If 2020 were a TV script, how would it end??

We all can agree 2020 has been an unprecedented year around the globe. The Covid-19 Pandemic spread chaos and the unknown into full throttle across the planet and it certainly has opened floodgates for new story ideas.

2020 reads like a TV script. So we asked screenwriters how it should end. 
Source: (The Washington Post)

October 27, 2020; 3:00am

Maura Judkis of The Washington Post writes:

If 2020 were a TV show, the first draft would be terrible. The premise is promising — what happens when political dysfunction meets a deadly virus? — but the execution needs work. Think about how messy it all has been: competing plotlines, too-abrupt soap opera twists, one-dimensional villains, stories introduced and then just as quickly dropped.

Like it or not, we’re barreling toward the finale, and no one knows what’s going to happen in the last episode. Will there be a satisfying ending? Or one of those unsettling, ambiguous ones that gnaws at you long after you’ve finished the show? Will it be an ending at all?

Hollywood screenwriters have been thinking about that, too.

"This experience is very much kind of a joke that we make a lot in the writers' room," says Bruce Miller, the showrunner of "The Handmaid's Tale" on Hulu. The joke being: If all the crazy stuff that's happening in the world right now were a show, what kind of show would it be? It could be a comedy, tragedy, dystopian thriller, political and legal drama, medical procedural, apocalyptic fiction, horror, and satire, or all of those rolled into one.

But mostly, what it has is a completely bonkers plot. Remember all the stuff that has happened this year: The virus, the lockdowns, George Floyd, the massive civil rights marches, Lafayette Square, Elmhurst Hospital. The conflagration of the American West, the destruction of the American economy, the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The president getting impeached, the president getting sick, the New York Times getting the president’s tax returns. Brexit and Megxit. Whistleblowers. Superspreaders. Murder hornets!

The Post asked five screenwriters to tell us what they’d do with this doomed script: how they’d shape it into something watchable, and how they think it should end (not necessarily how they’d want it to end, mind you).

Spoilers — maybe? — to follow.

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