrunner Meg DeLoatch says tonight's episode, focusing on Beth Behrs’ Gemma, is personal. “As a person who’s experienced miscarrying a child, I know firsthand the profound sadness that accompanies such a loss and how it’s compounded by the feeling that it should be a private grief that you don’t talk about," she said in a statement to TVLine. "Having such a joyous couple as Dave and Gemma experience such a painful tragedy, illustrates that unfortunately it can happen to anyone, that it’s normal to grieve and with the loving support of Calvin and Tina, it’s important to talk about it. Also, by dealing with it on a multi-cam comedy, it makes it an ordinary human condition, worthy of attention, discussion and normalization.”

The Neighborhood star Beth Behrs and showrunner Meg DeLoatch discuss portraying a miscarriage

DeLoatch used her own experience in writing last night's emotional episode. "When I first wrote it, no one else saw it but me, right? So it was cool to write it for myself," she tells TVLine. "I’m rarely unable to find any humor in a situation, so even though that was one of the hardest, darkest times in my life… there were still going to be jokes. By the time we as a group worked on it, and everyone got a chance to chime in and make notes, it was a sweeter episode. Not as edgy as when I put it together. (laughs)." Behrs says of reading the script: "The moment I read the last two scenes, I was fully weeping. I then read them to my husband, who also began to well up. Then I immediately texted Meg and just said, 'Thank you for this beautiful episode.'"

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TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 124,452	The Neighborhood to tackle the tragedy of suffering a miscarriage https://tvline.com/2021/09/30/the-ne...-4-cbs-comedy/ New showrunner Meg DeLoatch says tonight's episode, focusing on Beth Behrs’ Gemma, is personal. “As a person who’s experienced miscarrying a child, I know firsthand the profound sadness that accompanies such a loss and how it’s compounded by the feeling that it should be a private grief that you don’t talk about," she said in a statement to TVLine. "Having such a joyous couple as Dave and Gemma experience such a painful tragedy, illustrates that unfortunately it can happen to anyone, that it’s normal to grieve and with the loving support of Calvin and Tina, it’s important to talk about it. Also, by dealing with it on a multi-cam comedy, it makes it an ordinary human condition, worthy of attention, discussion and normalization.” The Neighborhood star Beth Behrs and showrunner Meg DeLoatch discuss portraying a miscarriage DeLoatch used her own experience in writing last night's emotional episode. "When I first wrote it, no one else saw it but me, right? So it was cool to write it for myself," she tells TVLine. "I’m rarely unable to find any humor in a situation, so even though that was one of the hardest, darkest times in my life… there were still going to be jokes. By the time we as a group worked on it, and everyone got a chance to chime in and make notes, it was a sweeter episode. Not as edgy as when I put it together. (laughs)." Behrs says of reading the script: "The moment I read the last two scenes, I was fully weeping. I then read them to my husband, who also began to well up. Then I immediately texted Meg and just said, 'Thank you for this beautiful episode.'"
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