ABC’s ratings-challenged Happy Endings created a cult following thanks to its relatable stories about a group of friends in their late 20s and early 30s. While the comedy helped to launch the careers of stars Eliza Coupe (Jane), Elisha Cuthbert (Alex), Zachary Knighton (Dave), Adam Pally (Max), Damon Wayans Jr. (Brad) and Casey Wilson (Penny), behind the scenes, the Sony-produced series created by David Caspe was effectively its own showrunner training program. As Rutherford Falls creator Sierra Teller Ornelas revealed in a recent Twitter thread, Happy Endings had 23 writers over its three seasons, with an incredible 21 — including assistants — becoming showrunners.
During this week’s TV’s Top 5 podcast, hosts Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg reunite 14 of the Happy Endings writers to build off Ornelas’ thread and discuss, in light of the ongoing Writers Guild strike, the benefits of having a traditional writers rooms, why having writers on set...
During this week’s TV’s Top 5 podcast, hosts Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg reunite 14 of the Happy Endings writers to build off Ornelas’ thread and discuss, in light of the ongoing Writers Guild strike, the benefits of having a traditional writers rooms, why having writers on set...
- 6/16/2023
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jennifer Lopez is reconnecting with her action film roots, starring in the new Netflix film "The Mother." In it, she plays the titular character, a veteran and expert sniper who gives up her daughter at birth in an effort to protect her. When forces later threaten 12-year-old Zoe, Lopez jumps into action, doing everything she can to keep her daughter safe.
Dr. Frances Negrón-Muntaner, a professor at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and of Latino media studies at Columbia University, positions "The Mother" as part of how Lopez is evolving her image. Dr. Negrón-Muntaner identified to Popsugar the three stages of J Lo. In the first, "[Lopez] was doing the fight over the body beautiful, [insisting that] a woman with these proportions, a woman that's Latina, and who's racialized that way, and seen that way, can be beautiful." Think action films like "Out of Sight," Lopez's breakthrough role in the "Selena" biopic,...
Dr. Frances Negrón-Muntaner, a professor at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and of Latino media studies at Columbia University, positions "The Mother" as part of how Lopez is evolving her image. Dr. Negrón-Muntaner identified to Popsugar the three stages of J Lo. In the first, "[Lopez] was doing the fight over the body beautiful, [insisting that] a woman with these proportions, a woman that's Latina, and who's racialized that way, and seen that way, can be beautiful." Think action films like "Out of Sight," Lopez's breakthrough role in the "Selena" biopic,...
- 5/12/2023
- by Cristina Escobar
- Popsugar.com
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