Spears has always viewed The Neighborhood through the lens of Marty and his brother Malcolm, “two young Black men who are discovering their manhood as they go from their twenties into their thirties,” he says. “Malcolm’s arc has been the loss of his baseball career — going from being completely unemployed and feeling useless, feeling like a stereotype and feeling like he doesn’t have anywhere to go, to his slow climb back into the workforce and back into his own identity, reclaiming his manhood in that way.
“For Marty, he has a college degree, he has a career, and he’s grown up in this family where he’s admired his mom and his dad for creating this family unit, and they did it at a time when people were starting families much younger, so he feels behind the curve,” Spears posits. “He’s been looking for love because he wants to have that kind of relationship, and to have that kind of connection with someone. Now this happens, a little [sooner] than he expected… and now he has the challenge of figuring out how to become a parent” — and with someone who isn’t necessarily looking to settle down in the traditional sense.
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“Part of the thing we like about the storyline is that Marty and Courtney are explicitly not a romantic couple,” Martin explains. “Marty’s asking himself, ‘Do I have to do the right thing,’ as his parents would put it? But it doesn’t feel natural because they’ve been friends for a long time. The relationship is more ‘punch you in the arm, see you at trivia night.’ We like the idea that the pregnancy creates a collaboration where they have to figure out how to be partners in the business of raising a baby, as opposed to the push-and-pull of a romantic comedy.”
We’ll have more from our interview with Spears immediately following the conclusion of The Neighborhood’s premiere on the 12th. In the meantime, keep scrolling to see what else Martin and Schiff divulged about the strike-shortened, 10-episode season.
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