Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen Liz Feldman and her writers’ room were working on the second season of “Dead to Me,” child separation at the border was dominating news headlines.
Given that the majority of her room is made up of mothers, the writer and executive producer says such news was “weighing really heavily” and “almost subconsciously one of the throughlines of the season became the injury you can do to a person by separating them from their mother.”This manifested as deep emotional wounds for both of the Netflix comedy’s leading ladies: It was revealed that Jen (Christina Applegate) had lost her mother to cancer when she was just a teenager, while Judy’s (Linda Cardellini) mother (guest star Katey Sagal) was an.
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