[VIDEO] 'Saved by the Bell': Jessie and Slater Relationship in Revival - TVLine

Midway through Season 2 of Peacock’s Saved by the Bell revival, Kelly suggests it’s kismet that a newly divorced Jessie and still-single Slater just so happen to work together at Bayside nearly 30 years after their high school romance fizzled out.

Jessie insists that she no longer thinks about Slater’s butt — err, about Slater that way, but as fate would have it, Season 2 culminates in a passionate kiss between the excitable guidance counselor and dimwitted gym teacher, setting up a potential romance in Season 3.

For portrayers Elizabeth Berkley Lauren and Mario Lopez, revisiting Jessie and Slater’s relationship as adults feels different.

“Mario and I, we always had just a close, like, best-friend dynamic — like, buddy-buddy, have each other’s backs always, and that’s always been the case all these years.”.

In order to make Jessie and Slater’s present-day relationship believable to the audience, Slater had to grow up a bit.

And in Season 2, he begins attending therapy to work through some of his childhood trauma.

As for whether present-day Slater and Jessie can make a relationship work, Lopez isn’t so sure

“I don’t want to look like a home-wrecker, or like a bounce-back relationship, right