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    ‘And Simply Like That’ Writers Tackle the Twice-Lifeless Dad Controversy… However Continuity Errors Aren’t New

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    The writers and executives producers of “And Simply Like That…” Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky weren’t precisely anticipating the viewers response when Lisa Todd Wexley’s (Nicole Ari Parker) father died… for seemingly the second time. In any case within the first season, Lisa actually stated, “I used to be precisely the identical when my father died final yr.” Within the present season, years later, her father (Billy Dee Williams) died once more, and she or he attended the funeral. HBO shortly defined this time her actual father died and earlier than it was her stepfather, and Rottenberg and Zuritsky informed THR that it was an indication of simply how decrease the viewers are.

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    “That was stunning to me,” Zuritsky stated. “It’s the shut viewing, however that comes again to the connection that folks have with the present.”

    “You need shut viewers,” Rottenberg added. “We all know our viewers are good and paying consideration, and also you need that. Then typically, the factor that you simply want individuals would take note of, they don’t. You simply by no means know. It’s kind of like being a father or mother. You carry these youngsters into the world and then you definitely hope for one of the best. And then you definitely’re fortunate sufficient, as we’re, to have an enormous viewers, a really passionate and expressive viewers who will not be afraid to precise their emotions.”

    It’s humorous to assume {that a} couple a long time in the past, earlier than social media drove a flutter of simply accessible and extremely public discourse round any given sequence, {that a} slip-up (or an assumed slip-up) won’t have even been observed. Or, if it was observed, few followers would’ve bothered to write down a letter to the community.

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    As any true binge-watcher of traditional tv is aware of — and I suppose TV‘s classical interval is now simply merely outlined as pre-streaming — inconsistencies as soon as occurred the common. Continuity, explicit in episodic tv, wasn’t that necessary —particularly it retconning helped facilitate a very good visitor spot or a brand new common when a present goes south.

    “The Golden Women” might be one of many worst offenders of the highest tier of TV. Think about this: Dorothy and Stan needed to get married proper out of highschool as a result of Dorothy obtained pregnant with their daughter Kate, who seems to be 30-ish once we meet her in a 1985 episode. However Dorothy and Stan have been divorced for a number of years and had been married for 38 years. Make that math work.

    And what number of youngsters did Blanche have? She lists 5 at one level, we do meet a pair (together with one who will get recast on her second look). However how did she elevate all these youngsters to then be an empty nester by the point the present began in 1985… and nonetheless have triggered a supposed ruckus as a single girl on the 1964 Democratic Conference solely 21 years prior?

    However we are able to’t simply decide on our favourite Miami girls. There’s additionally “Household Issues,” who stole a web page from the “Completely happy Days” playbook and deleted a toddler from the household after a number of seasons (Judy and Chuck, respectively). It’s additionally extraordinarily unclear as to when Tom and Lynette moved to Wisteria Lane in “Determined Housewives.” Why did Topanga’s mother and father preserve getting recast on “Boy Meets World?” The “That 70’s Present” timeline is unnecessary. And on the dad topic, Dr. Frasier Crane’s father was lifeless on “Cheers,” and really clearly alive on “Frasier.”

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    “Intercourse and the Metropolis” itself was inconsistent — I imply, why doesn’t Carrie break the fourth wall like she did to start with?

    The purpose is, if it issues, that even when “And Simply Like That” actually supposed a retcon, there’s loads of precedent to rewrite a narrative level mid-series. We simply didn’t have the huge sources to note within the olden days.

    And what’s a continuity error between mates? And even on “Buddies” (don’t get me began on their shifting birthdays or the variety of instances Rachel met Chandler in flashback episodes).



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