ABC’s reboot of “The Wonder Years” exists in the same universe as the original 1980s and 1990s coming-of-age sitcom, but creator and showrunner Saladin K. Patterson considers Kevi…
considers Kevin Arnold’s story, as told then, to be a parallel one to Dean Williams’ story, which is being told now.
Some of the reflection Cheadle’s narration provides includes consideration of microaggressions or other subtle racist acts such as characters not wanting to drink at a water fountain after Dean did, which the 12-year-old version of the character might have missed. But there is also opportunity to compare big political moments, from the presidency to the struggle over voting rights to war, between the decades.
“Our stories are going to be about our family through the eyes of our 12-year-old protagonist as told by his present-day self, so everything has to be about how it affected him and how it affected his family, his coming-of-age, his understanding of the world around him, his relationships,” Patterson explains. “If we start there, then sometimes by default what’s going on in the world affected that. Not every time, though.
The first season of “The Wonder Years” is set in 1968, and like the original series, the plan is to keep each season’s stories set within the same year. However, Patterson notes that the show is “going to take advantage of the fact that memory is not linear.
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