Bill Lawrence, riding a career high at 55, opens up about the 'Shrinking' finale, what's next for 'Ted Lasso' and how to fix television's star problem.
  • meathorse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    Just let the shows stay dead!

    Ted Lasso was awesome and ended well but to drag it out of retirement for one last encore is never good. There are only two options - Hollywood ‘they win the championship’ which feels forced or they don’t win but learn lessons and we’re in the same place as last season.

    You can’t recreate scrubs. They tried and failed and the same will happen here - bring back the old cast but they are much older now and it doesn’t work OR they recast it and everyone says “where are the old characters!?”.

    To my eyes, scrubs is a coming off age early 20s, first big job, learning life and who-you-are kinda show so it has to be recast but getting that magic a second time will be nearly impossible.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    191·
    3 days ago

    Can you please not destroy every single IP. Just make something called flubs and it will do just as shit.

  • Pronell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    3 days ago

    Damn, I liked the show but get sick of seeing Zach Braff and his former bestie in commercials.

    No way in hell do I want to try revisiting that. I’d just watch the old show.

    • Bldck@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      The whole quote is a totally different context than the headline:

      A lot of shows I love have had a reboot. This is my attitude: If it’s a show I love, I’m gonna watch it. If it’s great, I’m gonna be super happy. If it’s good, whatever, at least it didn’t offend me. And if it sucks, I’m gonna be super happy to badmouth how much it sucks to my friends. Not on the internet. But that’s how I watch TV. To me, that’s a no-lose. What’s the big deal?