Joshua Jackson had a child when this happened, on top of everything else, so it sort of made it a non-issue for Joshua Jackson coming up. Also, I originally, years ago, discussed with Joshua Jackson being a big part of this show as Charlie, and I want to leave that on the table, i think there's a whole season of storylines with Joshua Jackson, if we're able to make that happen schedule-wise.

Steve Brill

The trickiest part was having to do this during a pandemic, shooting in Canada and having to get everybody up to Canada for one episode, which would take two weeks to shoot. And they'd have to quarantine for two weeks, also, so everyone had to had to pretty much gave up a month of their life, if not more, to come up and do it.

Emilio Estevez was Coach Bombay to them, and they were very close, all the actors, so it was very emotional to see them together. And it was Emilio [ who ] said,' Why don't we just wait until it's on the ice ?' because they had to practice skating, and we weren't able to have dinners or anything because of Covid. I'm sure it would have been different, but because of Covid, the one time everyone was going to be together for the first time was everyone getting back on the ice skating together, including Emilio.

It'd be fun if I could get him next season and put him on skates, i know he's a California boy, so he probably doesn't skate, but that would be awesome.