{"id":468570,"date":"2022-06-29T00:17:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-upshaws-creator-on-season-2-the-beauty-of-multi-cam-sitcoms\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T00:17:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T21:17:12","slug":"the-upshaws-creator-on-season-2-the-beauty-of-multi-cam-sitcoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-upshaws-creator-on-season-2-the-beauty-of-multi-cam-sitcoms\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;The Upshaws&#8217; Creator on Season 2 &#038; the Beauty of Multi-Cam Sitcoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f9d2326eed\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f9d2326eed\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-upshaws-creator-on-season-2-the-beauty-of-multi-cam-sitcoms\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Upshaws_Creator_on_Season_2_the_Beauty_of_Multi-Cam_Sitcoms%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Upshaws&#8217; Creator on Season 2 &#038; the Beauty of Multi-Cam Sitcoms&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Upshaws_Creator_on_Season_2_the_Beauty_of_Multi-Cam_Sitcoms%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Upshaws&#8217; Creator on Season 2 &#038; the Beauty of Multi-Cam Sitcoms&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div> In a world of single-cam comedies, Regina Y. Hicks says be a multi-cam. <em>The Upshaws <\/em>Season 2 premieres Wednesday, June 29 on Netflix. Ahead of its release, the creator chatted with TV Insider about what\u2019s to come for Regina (Kim Fields) and Bennie Upshaw (Mike Epps) and their family, plus what it\u2019s like to make a multi-cam sitcom in 2022 compared to her past shows like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tvinsider.com\/show\/insecure\/\"><em>Insecure<\/em><\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tvinsider.com\/show\/girlfriends\/\"><em>Girlfriends<\/em><\/a>, and <em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tvinsider.com\/show\/sister-sister\/\">Sister, Sister<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"MuiTypography-root-139 jss47 jss184 jss47 Hawkins-Text-default jss185 jss187 jss194 MuiTypography-body1-141\">\n<p>In <em>The Upshaws<\/em>, Bennie is the charming, well-intentioned head of a Black working class family in Indianapolis. The mechanic and \u201clifelong mess\u201d is trying his best to step up and care for his family all without a blueprint for success. The family\u2019s comprised of Bennie, wife Regina, their two young daughters, Aaliyah and Maya (Khali Spraggins and Journey Christine), firstborn son Bernard (Jermelle Simon), teenage son Kelvin (Diamond Lyons) \u2014 who Bennie fathered with another woman (Gabrielle Dennis) \u2014 and sardonic sister-in-law Lucretia Turner (Wanda Sykes). But the family is determined to make it work, and make it to the next level, together.<\/p>\n<p>In Season 2 Part 1, the family continues to ride life\u2019s ups and downs together, including new loves, old flames, big dreams, big changes, and all the love and drama that comes with a big family. And it will all pick up where the Season 1 cliffhanger left off, which found another child claiming to be an Upshaw strolling up to Bennie and Regina\u2019s front door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the stuff we established in Season 1, we expanded on in Season 2. We had 16 episodes (there\u2019s a Part A, Part B) to do that, so we had fun,\u201d Hicks says of the new installment. \u201cOnce you establish the groundwork, Season 2 was so easy to write.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here, she breaks down what to expect.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s coming up this season for the Upshaw family?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Regina Y. Hicks:<\/strong> A lot of good, solid, funny family moments. In the first season, we saw Regina and Bennie struggle with Bennie trying to be the best version of himself. He stumbles and falls constantly on that. This season, we see him be more of a stand-up guy, but of course, circumstance and other people always influence the best of intentions. We\u2019ll see things, sometimes out of his control, test him constantly in a different way. We\u2019ll see him still trying to keep it together and being the guy his wife wants him to be. We have some pretty funny setups and scenarios to get in his way in that journey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a> of the season?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good intentions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1050235\" style=\"width: 2038px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1050235\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1050235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UPSHAWS_201_Unit_00646RC.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Epps as Bennie, Kim Fields as Regina in episode 201 of The Upshaws\" width=\"2028\" height=\"1352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UPSHAWS_201_Unit_00646RC.jpg 2028w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UPSHAWS_201_Unit_00646RC-434x289.jpg 434w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UPSHAWS_201_Unit_00646RC-855x570.jpg 855w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UPSHAWS_201_Unit_00646RC-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UPSHAWS_201_Unit_00646RC-234x155.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/UPSHAWS_201_Unit_00646RC-570x380.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2028px) 100vw, 2028px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1050235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Rose\/Netflix<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Are you doing anything this season you had to scrap last season?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We told the full story we wanted to tell last year. What we\u2019re doing this year is taking a lot of moments from last year and continuing them on. Regina going back to school, the relationship between Regina and Bennie. Bernard has come out in our first season and is wanting to explore that world a little bit more\/who he is. There are more people from that world for him.