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‘There Are Always Lessons’ When Making Abbott Elementary
The writers of the hit sitcom shed light on their Roomy Award-winning process.
Abbott is simultaneously warm and pointed, a reflection of Brunson’s desire to make a show that numerous generations could watch and laugh at together, and a gentle rebuke of the myriad pressures put upon public-school employees. : This happens to me a lot: I’ll have something that I’m confident will play well on its feet; then, when you’re actually filming and it doesn’t, or something gets weird, or humans aren’t able to do what is written on the page, you sometimes have to switch it in the moment. And we wanted Janine to essentially feel like she’d abandoned her post at Abbott when she got the job at the district, and then ultimately be won back by the power of teaching and the allure of that — that it was her true vocation.
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