When Zander Lehmann chose to write an episode of “Casual” envisioning the end the National Football League, it wasn’t a rash decision.
“I was terrified of the NFL in writing this,” Lehmann said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “I was basically shocked at every turn that they didn’t shut it down or say we couldn’t do this.”
The episode — pointedly titled “The Last Super Bowl” — follows the series’ de facto leads Alex (Tommy Dewey) and Valerie (Michaela Watkins) as the former hosts a spur-of-the-moment Super Bowl party in his expansive Los Angeles home. But Alex’s party isn’t celebrating the big game itself; it’s celebrating that it’s the last “big game” ever. In Lehmann’s imagined future, set approximately five years from today, “the NFL is on the one-yard-line of its demise” after the courts side with the players’ union and force the league to shut down.
“I was terrified of the NFL in writing this,” Lehmann said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “I was basically shocked at every turn that they didn’t shut it down or say we couldn’t do this.”
The episode — pointedly titled “The Last Super Bowl” — follows the series’ de facto leads Alex (Tommy Dewey) and Valerie (Michaela Watkins) as the former hosts a spur-of-the-moment Super Bowl party in his expansive Los Angeles home. But Alex’s party isn’t celebrating the big game itself; it’s celebrating that it’s the last “big game” ever. In Lehmann’s imagined future, set approximately five years from today, “the NFL is on the one-yard-line of its demise” after the courts side with the players’ union and force the league to shut down.
- 8/16/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
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