Showtime’s Work In Progress, like its main character, has experienced its own growth since Season 1. During Showtime’s TCA panel on Wednesday, Work In Progress star and co-creator Abby …
“I had a trailer, you guys. It was a big deal,” McEnany joked., which debuted on August 22, picks up from its previous chapter with Abby coping with her break from Chris and adjusting to life with best friend-turned-roommate Campbell. Upon returning for Season 2, McEnany said she felt more confident going into creative process and production.
“Last year was my first real professional job in the front of the camera and everything was brand new,” she reflected. “Coming into this season…I definitely understand more. To be able to bring in other folks to share the writing – the people we brought in are so wonderful, smart, empathetic and I trust them. I really felt my brain and my heart were in good hands.”Season 2 delves deeper into the relationships and backgrounds of everyone in Abby’s closest circle.
creative team also spoke about how the comedy handles the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. “It was just something that felt like a nice thing to be able to exercise – to write about this collective trauma, but do it in a way that we had a little more perspective on it,” she said. “Here we are still over a year later, and the body count is still rising, it’s hideous. It’s not something we wanted to enter into lightly.”team “understood that it would have been a grievous mis-service to the human toll that was happening in that movement, to not talk about it.
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