During an ATX reunion panel celebrating his trailblazing MTV series Faking It, showrunner and executive producer Carter Covington expressed the opinion that the show would be much trickier to get o…
. In conversation with his collaborators, Covington admitted that the show went through “growing pains” to start, expressing his regret that it was canceled so swiftly. “I wish we had one more season to properly end it,” he said. “I still have a lot of, ‘Ugh, what we could have done.’”
At the same time, most of the conversation was focused on what the show achieved, in its relatively short time on the air, as far as groundbreaking representation of the LGBTQIA+ community. With his series, co-created by Dana Goodman and Julia Lee Wolov, Covington’s goal was to move “beyond coming out stories” to present a more full spectrum of queer experience—not tokenizing these individuals, but presenting them as their real, human, oftentimes messy selves.
One particular aspect of the show that makes Covington proud is the way it dug into the experience of the intersex community. Of particular note was the character of Lauren, played by Bailey De Young. “There had been no intersex narrative that really lasted beyond an episode of television [prior to Lauren],” Covington noted, “and no character we got to track through their experience being intersex.
“Just hearing from Carter and the writers about wanting to have a recurring intersex character and doing it in an authentic way was so heartwarming, and not the way it usually goes, so kudos to Carter and his team,” said Zieselman, who is herself intersex. “I’ll never forget watching the episodes.
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