New York, New York, it’s a helluva dramatic town.
What does this latest contretemps mean for Randall and Kevin?
Is Rebecca jeopardizing her own care?
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And where is Seth Meyers when you need him?
Kevin and Randallhave a dubious history on the streets of New York.
One can never quite shake the issues and baggage from one’s past, as this series has shown.
How far down the rabbit hole has Randall been going?
APTAKER:That’s exactly right.
So he has a whole different kind of pain and resentment when it comes to that night.
What if I had just demanded he get down from that roof?"
So it’s a different kind of excruciating torture that Randall puts himself through.
So, yeah, we are excited to explore that in the immediate future.
That last scene is another key alternate-universe what-if moment with Jack.
Does Randall have the necessary bandwidth right now to handle this quickly widening fracture with Kevin?
But he is still under a tremendous amount of stress.
How much more cracking will we see?
How much worse is it going to get?
APTAKER:[Laughs] Oh, it’s going to get worse.
It is quite upsetting.
BERGER:Randall definitely feels that way.
In the writers' room, whom did the majority of the writers side with?
Did you talk a lot about whose approach was more harmful?
When people really are feeling passionately about a loved one, they can make surprising, sometimes controversial decisions.
APTAKER:We knew we were in the right zone because this plays out over our remaining two episodes.
How could Randall do this?"
And we know when our own production team is split, we’re in good shape.
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A set divided!
Randall is excited about the possibility of this Alzheimer’s clinical trial at Washington University, which Rebecca nixes.
There will surely be more discussions about courses of treatment.
APTAKER:Yeah, that’s something that we’ve definitely talked about.
But that’s a bit more down the line once she progresses.
BERGER:It’s really complicated.
Which makes it extra-maddening for everyone.
This episode saw Rebecca sublimating her desires for her family’s in two past timelines.
And in the present day, she bailed on the premiere to fit it in her Met dream.
How charged will that next session be?
APTAKER:Oh, it’s really intense.
APTAKER:And Pam is actually on camera in the episode this week.
It’s not just her voice and the back of her head.
