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Quinta Brunson and ‘Abbott Elementary’ EPs Talk Season 3 Plot Twist and Writing a Post-Strike Time Jump in ‘the Most Philly Way’
Quinta Brunson and 'Abbott Elementary' showrunners Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker break down the Season 3 premiere.
So in the Season 3 premiere, it’s revealed that after following Janine (Brunson), Gregory (Tyler James Williams) and Jacob (Chris Perfetti) to an after-work hang in a “a rough area” at the start of the school year, the crew got robbed. Initially, it seemed that the arc would require several episodes of setup, but the strike-induced time jump helped her pull it off in a matter of minutes by packing it into a “fun premiere full of things you wouldn’t expect. Though the teachers of Abbott Elementary have been begging Ava to actually do her job since she started as principal, they’re horrified that she’s all of a sudden begun enforcing arbitrary district mandates and taking away free periods to increase productivity.
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