Reba Mcentire Why Rex Linn makes Happy Places romance possible

A happy place – and Rex Linn – Finally given Reba Mcentire Has a chance to do sitcom after multiple failed attempts with her OG Reba series.
In the season finale on Friday, March 21, Isabella (Belissa Escobedo) tried to build her half-sister Bobbie (Mcentire) with their colleague Emmett (Linn). The only problem is that both Bobbie and Emmett are worried about sabotaging their decades-long friends, so they take a break. A happy place Finally, it’s implied that Bobbie and Emmett Kevin Abbott The first thought.
“I actually had a different place in the first season. It involved that relationship.” He specifically laughed at US Weekly. “But I can’t be because we like to track them and then build them so that when we get there it’s a surprising thing. It seems obvious because we have 13 episodes and we don’t tell us if we want to take more.”
A happy place Finally received four more episodes orders, but the writer’s room decided not to rush romance, Abbott added: “I don’t have time to build the place I want to build. But I want to start this relationship because one thing I never did on the old Reba Show was the relationship.”
Before working with 69-year-old Mccentire A happy placethe two cooperate Rebaoperated from 2001 to 2007. Abbott used what it did, but never did it Reba New episodes with McEntire on NBC’s new episodes related to the bistro colleagues.

Reba McEntire and Christopher Rich in sitcom “Reba”.
Danny Feld /©Fox TV/Pretty Everett Collection“Reba can do almost anything for whatever reason. One story we couldn’t tell on the original show was relationships. There was a love interest, but the chemistry never worked.” “From my point of view, we tried several different periods and these episodes were horrible. They were always very tough plots for me because they didn’t work well.”
A happy place There is no problem because Mcentire is paired with her current real-life boyfriend Linn.
“She is with Rex now and we thought, ‘If it’s going to work, that’s going to work.’ For me, they’re great together. “So I’m interested in following this track and seeing how it goes. That’s our plan before playing Rex – believe it or not. Because we did throw him away, it was always intended to be a possible love interest because I had some stories I wanted to tell. I can’t tell them in the old Reba Sitcom. ”
McEntire and Linn originally met while filming in 1991 Gambler returns: Luck of the lotterybut they didn’t pursue romance until nearly thirty years later. After reconnecting, McEntire and Linn are both fun in the same project, including Big sky Now A happy place.

Rex Linn plays Emmett and Reba Mcentire plays Bobbie.
Casey Durkin/NBCThe NBC series premiered in 2024, with McEntire as the tavern owner, who inherited her father’s business and found a new professional partner in her half-sister whom she didn’t know she was. Meanwhile, Linn plays a chef named Emmett who is obsessed with Bobbie, which will be explored in the already ordered season 2.
A happy place is also a star Melissa Petermanwhich one Reba Fans remember the original sitcom. But just because A happy place Reunited Costars won’t make it a copy and paste version Reba series.
“I made the original Reba Show with Reba, she is everything you want to be a person, let alone as a performer. We don’t fully tell all the stories we want to tell in the original Reba. That was the weird ending of that show. We were actually thinking about restarting the original show,” he recalled the pilot who wasn’t picked up in the end. “I think we did a great job [doing something different with Happy’s Place]. ”
He continued: “We don’t want to do a family show with the kids because we do a lot of things. So we just want to do a workplace show for adults. We’re very happy with that. I’m so happy to be with these people.”
A happy place Season 2. Season 1 is now airing on Peacock.