Yes, we’re all happy for Tarlos none more than the actors playing T.K.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What was your goal going into Monday’s finale?
TIM MINEAR:I was very interested in revisiting 9/11.
Rob Lowe and Julian Works on ‘9-1-1: Lone Star’.Jordin Althaus/FOX
That allowed us to sort of have our cake and eat it too.
I wanted to bring back the idea of his cancer without actually giving him cancer again.
I didn’t want it to all feel like BS.
Rafael Silva and Ronen Rubinstein in the ‘9-1-1: Lone Star’ season 3 finale.Jordin Althaus/FOX
So he’s not forgetting it.
He’s just not making it into a fetish, because you better move forward.
you could’t just live in the past.
Though I guess you’re free to, with Lisa Edelstein’s Gywn making an appearance.
I know you said you were excited to figure out ways to get Gywn back posthumously.
Oh God, Lisa is just so great.
She’s obviously T.K.
When you see that relationship…
This feels like a soap opera."
But to me it never did.
It always felt real to me.
And Judd’s journey is that Judd is Judd, right?
But he never tries to hide it from Grace.
He says, “We’re going to talk about it now.
I don’t hide things from my wife.”
I wasn’t interested in something that felt like fake soap drama with the introduction of Wyatt.
The thing you should read into it is that Amy was in Canada doing another show.
But you know what?
For me it actually worked out… Catherine and Owen, I think, is a successful pairing.
Amy and Rob have fantastic chemistry.
They really love each other, they love working with each other.
Let’s talk about the Tarlos engagement.
Was that always in the cards?
At the beginning of the season if you had asked me if T.K.
And I just wanted something joyous.
I wanted a happy ending for everybody.
would kind of go through the wringer this year.
And Owen reiterates that here.
I have this sort of funny thing at the beginning of the episode whereT.K.
doesn’t have a will because he’s weirdly superstitious about it.
You have to live, you have to grab the moment while you could.
What can we expect from next season?
So the sky’s the limit, right?
I’m very interested in finding a way to just drill down into everybody’s stories more.
But that’s really not the show, right?
But these cases take up sometimes a third or half of your 44 minutes of screen time.
It’s a lot of plate-spinning, let me tell you.
