The season two of Quantico will resume after a short break this week.
It is only natural that the pop-culture gets inspired by the day-to-day things affecting commoners as they are its largest consumers. So, nobody can blame the makers of ‘Quantico’ if they chose Donald Trump and his intimidating immigration policies and ‘Muslim registry’ as the storyline for its upcoming season.
According to the latest statement of showrunner Josh Safran, the Priyanka Chopra starring American series that till last season dealt with terrorism will take a detour and focus on a President Trump’s immigration policy.
The American series has been mostly dealing with fantasy-based incidents but now that Trump has proposed lock down on Muslim immigration and bizarre changes to the immigration law, the makers think that the narrative should adjust to the changing political and cultural climate.
According to reports, the narrative of the series that switches between the past and present will now be merged into a single story.
The season two of Quantico will resume after a short break this week.
When asked if the change in the narrative will force the series to follow a host of others that are already building stories after Trump, Safran said, “We are not special.â€
“If it’s a time of good prosperity, often we don’t look to politics to write about, we look to write about different times or different period of strife in people’s lives. But when there’s political upheaval or unrest in the county, artists tend to skew towards politics and how they relate to people. That’s why you’re seeing so many shows turning in that direction,†Safran said, hollywoodreporter.com reported.
“I look to ‘The Good Fight’ and their recent episode about the shelved SVU episode about Trump — they took something very specific and turned that into a story,†Safran said. “Instead of doing an over-arching, ‘We’re going to do Trump’, we’re looking at specific things, like fake news and the Muslim registry.â€
Talking about the kind of audience watching Quantico, Safran said, it is highly unlikely that Trump supporters are watching the series as it about social inclusion and where women do things that are usually done by men.
“It’s “probably unlikely†that a lot of Trump supporters are tuning into Quantico, reports Hollywood Reporter.
“It’s a show about inclusion and where the women have what would have been typically male roles. It’s all about people of color working together to do what’s right,†Safran added.
Safran said that the show believes in equal rights for women and “freedom for all†He also said that “Trumpian instincts†are directly opposite to the very nature of the show.
“You’ll probably find that 24: Legacy and partially Designated Survivor, which takes more of a bipartisan look at things, have more of a viewership that voted for Trump or who are pro-Trump than us,†he added.