Good Trouble last March as shelter-in-place orders went into effect. The season was put on ice along with virtually every other production in Hollywood.
Still, over Zoom, the writers continued to break story about the diverse characters of the Coterie, a communal living space in downtown Los Angeles.
Shortly after Hollywood shuttered, Joanna Johnson (who created Good Trouble and The Fosters with Peter Paige and Bradley Bredeweg) became one of the first creators to truly innovate in terms of safety protocols and got back into production with a limited series shot in lockdown, Love in the Time of Corona.“I think we shot two or three days of the first episode [of Good Trouble] when we had to shut down.