TV Writers Answer: How Would You Script the 2024 Election?

Writers from "Sex and the City," "Parks and Recreation," "Boston Legal," "Supergirl," "Friends," and "10 Things I Hate About You" pitch us their dream Harris v. Trump twists.

No doubt it has been a wild 2024 election season, with surprises worthy of the most binge-able political shows and films. Vice president Kamala Harris has stolen the main character energy that former president and reality TV star Donald Trump has so expertly wielded in election cycles past, embracing memes like a seasoned pop star. The guy whose life inspired the major Hollywood film Hillbilly Elegy turned out to have negative star power. And a high school coach straight out of Friday Night Lights became Harris’s running mate, and a social media darling.

With less than a month to go before the election, we asked some of our favorite TV writers to imagine the plot twists that could be yet to come. Here are their hilarious, insightful, and daring pitches.

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