<\/p>\n<p>We teased how Aaliyah feels about popularity in school, so we really took that and ran with it this season. We love how LaCretia\u2019s always there for the family, so we took that and made that a lot for her this season, like what that looks like when you\u2019re constantly there for your family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DYW_amEowbY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DYW_amEowbY<\/a><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"\/><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Upshaws<\/em> is a classic sitcom format similar to \u201990s and early 2000s shows. What\u2019s it like working on <em>The Upshaws<\/em> in comparison to <em>Girlfriends<\/em> or <em>Sister, Sister<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same structure-wise \u2014 they\u2019re all multi-cams. Where <em>The Upshaws<\/em> veers off is because it is set firmly in 2022. And because it\u2019s Netflix, we get to truly, truly be a snapshot where you didn\u2019t get to be on network television. This is truly a snapshot of, if you were walking past a house in Indiana today and you opened the door, we would like to think it would be like this family.<\/p>\n<p>With the situations, the language, with how family members deal with each other, we get to touch on that real realm that we were kind of doing with <em>Girlfriends<\/em> and <em>Sister, Sister<\/em>, but it\u2019s tempered with a bit of network, whereas this is not. We get to really sit on the sofa with that family in a way we couldn\u2019t back in the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you want to return to the sitcom format with <em>The Upshaws<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so funny, because single-cam comedy was being associated with highbrow, but multi-cam is very difficult to write. It\u2019s hard to find people who do it well. If it\u2019s not done well, people can sour on it. It\u2019s really dialogue-dependent sometimes, and if you don\u2019t have really good, strong comedy writers, it suffers, because then you\u2019re depending on laughs. If somebody doesn\u2019t find it funny, you have to put the laughs in, and it\u2019s kind of subjective in that way. Somebody watching is like, \u201cI hear the laughs, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s funny.\u201d I think it suffers in that way, so I think it\u2019s a hard genre to do, and I just think we do it well. I\u2019m such a fan of multi-cam done well, and the ones that have done well, they thrive. I think it\u2019s the most difficult of all of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Being such an old format, it\u2019s hard to make yourself unique.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. We kept saying, \u201cWe\u2019re not trying to reinvent the comedy wheel, it\u2019s there. But just park it firmly where we live today.\u201d There was a time when I was feeling down a couple nights ago. I turned on a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tvinsider.com\/show\/frasier\/\"><em>Frasier<\/em><\/a> [episode], and I was laughing out loud. I feel like multi-cams make you laugh out loud where other things just don\u2019t. That\u2019s the kind of television I want to write. It\u2019s the kind of television I grew up with.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1050234\" style=\"width: 2038px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1050234\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1050234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/TheUpshaws_Season2Part1_Episode1_00_03_30_07RC.jpg\" alt=\"Wanda Sykes as Lucretia, Jermelle Simon as Bernard in episode 201 of The Upshaws\" width=\"2028\" height=\"1140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/TheUpshaws_Season2Part1_Episode1_00_03_30_07RC.jpg 2028w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/TheUpshaws_Season2Part1_Episode1_00_03_30_07RC-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/TheUpshaws_Season2Part1_Episode1_00_03_30_07RC-1014x570.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/TheUpshaws_Season2Part1_Episode1_00_03_30_07RC-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/TheUpshaws_Season2Part1_Episode1_00_03_30_07RC-1420x798.jpg 1420w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/TheUpshaws_Season2Part1_Episode1_00_03_30_07RC-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/TheUpshaws_Season2Part1_Episode1_00_03_30_07RC-570x320.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2028px) 100vw, 2028px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1050234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Netflix<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>What has changed about making a sitcom now vs. in the 90s and 2000s?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, right now, the lack of audience. [<em>Laughs<\/em>] There\u2019s not as many [shows]. It\u2019s so funny, because they\u2019re hard to do in a certain way, but so easy to do in another way, and I\u2019m surprised there\u2019s not more of them. Even finding good multi-cam directors or people who write really funny \u2014 not just scenes that are funny but really funny words. Making it was not that much different.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What about multi-cams makes them easier to make, as you said?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easier to have a dedicated soundstage with sets that you use from week to week and keep people in that proscenium. When you do single camera, it\u2019s more time consuming. The [multi-cam] week is very easy. I don\u2019t know why every actor in the world wouldn\u2019t want that schedule \u2014 it\u2019s the best schedule in television. You\u2019re home so early, for an actor. You can shoot the whole show in one to two days. There\u2019s nothing that exists like that. I worked on <em>Insecure<\/em>, and that\u2019s a six- to seven-day show.<\/p>\n<p>I just think there\u2019s nothing like an audience. Talk to any actor or writer\/producer who\u2019s done multi-cam, there\u2019s nothing like what we call \u201cshow night.\u201d You can\u2019t recreate it. It is a magical night. COVID tried to draw the curtain on it, but some shows are coming back, because you just can\u2019t step away.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve worked in multi-cam, if you\u2019ve stood and listened to that audience with that instant feedback and how it just puts energy on a set and into actors, there\u2019s just nothing like it. It is magical. There\u2019s nothing like standing on that stage on show night, and I refuse, refuse to give that up.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Upshaws<\/strong><\/em><strong>, Season 2 Part 1 Premiere, Wednesday, June 29, Netflix<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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