The Fox procedural drama starring Tom Payne and Michael Sheen was canceled after two seasons.
Warning: This article contains spoilers about the May 18 series finale ofProdigal Son.
TheProdigal Sonand his creepy serial killer father have left the building in more ways than one.
Tom Payne in ‘Prodigal Son’.Phil Caruso/FOX
), and, (my) boy, did they go out with a bang.
Seriously, stop reading here if you haven’t watched yet or we’ll send Dr. Whitly after you.
Martin being Martin, a.k.a.
infamous serial killer The Surgeon who has taken 23 (known) lives, didn’t love that.
So will Martin survive?
Will Malcolm go to prison?
Well, we’ll never know.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:First off, ugh, I’m so sad the show has been canceled.
Is there any chance it might get picked up elsewhere?
SAM SKLAVER:As the famousMonty Pythonsketch goes, “We’re not dead yet!”
There can’t be that many idiots out there.
Someone’s gotta pick up this show.
We were able to tell a really great 33-episode story.
How did the idea for a prison break come about?
COVID was going to have an effect on what we could do and what our assets would be.
How excited were you guys to have her come on board and in such an out-there role?
SKLAVER:It was amazing.
It was outrageous and amazing.
She was like, “Oooh, that sounds fun.”
We were like, what about doingMisery?
And she was like, ‘Oh, I’d like to doMisery.’
You also addressed racism in the police force this season through J.T.
’s (Frank Harts) experience with other cops at the precinct.
Was that one of the first conversations when you got back in the writers' room for season 2?
We were able to avoid COVID on our show because there weren’t really stories to tell.
and Dani (Aurora Perrineau).
So another shame of the show not coming back is our inability to come back to that story.
Did you ever consider getting them together sooner or did you want to build that friendship first?
SKLAVER:There was never a thought of getting them together sooner.
The Dani and Bright friendship is a connection.
The sexiest of prefs!
Okay, let’s talk about the finale a little more in-depth.
Tell me everything about the fight scene between Vivian and Jessica (Bellamy Young).
We couldn’t go that way, so it was like, what is theProdigal Sonversion of that?
From the get-go, it was going to be delicious.
Then Catherine and Bellamy dug in.
It wasn’t like, are we doing this?
It was, this is going to be so much fun.
We were working out each individual detail like we were working on aMatrixmovie,and it was a blast.
Everyone was totally game on board for making something really insane and scary and fun.
And it also has a Grace Jones joke.
So at what point did Malcolm realize his dad was never really going to change?
Or did he just know that deep down the whole time?
We can hold two different thoughts at the same time.
I have a thought, in regards to what Malcolm is thinking in that moment.
He says it to his father at the end, “You’re not for this world.
you’re free to’t be out here.”
The son in him wants his dad reformed.
That is why the show is so beautiful.
So the cliffhanger ending… Can you say whether Martin would’ve survived that stabbing?
Would Malcolm have been heading to prison himself?
Where was it going to go from there?
FEDAK:I want to be vague just because you never know… And when we pitched it to Fox, they loved it.
Unfortunately, there were other extenuating circumstances that we ran into, but it was huge…
So take that as an answer to something…
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