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‘Good Trouble’ Showrunner Joanna Johnson Breaks Down Series Finale; Cast Reflects On Its Legacy After 5 Seasons


Joanna Johnson, as well as the Good Trouble cast, spoke with Deadline about the series coming to an end

And I heard in about October, I think, that our pickup wasn’t necessarily guaranteed…right before the holidays, Simran Sethi [EVP of Programming and Content Strategy, ABC Studios], who had been fighting so hard for us and deserves a huge shout out, she called me and very graciously said how sorry she was that they weren’t going to be able to produce any more episodes of Good Trouble. Our girls, Callie and Mariana, Maia and Cierra, they were like, ‘Okay, we’re gonna lose it with this last bit of it.’ And they said, ‘How far you want us to go?’ And so we said, ‘Let’s do a couple where you hold back, and then after that, let it go.’ We ended up using the takes where they let it go more. DEADLINE: I’ve recently spoken with both of them about The Fosters and Good Trouble, specifically the bold stories both series told that weren’t very present on TV at the time.

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