Long Story Short tracks three Schwooper siblings — Avi, Shira, and Yoshi — across a nonlinear timeline spanning 1996 to 2022. The series opens with a childhood moment leaving a grandmother's funeral and closes with the siblings revisiting that day decades later, framing the season. Episodes jump between events such as bar mitzvahs, interventions, dance recitals, and the COVID-19 pandemic to portray both intimate and major life experiences. Raphael Bob-Waksberg, known for BoJack Horseman and the time-bending Undone, structures the season to return to its starting point, creating an emotional throughline without a strictly linear narrative.
"Long Story Short" opens with the Schwooper siblings - neurotic eldest son Avi (Ben Feldman), sarcastic middle child Shira (Abbi Jacobson), and free-spirited youngest Yoshi (Max Greenfield) - in the backseat of their parents' car, driving away from their grandmother's funeral. In the final episode of the first season, a good 20+ years and another funeral later, the three come back together as adults with their loved ones to share their memories from that day.
"When we were writing Episode 1, we knew that we were going to come back to this in Episode 10," Raphael Bob-Waksberg said in an interview with IndieWire. "I think a lot of the breaking of the season for me was just coming up with a lot of different kind of stories I wanted to tell, and then figuring out what's the proper order for these, how am I going to bounce around and bounce through them? I liked the idea of feeling like we've gone on an emotional journey with these characters by the end of it, and coming back around to where we started. In a show like this, where you can go in any direction, and there isn't like a linear narrative to it necessarily, I felt like that would make it feel whole and make the season feel complete."
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