Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet seen “California Part 2,” the second episode of the sixth season of “Superstore.”
Saying goodbye to any beloved character on a television series comes with a lot of tears, even if that series is a sitcom. In the case of NBC’s “Superstore,” the sadness wasn’t just because Amy (America Ferrera) was leaving her makeshift Cloud 9 family to take a corporate gig out in California, but also because she and Jonah (Ben Feldman) broke up before she left.
Feldman was not also leaving the show, so realistically Jonah could never go to California with Amy, despite that being their initial plan. But the reasons showrunners Jonathan Green and Gabe Miller decided Amy and Jonah should break up, rather than simply attempting long-distance, were two-fold.
“We didn’t want to be a show that has Jonah entering a scene and saying,...
Saying goodbye to any beloved character on a television series comes with a lot of tears, even if that series is a sitcom. In the case of NBC’s “Superstore,” the sadness wasn’t just because Amy (America Ferrera) was leaving her makeshift Cloud 9 family to take a corporate gig out in California, but also because she and Jonah (Ben Feldman) broke up before she left.
Feldman was not also leaving the show, so realistically Jonah could never go to California with Amy, despite that being their initial plan. But the reasons showrunners Jonathan Green and Gabe Miller decided Amy and Jonah should break up, rather than simply attempting long-distance, were two-fold.
“We didn’t want to be a show that has Jonah entering a scene and saying,...
- 11/6/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
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