In 2018, Iliza Shlesinger wrote down, “what if high school came back to bite you in the ass?”
Over many, many rewrites, as well as several false starts and stops, that germ of an idea culminated in “Chasing Summer,” a comedy about a 40-something woman who returns to the Texas hometown she fled decades ago only to find herself embracing a summer of parties, menial jobs and carefree romance. That may sound like the premise of an Apatow-ian exercise in arrested development, but Shlesinger wasn’t interested in just landing punchlines.
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