![]() ![]() The main couples seem to all be still together, the kids are all grown up, some of them are having kids themselves. And so the audience can be okay.ĭEADLINE: That gathering in the end, it flashed very quickly but gave us a glimpse at what is to come. And so we wanted to make sure that we show that they’re okay. I’ve watched with Maggie being sick first season, with Rome dealing with his depression, with them losing babies, people have responded like these are really their friends who have had this happen to them. It’s why on the hockey billboard, Gary Was Here, it says “fantasy becomes reality.” Our show is so built on authenticity that people believe these characters are real. And if you look at the voiceover in Act 6, some of it is directly to the fans, like at one point Gary says “this may not be the way you want the story to end.” I said to our consultant who we talked to about everything, I said some people are going to be really angry and she said, they will because that’s one of the stages of grief. I think Act 6 is really for Javi but also for the fans. NASH: We really wanted to have an Act 6 that went past it. But I think we always stayed the course with it. NASH: We just talked about, how else could it end, everyone goes off to the sunset? I think for us it was like, what’s the most authentic way to tell this, which is sadness sometimes happens but when you’re surrounded by the right group of friends, you can get through anything.ĬOLI: We talked through different ways of executing whether we would jump past and then fill it in as a flashback - that was on the table at one point if we felt like we couldn’t necessarily tell it exactly how we wanted to tell it with the episodes that we had. ![]() NASH: I remember there was this big swing pitch for this other thing, and everyone’s like, nooo…ĭEADLINE: What are some of those different endings that you considered and eventually dismissed? I think it’s something that he wanted to do, needed to do.ĬOLI: Every writer who heard DJ pitch that out, understood the impact that that would have and why that was the exact right way to end the series but to be charitable to him and to the room, we road tested other options all along the way, we were open about whether we could beat it as DJ said, and in fact, I think DJ was the biggest champion of going like Hey, guys, please, if you think there’s something else we should consider, let’s talk it through. And I think this was an important story point for him. I’ve been around for a minute, I’ve worked with a lot of showrunners, and I’ve got to say, he really did treat this show like one of his children. I don’t know that there’s ever been a showrunner who is as invested or cared as much about something that they created as DJ in this. ![]() RODAY RODRIGUEZ: I didn’t, it’s not my show. And I do think it’s important to show that that is how it goes for a lot of people who suffer from this disease, especially since we already had a character that beat it.Ī Million Little Things – “Pilot” (ABC/Jack Rowand) ABCĭEADLINE: Did you think at any point that maybe Gary shouldn’t die did you try to dissuade DJ? And then DJ would check in with me periodically over the course of the series just to make sure that that still felt like the direction that we wanted to go in and for my part, I was always like, as long as it feels like we’ve earned it and not like we’re just dropping the most horrible thing that we possibly can on people, I’m totally down because that’s life, and that’s the experience that we try to reflect on the show, for better or worse. RODAY RODRIGUEZ: I knew towards the end of Season 1 and was sworn to secrecy. And then hearing it - it pretty much came to fruition in the finale exactly how you laid it out in terms of Rome and Eddie deciding and being willing to do this thing for Gary but then Maggie stepping in to do it and help him herself - I think I knew in that moment that that felt like the exact right end for all the reasons you just said.ĭEADLINE: James, when did you find out about Gary’s fate? A Million Little Things – “One big thing” – (ABC/Darko Sikman) ABC/Darko SikmanĬOLI: You pitched it again in Season 3 first day, pulled me into our own private Zoom and said, okay, here’s what I’m thinking for the end of it. ![]()
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