The season will also feature other socially relevant discussions such as a “part 2” of the religion conversation started with Season 1’s “No Mass” episode, Kellett reveals. But also, it’s a great way to reintroduce all of the characters and say, ‘Here’s everything you need to know to enjoy the show right off the bat,'” explains Kellett. “That first scene is a reset that is using the census - which is something we wanted to talk about anyway because Latinx people and people of color tend to under-report and we like to talk about things that are important to the community. There are discussions about identification, both from a Latinx and LGBTQIA+ standpoint, which serve not only to educate the viewer on important issues around the census and what it tracks, but also on who the core characters in this show are and what values and conversations matter most to them. The Season 4 premiere, entitled “Checking Boxes,” works on both the political and the familial level when a census worker (played by guest star Ray Romano) visits the Alvarez household to update information on those who live there. “Some episodes will deal with more social and political stuff and some episodes will deal with more family stories, but they should all feel like family stories,” Royce notes. While the business around the show has hardly been usual, the goal is to ensure they are making the same heartfelt show that they did for three prior seasons. Similarly, neither wanted to approach the storylines on the new season as anything drastically different than what they had been doing all along. And it’s been the same for Pop,” Royce says. “On Netflix everything had an arc but we still saw them as individual episodes above everything and then tried to make them add up into something. Instead, they would need to incorporate act breaks into their now-weekly episodes. But, because they both come from the traditional broadcast sitcom format, that shift was slight. When Kellett and Royce first began working on Season 4 of “One Day at a Time” the biggest shift they thought their show would be facing was that it was no longer in the binge-model of Netflix. … We hope it’s the check-in our fans need and that everyone is staying safe.” “We love our fans and want them to know they are not alone,” Kellett says. The video, which you can watch exclusively above, features the cast in characters as they check in with each other from their self-quarantines, always reminding each other (and the audience) the importance of proper health measures. Then, the show’s editors put it together from home, where they are currently working remotely. They sent the script digitally to the actors, who shot their pieces on their phones and sent them back. As Kellett found herself checking in with loved ones via video apps, her husband told her, “The Alvarez family would be doing this with Schneider.” That idea sent Kellett and Royce on a slight detour from the season into a new promo “to give the fans a little comfort via the Alvarez family,” Kellett explains. The writers just log in and the writers’ assistant has the script up and we are able to do it as we would in the room, which is kind of remarkable.”īut after a planned hiatus got extended due to public health concerns, the larger “One Day at a Time” family was missing each other. “We’re in the rewriting of scripts that are already written phase, and it makes it much more viable to do it using Zoom. “Because Mike and I are both joyously anal retentive, all of our episodes were broken already,” co-creator and co-showrunner Gloria Calderón Kellett tells Variety.
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