ET spoke with austinwinsberg, the creator of ZoeysPlaylist about real-life inspirations and what viewers can expect in Sunday's episode. ZoeysPlaylist
whose real life the series takes inspiration from"I think that because the show is upbeat, and comedic at times, and joyful, and really about compassion and empathy, some of those ideas are resonating with people right now," Winsberg tells ET ahead of Sunday's episode. "Maybe there is mood for fare that isn't as heavy or dark, even though we have dramatic and emotional moments in the show. Maybe there's an emotional catharsis in the show too for people.
It's helpful then that the featured music, often a gateway to bridging differences,"is connecting with people," Winsberg says. The series has staged ambitious song-and-dance routines to The Proclaimers'"I'm Gonna Be ," Gnarls Barkley's"Crazy," Brandy's"The Boy Is Mine," to name just a few."Hopefully, people are coming at it from different perspectives and points of view, and finding things that they're responding to.
"Simon is the character we've used for the grief connection and grief bonding over the course of the season. I think he is somebody who is stuck in many ways and spends a lot of time looking backwards, and he has a hard time letting go of what happened to his dad," Winsberg says."He's got a lot of emotion in his own anger built into his father's suicide. I think that his own emotional turmoil is part of what contributed to his breakup with Jessica.
"He does a couple of things in episodes nine and 10 that are a little bit more petty or a little bit more reactive emotionally because he is an emotional person and he's reacting to feeling slighted by Zoey and maybe taking it out on her in the wrong ways," he adds. "But it's how he's dealing with expressing himself by being so vulnerable, by telling her that he loved her and not getting the response [he wanted] from her.
."There are scenes that Simon and Max have down the line and they have some difficult conversations." alum acknowledged that there could have been an easy path for him and Stewart to approach the "mano-a-mano" scenes."There's an obvious way to play all those scenes; they can be sizing each other up, looking at each other up and down, a game-on type of mentality. John and I have never seen it that way," Astin explained.
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