'Abbott Elementary' and 'Succession' take on love and grief

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🗓️ 19 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're looking at some of the best TV of the year. Brittany Luse revisits her November 2022 conversation with Abbott Elementary writers Brittani Nichols and Joya McCrory. They talk about creating a world that feels both authentic and funny to American teachers. Then, Linda Holmes of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour stops by to chat about the television episode that had our group chats in a chokehold, and how it eloquently captured the way we experience death and grief in real life.

Note: all interviews were conducted before the 2023 Hollywood writers' and actors' strikes.

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0:00.0	You're listening to it's been a minute from NPR.
0:02.8	I'm your host, Brittany Luce.
0:05.4	I rotate a lot of different TV series
0:07.6	for both work and pleasure,
0:09.4	but if there's one show I am always caught up on,
0:12.6	it's Abbott Elementary.
0:14.1	I'm Janine Teig's, I've been teaching second grade here
0:17.1	at Abbott Elementary for a year now.
0:19.1	As a product of the Philadelphia School System,
0:21.5	I'm proud to say I survived, and now teach here today.
0:25.4	It's a workplace comedy that follows a group of teachers
0:27.8	at a Philadelphia public school.
0:29.8	It's funny, sweet, and I think it's fair to say
0:32.8	it's captured America's heart.
0:35.0	The premier episode of its second season
0:36.9	was ABC's highest rated comedy telecast in three years.
0:41.6	The show also touches on real issues
0:43.6	like underfunding and teacher retention,
0:46.2	all through the lens of humor.
0:48.5	So today we're revisiting a conversation
0:50.6	from November last year with two amazing writers
0:54.0	on the Abbott team, Brittany Nichols and Joya McQuarrie.
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