How 'Fleishman Is in Trouble' Re-created 2016 New York

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( on location [How ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ Re-created 2016 New York]( In bringing Fleishman Is in Trouble’s 2016 city to 2022 screens, I learned how to avoid the nostalgia trap. Photo: Courtesy of FX The decision to set Fleishman Is in Trouble, the limited-series adaptation of my novel, in 2016 — the year I wrote it — came from necessity, both practical and creative. The Fleishman of the title is a doctor, and to inject COVID into his story would affect nearly every aspect of the plot. Plus, the pandemic was very much still playing out. Plus, the Trump presidency would have affected the story line too much. Plus, I could not bear it. It was my first time out in TV, and I didn’t quite understand that setting something outside the calendar year in which you’re shooting isn’t a small detail; no, it makes the thing a period piece. And, in fact, 2016 is a more difficult period to shoot in many ways than, say, New York’s Gilded Age or the 1970s. For those eras, you go to a costume rental shop and you decorate sets with the specialty accoutrement that those houses exist for. For 2016 — so recent, and yet — it’s murkier and therefore harder: harder for a costume designer to find jeans from 2016 for 300 background players than it would be to get corsets and bloomers and bell-bottoms for them (though she did); harder for our production designer and set decorators to find objects from that recently (though they did); hardest for a locations manager most of all to shoot a city that’s been ravaged by a pandemic and altered by some slight sense of progress (though he absolutely, resoundingly did). [Read More]( [Subscribe for over 60% off]( and unlock unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. Plus, get a free tote and exclusive access to The Strategist’s Incredibly Exhaustive Gift Guide. 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