“Diwali” (with Rachna Fruchbom)

And Just Like That...The Writers Room

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After Shows, Tv & Film

4.1 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Rachna Fruchbom returns to the writers room with executive producers, Michael Patrick King, Elisa Zuritsky, and Julie Rottenberg. Together they discuss behind-the-scenes details on how Seema’s storyline came to be, including how they found the perfect NYC location for the sari shopping scene and how Rachna's own celebrations of Diwali informed its on-screen depiction. Then the group unpacks how Carrie’s dilemma with aging and Miranda’s need for change highlight one of the show’s biggest questions, “Can we stay who we were?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. This is And Just Like That, The Writers Room, the official companion podcast from HBO Max and Pineapple Street Studios.
0:19.3	I'm Michael Patrick King, executive producer, writer and director of And Just Like That. And I'm Michael Patrick King, executive producer, writer, and director of and just like that.
0:24.4	And I'm joined by executive producer and writer Lisa Zeritsky.
0:28.4	Hello, everyone.
0:29.6	And executive producer and writer Julie Rottenberg.
0:32.5	Hi, guys. Happy to be back here.
0:34.1	And, of course, we have a very special return visit from one of our homies, one of our
0:38.9	roomies, one of our new loves, Retina Fruchbrum from Burbank, California. Studio City in my closet.
0:46.9	Wow. That's so much more classy. Today we're talking about episode number six, Duvali, and here's the part where I talk about.
0:58.2	If you haven't seen episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, please stop listening right now because you're in for a party if you know what we're talking about.
1:06.2	And if not, you're just going to be confused and depressed.
1:09.1	And Duvali is what, Rechna?
1:11.8	Diwali is a celebration of light triumphing over dark.
1:15.3	I say it's like Indian Christmas, sort of.
1:17.7	And it's an awesome holiday.
1:19.3	It's an awesome holiday, very specific to Sima Patel's life.
1:24.6	Yes.
1:24.8	And very specific to both your life as a South Asian person and me as a non-South
1:31.9	Asian person who experienced a Duvali for the first time two years ago. Which was like the jumping
1:37.7	off point, I think, I mean, not that we were like, we have to do a holiday episode, but if we were,
1:43.1	it's such a cool one, and your experience of it
1:46.0	was, I think, like, the spark. Well, the idea, first of all, of finding something completely
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