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The cast of ‘The Golden Girls’.Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank
“Those four women were the best of the best and there was just something special about them,” he says. “I’m so glad the producers saw that’s where the heart of the show was.”
The cast of ‘The Golden Girls’ with Charles Levin as Coco (far right).Herb Ball/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty
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Zimmerman also says that he had inquired about whether the show could bring Coco back on in some capacity.“I remember bringing that up, but they felt, at the time, ‘Let it go, move forward,’” he says. “I don’t think they realized that we’d be talking about the show 30, 40 years later and picking it apart.”
Zimmerman and his writing partner James Berg were behind first season episodes like “Adult Education,” “Blanche & the Younger Man” and “Rose’s Mother,” for which they were recognized with a Writers Guild of America nomination. Decades after the finalGolden Girlsepisode aired, Zimmerman still recognizes the show’s enduring impact.“I would see waves of it where young people would come up to me and they would know every line of the show,” he says.Some might argue thatThe Golden Girlsis as popular today as it was when it originally aired — at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was streamed nearly 11 million hours, according toThe New York Times. And there’s a reason for that: Zimmerman sees the sitcom as a bridge between people.
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“It was a way for a lot of younger people to connect with their grandparents,” Zimmerman says. “And it was also a way for those in the LGBTQ community to connect with their older parents or grandparents and have a way to start a discussion about who they really were.”
source: people.com
