#tracey wigfield

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My peak tv Journey *Saved by the Bell*

I loved the Peacock Saved by the Bell reboot. I saw the first season when it was briefly not behind paywall right before the second season. I did not upgrade to a paid version, and it was cancelled. But then there was a special subscription rate that I did upgrade for and the second season was the first thing I watched. Now I really can be disappointed that it was cancelled!

I have started to become interested in how different fandoms are on different social media. A romance popular on Facebook can be derided on Twitter. While when I see posts on here that love the reboot, when I watch clips on YouTube where the original and reboot versions are compared to each other the comments tend to say things like “I only laughed at the scenes from the original, who is the news show even for?” Which made me wonder if the new version is for people who don’t like the original. I remembered a review of the first season on Vox focused author Aja Romano’s bafflement about who the target audience is, which helped create this idea in me. That said, I’m clearly the audience for this show and I’m not someone who hates the original.

I remember being kind of obsessed with the original when in was on in syndication seemingly everyday after school and occasional weekend mornings. It was fascinating. I often wanted assurances that kids older than I were not like that. But I had to be invested enough that I was was shocked when Kelly dumped Zack for Jeff, and generally think it was silly that Slater went after Kelly so much while his real sparks were with Jesse. Also most of the treatment of Screech was mean. And Lisa was often treated as an afterthought. I’m the kind of former viewer for whom that the Funny or Die series Zack Morris is Trash was made. And realizing that the guy behind that, Dashiell Driscoll, was also working on this was promising for me, if discouraging for others. And I like Tracey Wigfield from her other word from 30 Rock to Great News. Eventually I found a YouTube comment cursing the “wokeness” and “predictability” of of the new show while clearly not having watched even the clip that on which they were commenting and getting everything about in their predictions wrong. I stopped worrying about what these comments said about who the show was for and filed this to my continual anxiety about reactionary backlash to any programming that doesn’t center on straight, cis, white male characters.

The Peacock SBTB is self consciously a tv series in a way that the original wasn’t. Characters from the original make jokes about the lack of continuity in the old series including family members who showed up once only never to be heard from again and  the fact that it started as a different series set in Indiana then became the SBTB we know and was in CA.  In the new cast of characters, Zack and Kelly’s son Mac is a prankster who is self conscious about living up to the legend of his father. The series’s inciting incident involves kids from the underfunded Douglas High School being bussed to Bayside on the order of Governor Zack Morris, and these characters frequently comment on how the in world things from the original are weird and a sign of them being very wealthy.

Jesse and Slater are the only members of the original cast to an appear on every episode and they are really well used. They are there to mostly support the new kids who are the real stars. When they had more of the old cast back an were highlighting them, the show was on weak footing.  I really didn’t like the home coming episode in the first season where they wondered where they wonder why their friendships don’t feel real like earlier. The Screech memorial scene was necessary and sweet, so I can’t judge it. The second season’s career fair episode was slightly better than the homecoming one. There was a whole subplot to make meta jokes Elizabeth Berkley being in Showgirls and its reception. I appreciate that she went there. The jokes were uneven and they mostly left me feeling sad.  

As I said the real stars are the kids, and they as great. I especially like the girls Daisy and Aisha and their aspirational friendship. I love the details like their occasional slipping into Spanish, and that they have had multiple conversations about which pro basketball players cheat on their wives. They’re supportive of each other’s craziness and ambitions. I loved watching them.

Of the Douglas High School students Devonte feels underutilizing. Some of that was about emphasizing that he’s kind of a loner, uninterested in the drama of the other main characters. It made sense that he’d be the one to have a long term romantic relationship with a reoccurring character. Whenever he is in the spotlight he’s a consistent delight, and it made me miss him.

As for the Bayside kids, they’re wonderfully incapable of being self conscious. They’re ridiculous, but worthy of sympathy. I liked them best when when they interacted the Douglas kids. 

The second season had a few message episodes about facing transphobia, racism, financial anxiety. They were notably earnest and not at all like it would have been done on the original series. 

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I loved this quote from "Big Shot (Nothing Like I Imagined)" by Mindy Kaling -

"“Women always take bad behavior by men and twist it to make it so it’s somehow our fault, not theirs. It makes more sense to us that we’re somehow wrong than the possibility that a man is being rude.”"

-Tracey Wigfield

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Steve Carell and Tina Fey will co star in an upcoming Netflix adaption of the 1981 film THE FOUR SEASONS

Tina Fey will lead the project alongside Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield.

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#SteveCarell y #TinaFey protagonizaran serie de #Netflix #TheFourSeasons √

Steve Carell (The Morning Show) ha sido elegido para protagonizar junto a Tina Fey The Four Seasons, la serie de comedia de Netflix basada en la película de Universal de 1981 del mismo nombre, que co-creó con sus antiguos colegas de 30 Rock, Lang Fisher y Tracey Wigfield.  Steve Carell / Imagen cortesía Robert Ascroft Carell llega al proyecto después de protagonizar junto a Fey la comedia Date…

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Tina Fey marks her return to small screen as lead in ‘The Four Seasons’

Tina Fey, a fan favourite and 30 Rock creator, is all set to return to the small screen with her lead role in Netflix’s comedy series ‘The Four Seasons,’ Deadline reported. The eight-episode series will be based on the 1981 feature film. The series is co-created with fellow 30 Rock alums Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield. The Four Seasons series is written by Fey, Fisher, and Wigfield, who is an…

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Saved by the Bell (prod. Tracey Wigfield).

It’s impressive how the producers were able to recreate much of the original show’s dated charm while simultaneously parodying it and updating many of its flaws all the while bringing it into the contemporary world thirty years later. Enough of the new characters echo the familiar stereotypes the ‘90s Saturday morning teen show was so famous for while putting us into a modern perspective, as seen through minorities of a lower economic class, but still riff on the schemes and trivial plotlines we’ve become nostalgic for.

This new class is dripping with plenty of appeal from its reunion elements peppered throughout the season anchored by smart new ideas and character development wrapped in today’s issues of equality and acceptance. It’s still very much silly fun with a hokey, wholesome message, but there’s clearly an underlying sophistication and irony that’s just as good.

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[hopscotchfriday]

Episode 111: Saved by the Bell 2020

Shhh. This podcast has a kitten now - don't wake her. 

Anyway, dozing cats aside, this episode Stevie and Emmet discuss the revamped Saved by the Bell, with returning stars Elizabeth Berkley, Mario Lopez, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Tiffani Thiessen alongside a new cast of students returning to Bayside High. 

And you know what? We loved it. Courtesy of writer/producer Tracey Wigfield and a game cast of actors, this is less a nostalgia-fest, and more an attempt to repair and restore a property with plenty of problematic elements that was simultaneously innocuous - and question why that was. 

It's smart and fun stuff people, and pretty underrated as a show. 

Hopscotch Friday is relaunching - as a podcast. So join us, Stevie and Emmet, for a pop culture discussion of deep cuts and pillow talk.

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❗️please watch Great News❗️

1x03 ″Chuck Pierce Is Blind”

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(c) The Orchard

(c) Fine Films

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mindykaling: Summer Fridays 💙 @ hulu press day for @ 4WeddingsOnHulu!

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I’m watching Hulu’s Four Weddings and A Funeral and I love Gemma, she’s my favorite

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mindykaling: Where Billy Shears? We ready