WARNING: This article contains spoilers about the season 1 finale ofNaomi.
Well, that took a turn!
“It really escalates quickly,” Walfall tells EW.
Kaci Walfall in ‘Naomi.'.The CW
They thought it was unrealistic how Naomi is perfect and everything in her life seems perfect.
The people that she thought she could trust the most are now basically her enemies."
“I wanted it to be something that wasn’t triumphant,” Walfall says.
So we were very, very careful to make that scene in the show not look joyous.
It’s just the only action she has, so she has to resort to it.
Her parents could be dangerous.
She’s not gonna superspeed away from them.
Her flying and them not knowing where she’s going at all, that’s true power to have.
The revelation about Naomi’s parents is one of those twists that reverberates back through the whole preceding season.
Now we can see her parents’ aims in planting that mistrust.
I remember Ms. Ava said that," Walfall says, referring to executive producerAva DuVernay.
They made him out to be this horrible criminal, which shows that they are the enemy."
So where does Naomi go from here?
Walfall, for one, is interested to see Naomi stand on her own two feet.
“I want to see her find her independence,” Walfall says.
