WEISBERG | Well, I think it was the opposite, in our minds, as a way to make it more grim. And then we cut back when Alan is already dead. You cut away to this dream sequence where Alan is back with his family, and it seems like a happy ending. TVLINE | We don’t actually see the struggle that led to Alan’s death, though. And then just kind of doing our due diligence, we definitely explored different ways to have him get out of there alive. It was going to be grim, but there are a lot of different ways to get to grim. First of all, we thought of a lot of different ways to have him die, as you say, grimly. TVLINE | Did you consider any other endings? We have a dear friend, Josh Brand, who we worked with for many years on The Americans, and he used to say, “When your story is working well, your ending is inevitable.” And I think that really was true here. It’s a grim ending, to be sure, but could this story have ended any other way, really? Or was this sort of tragically inevitable?įIELDS | Well, I think if we told it right, then it was inevitable. TVLINE | Sam ends up strangling Alan to death. Read on to get their take on the downbeat ending - and, though The Patient was billed as a limited series, whether they’re having any thoughts about a possible Season 2. The finale gave us a lot to unpack, so we turned to series creators Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg (who crafted a similarly tense drama with FX’s The Americans) to help us process our feelings. TV Subtitles Are Used Most Often by Adults Age 18-29 - What Are Your ‘Must-Read’ Shows?
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