Quinta Brunson Says Making 22 Episodes a Year of ‘Abbott Elementary’ Made Her Feel ‘Invincible’ as She Expands Into More TV and Film

By Michael Schneider

Michael Schneider

Variety Editor at Large

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As Quinta Brunson builds her own TV production company, she knows what she doesn’t want to make: “Slop.”

In this age of AI, “slop” has become a term to describe the kind of mindless fare that has started to clog social media and other platforms — projects created without much soul or originality at the touch of a keyboard. Speaking to a packed house last week at the Variety TV Fest, Brunson said that she fears “there’s a lot of slop out there right now. And I don’t want to contribute to that.”

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