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Damon Wayans did a guest appearance as Damon Wayans jr. character's dad in 'Happy Endings'

Did they not try this already? Am I misremembering?

Say no more - sounds awful already.

Damon Wayans will be always Michael Kyle in my eyes.

I'm not someone who gets attached to many TV shows, but Happy Endings getting canceled absolutely crushed me. I legit remember being sophomore in college when I got the news and was so bummed. Genuinely one of the best ensemble comedies of the last 20 years and I really thought it had the potential to be the next Friends. Ever since then I've been rooting for Damon Wayans but his choices haven't been the best.

Please have Eliza Coupe as one of the Love Interests.

>more than 50% of the show is showing all the characters in their previous lives

More like 20%. There's a fan edit the cuts it all into chronological order and the flashbacks take up about 20 episodes out of over 100.

This a good practical theory too

Plus they don’t have to explain social media’s reaction to the outbreak either

They have explained its because they want the show to take place in 2023. That's it. Thats the answer.

I like your tin foil hat!

Sure thing Alice.

You weirdo, using logic and stuff... Conspiracy is way more fun, said OP.

>The game took place in 2013 then it jumps 20 years in the future.

The game was released in 2013, yeah? There's nothing special about that year otherwise. So the outbreak started in present day, and the main story takes place in an alternate future.

With the show, they decided to set the main story in an alternate present. So they just subtracted 20 years from 2023.

Had they set the outbreak in 2023, then it might invite unintended logic questions related to the world's prior pandemic experience (Covid). Best to avoid of all of that and do the opposite of what the game did.

well... in 2003 we invaded this country called Iraq because it had WMD's. It had chem and bio weapons and used them freely in 1988 before we invaded. Maybe they said that one of the bio weapons got loose because Murica and bull in the china shop syndrome.

The infection started in Indonesia. The lead scientist of the situation told her government to bomb an entire city. By the time the Americans got around to it humanity already lost. No president would have been prepared. The world ended in a weekend.

stop being so naive. It's HBO, of course it was on their mind

Because HBO and Druckman are woke unhinged liberals. It's intentional and aligns with their politics. Did you notice the "Not today you New World Order jack boot fucks" and 'Don't Tread on Me' poster from Episode Three? How Bill is a Qanon, bigoted, closeted conservative until saved by an enlightened liberal gay man? HBO is great but you have to accept most of their stuff is loaded with woke garbage points of view. It's been especially egregious since 2016 when Trump broke them but it's always been present. You learn to ignore it as long as it's well written and produced. When HBO is "on" they're the best in the business

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This is too political, man. Nobody was thinking like that when they wrote it.

If they wanted to do this, it would be under Trump. They would show Trump touring the cereal plant and tell you that it came from there 100%.

If you want politics. The State of the Union just happened. Here is Beau of the Fifth Column's take on it. https://youtu.be/SYeB7fPCK5I

It’s not that deep bro, I’m pretty sure they answered this too- it’s because of smart phones

They didn’t want smart phones, or tech like that, to be a factor at all in the story

Conspiracy thinking at it's purest, missing the completely obvious fact the show is set in 2023 and instead going down some bat-shit rabbit hole looking for a political angle.

Things have changed a lot in the last 20 years. I wonder if the show will have characters with the same opinions and values as they had in 2003? Time has passed but I can't see things like Me Too, BLM, etc having occurred during the outbreak.

> Is there a political angle to having the TV show outbreak happen in 2003 ?

No.