Call your mother creator Kari Lizer shared that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic impacted her new ABC sitcom, starring Kyra Sedgwick, in more ways than one.
Writing and executive production by New adventures of old Christine creator, ABC’s new comedy takes place in a world that survived the fatal Covid-19 pandemic, which in fact continues to spread in parts of the country. The sitcom characters roam freely without masks or the need for social distance in this post-Covid world – a scenario that arose out of a desire for some normality, said Lizer.
“Covid is part of the world, we just made the decision to start the series after we were all quarantined and masked because, frankly, we were fed up with it,” said Lizer during the panel.
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Turning around Sedgwick’s unique, empty nest, which travels across the country to reinsert itself in the lives of its children; Call your mother do not pretend that the dark months of illness and infection do not exist. Instead, the series uses quarantine and feelings of isolation to heighten Jean Raines’ (Sedgwick) desperation to reunite with her children.
“We talked about what the quarantine was like for Jean; in fact, it kind of intensified her experience of being separated from her children and impacted the level of her feeling of disconnection from her children, ”added Lizer.
During the panel, Lizer, Sedgwick and castmates, including Joey Bragg and Rachel Sennott, explained that Call your mother it is not just reactivating the faded connection with loved ones. The series also advocates building new relationships at a time when calls to Zoom and socially distant dates and celebrations became the new normal.
“We are at a time when we feel disconnected. I think that just the state of the world, the state of the pandemic, made everyone feel really isolated, ”added Lizer. “I think this is a program about people who feel they have lost connection with each other, a program about people trying to find themselves again.”
Call your mother it also stars Patrick Brammall, Emma Caymares and Austin Crute. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television & ABC Signature together with 20th Television and Touchstone Television.
Call your mother opens on ABC on January 13 at 9:30 pm PST.