You know, “Hey, you must have been doing this, because look at you now.” I know that’s a terribly bland thing to say, but there are a few characters who have a different relationship when we get a couple episodes past the time jump, and you’re wondering, “Wait, how did those feelings change?” And we go, “Oh, you were in therapy.” You learn little tidbits about what people did, but we tried to do it organically and in the way people would actually talk about things.
But we refer in conversations that people have.
To be perfectly honest, we really have not figured out yet if there are stories that need to be told in flashbacks, or if we’re just going to keep moving forward. TVLINE | Do you plan to incorporate any flashbacks to those three years in between? The changes don’t have to be so enormous that the audience would just be like, “What?!” But nobody’s going to look drastically different, and it’s also a period of time that we can speak to, in passing, in terms of where they were for those three years and what happened. Three years felt like, OK, everybody can look pretty much the same, slightly different hairstyle, different facial hair, perhaps. You also then have way too much history to catch the audience up on. You can’t just jump six or seven years and not change the way people look, because people get older. You know, a lot of it has to do with what people look like, too. TVLINE | To that end, was there any debate about how long to make the time jump? Did other options feel like too big a leap? Let’s put him in a place where she’s still in everybody’s hearts and minds, but that he’s able to be a whole, happy person in pursuit of his life and the raising of his daughter and figuring out what matters. We didn’t want to have Conrad grief-stricken for an entire season of television, you know? We did two episodes of how Conrad has dealt with those early stages of grief, and we decided, let’s put him past it. We felt like having to do that, in real emotional time, would be dark. That kind of grief is not an instantaneous recovery. The character of Conrad - any man who loses the love of his life and the mother of his nine-month-old baby - that’s a long recovery. Walk me through how you settled on this time jump.
TVLINE | When we spoke after Episode 3, you alluded to the challenges of deciding when to move past Nic’s death.
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