And the conversation had really centered around the idea of making these big life decisions. And we landed on the idea of building the “then” and the “now” around weddings, because getting married is one of the biggest decisions you make in your life. The executive producers and I started talking about the notion of having an opportunity to live your life over knowing everything you know now. What was the initial idea behind Hindsight? Even if you could do your life over again, how would know what you’d be fixing and what you’d be ruining? Is hindsight even a good thing? Isn’t there a reason we don’t know the future, or that people in stories who know the future always wind up going Cassandra-insane or wishing they hadn’t known after all? I talked to showrunner Emily Fox about what it would be like to be a 2015 woman in a 1995 world, why audiences are so nostalgic for the nineties, and how Hindsight came to be. Hindsight uses time travel the way Buffy used vampires: as a way of getting at something more interesting and real. “I Saw the Sign” is blasting out of her alarm clock and, wouldn’t you know it, she’s 20 years in the past and is about to marry her first husband and embark on a marriage she already knows will self-destruct. And then she passes out in an elevator and wakes up to the sweet, sweet sounds of Ace of Base. But everything else about her life has not quite worked out as she hoped: she’s a glorified assistant for a tyrannical boss, she’s been estranged from her closest girlfriend for years, she is unfulfilled, disappointed, and lost. Becca (Laura Ramsey from She’s the Man, some of Channing Tatum’s earliest, and finest, comedic work) is supposed to rise and shine on the day of her second wedding, to a secure, handsome childhood friend. It’s more of a “what if I could do it all over again?” story, about the choices we make and if we’d actually do better with the benefit of maturity, experience, and (…wait for it) hindsight. Hindsight, which premiered last week on VH1, isn’t exactly a time travel story, even though it centers around a woman who does, in fact, start the pilot in 2015 and wake up in 1995. But the very thing that makes time travel one of the worst superpowers to desire in real life is what makes it so attractive for storytelling: there are so many ways to make everything go awry. We’re all probably better off without DeLoreans, time turners and the like it’s too easy to accidentally erase your family and/or destroy the world. Everybody knows that time travel is risky, dangerous, high-stakes sci-fi-magic.
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