This is the one I had the control over, and what’s most exciting about writing this show is I can take stories that I have such personal emotional investment in, and write the endings I wish had happened. I’ve lost three people who are really close to me to cancer, and if I could change the ending of those stories, I would in a second. But in terms of Maggie’s story and the arc, we knew from the beginning that. I told the network that we have Maggie, Gary and Linda who have cancer - one of them has to die.
You can say you don’t want someone to die from cancer, but we don’t always have that choice, and it’s why we had Linda die this year. As a showrunner trying to make 22 episodes next season … you don’t pull a player from a game when you need to get points on the board! But it was amazing to me from talking to people during the season how many really thought she was going to die. It was the day we lost our innocence, and I think there’s something also thematic about that within our show, which is the season started with the day the group lost their innocence, and to evoke that at the end of the season was really powerful for us and hopefully for the viewer.Ībsolutely not. We didn’t want to hit the 9/11 topic too hard - you don’t see the footage or don’t hear the audio we just see Jon’s reaction. There was a lot of discussion about how do we do this and be sensitive to the community. As a guy from Boston who lived in New York, I don’t walk through airport security at Logan without being reminded of it it’s just ever-present. Same thing with the card at the end of the episode. At first they said no because you can’t give away things for free, and I get that, but then I went back to them and said, “Given where we’re going at the end of the season, I really think we should do this.” They changed their mind.
to raise money, I asked ABC to let us make it a real charity, and make it a race for Give An Hour. When the characters did their race in episode 11, and we did our real race in L.A. She wanted to be there for first responders. Give An Hour, Barbara’s charity, came out of 9/11.
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