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11 months agoSaycon Sengbloh Unwinds With Lo-Fi YouTube and Fireplace Vibes
When Saycon Sengbloh tried out for the role of Lillian Williams, the matriarch in ABC's reboot of The Wonder Years, she was also auditioning to be her boss's mother.The showrunner, Saladin K. Patterson, had decided that if he was going to remake the beloved sitcom this time looking at the late 1960s through the lens of a Black family in Alabama he was going to base the show loosely on his own family, starting with his parents, Bill and Lillian.