Executive producer Jeff Schaffer on the uncertainty ahead for the TV industry and why creating a season of CurbYourEnthusiasm in the time of coronavirus isn't as obvious as Larry David fans might think
When we’re writing episodes, we never really think, "We can’t do too many controversial things here because we’re going to do controversial things there.” We take it on a story-by-story basis. We’re building brick by brick, so we never think about the effect to the building.
The imagery of the Purell bottles going up in flames when Latte Larry's burns down certainly had a different feeling when watching than you intended when filming. You hope that the whole season is sort of an extrapolation of how we do every episode, which is that all things we set up in the beginning come full circle and connect in the end. We knew the spite store was not going to make it; we knew we had to destroy it somehow. But it wasn't until we knew other celebrities were going to have their spite stores that we figured out how to burn it down. And once we knew that Mocha Joe was going to have a spite house next door, things all fell into place.
Larry and I have been working remotely all last week. That was the first week where we left the offices and have just been FaceTiming during the day.We miss each other terribly and like to look at each other. So as we stare into each other’s eyes and, yes, every once in a while a story idea might come up. We’ve definitely been talking about stuff. There’s a lot of new world out there to explore, so we’re starting to explore.
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