The Family: Season 0

The Family: Season 0 (Often abbreviated to TF or TFS0) is a web series created by Spindash Studios. The series was created in August 2019, but made its debut on September 7, 2020, an entire year later. The final episode was uploaded on November 25, 2022, as a premiere.

## Cast and Characters

### Main Characters

* Spindash Studios as Gavin Darylson, Max Darylson, Griffin Cosmo
* Kris\_R\_Gaming as Kris Darylson
* yesterdays\_art as Aly Darylson

### Recurring Characters

* PW64 as Nick Wright
* HOTMINUTE Studios as Lucas Layum
* regular\_helicopter4200 as Hayden Pitcher
* KBoi17 as Luke Cosmo
* Friend from School as Jayson Learner
* Friend from School as Hailey
* Ivy as Trystan Mac

## Synopsis

Gavin Darylson and his younger brother, Kris, try to live their best life during the summer. But their older brother, Max, tries to stop them from doing so since he hates Gavin.

## Production

### **Conception**

The Family was created on August 14, 2019. Originally, the main cast was going to include Gavin, Max, their parents, and a love interest. The series was originally going to be made on Gacha Life, but Spindash, who was 11 years old at the time, realized that was cringe and decided to move on from Gacha as a whole. He decided to make the entire series animated. The series was going to focus mostly on Gavin and Max's rivalry, along with Gavin's relationship with his love interest, who Max also liked, creating a love triangle. Ultimately, most of his friends at the time wanted to be in the series, so he created new roles and characters for them. One of his friends ended up taking the role of the love interest. His cousins, Kris\_R\_Gaming and yesterdays\_art, said they wanted a role in the series as well, thus creation Kris and Aly.

### **Development**

In November 2019, Spindash made a script for a pilot episode in which it was going to be the first day of school for all the characters. Originally, Gavin was supposed to be an artist, and Max was going to be public about his attitude. In December 2019, Spindash created his YouTube channel and uploaded his first video, which was an announcement that Episode 1 would be uploaded in January or February 2020. However, problems arose when Spindash started getting lazy and didn't work on the series. In March 2020, he dropped the original script and winged it with his own idea of a summer episode. He animated for a while until April. He got back into animating on May, and stopped in July. He got back into animating in late August. He finally finished in September, and uploaded it on September 7, 2020. He soon started animating Episode 2, and took a break until December 2020. He was halfway through by the end of 2020.

In February 2021, it was announced The Family Episode 2 would be continued. It was soon released later that month. Later that week, he started Episode 3. But then, the data loss struck. Whenever Spindash had to put up his iPad, all the data would be lost. This caused the episode to be rushed. Spindash uploaded a video in May 2021 saying that Episode 3 will be shorter than Episode 1 and 2. Even though it was rushed, it didn't do so bad, and Spindash's cousin complimented him on the fact that it was still good even after being rushed. Hours after the release of Episode 3, Spindash began work on Episode 4, and it was said that it would release on July 4, as it was a 4th of July special. 10 days later, it was announced 50 seconds of the animation was done. On July 3, part of the script was revealed, revealing that Hailey's voice would finally be revealed in this episode, as well as a new design for Gavin and Kris' bedroom and original concept art for a water balloon fight from November 2019.

Soon on July 25, Episode 4 was delayed to August. Around 2 weeks later, it was revealed that Episode 1 will get a remaster, Episode 4 will release soon, and Season 2 is cancelled. Finally, on the first anniversary of the series, Episode 4 was finally released. Soon after, the script for Episode 5 began production. On September 29, the script was finished, and animation began on October 2nd. On March 25, 2022, the release date for Episode 5 was announced, being June 26, 2022. Since then, little progress was made due to Spindash's busy schedule, including school and the Five Nights at Wolfie's Remaster. Unfortunately, The Family Episode 5 was delayed to an unknown date. During this time though, Spindash had cast a new voice for Hailey, and some animation had been done as well. However, Spindash soon did a face reveal and announced that the episode will not be animated, but instead an audio drama. The episode was released on November 25, 2022. It was received well among audiences.

### **Post-finale**

Spindash Studios claimed on December 12, 2022, that The Family is dubbed The Family: Season 0 and that a reboot is in development. On February 19, 2023, a compilation of all the episodes of Season 0 was uploaded to YouTube.

## Reception

The Family was well received among audiences, which mostly consisted of Spindash's friends and family.

## Trivia

* Originally, the love interest's name was going to be Sally. This was based on likely Sonic the Hedgehog's love interest from the Saturday morning cartoon from 1993, which was named Sally Acorn. This was before Hailey was created, who was supposed to be Gavin's love interest, but after which the love interest role was deleted and Hailey simply became one of Gavin's friends.
* The reason Hailey doesn't have a speaking role in the series is because of a falling out between the original voice actor and Spindash Studios, in which he did not hear from her for months. A solution was conceived when Spindash got one of his other friends to voice Hailey for Episode 5.
* Spindash somewhat regrets starting The Family since it got him in a mindset of always needing to improve upon something, although he still continues with The Family since, as he puts it, "is an alternate world where all my friends got along and I went on crazy adventures like I've always wanted to."
* The parents were supposed to have a bigger role in the series, but haven't appeared since Episode 1.
* There is a huge list of cancelled episode ideas. A brief list of them are as follows:
	+ Gavin being stalked by a girl that likes him
	+ A Boys vs. Girls water balloon fight
	+ An extremely mean babysitter

* No original poster was ever released for the series.