[This story contains spoilers from the fifth season finale of FX’s Snowfall.]
the family was big SnowSeason five, which ended with tonight’s tense season finale, with Demson Idris expecting a baby in Franklin, aunt and uncle finally getting married as they plotted to secure their own financial future.
But it was Lewis (Angela Lewis) who moved to escape Franklin, to make his own deal with Teddy (Carter Hudson), which led to the panicked events of the last episode. After a tense confrontation, during which Franklin holds a gun to his face, they threaten to kill each other. And Franklin gets unexpected help from his mother (Michael Hyatt), who tells him she works with the KGB.
For showman Dave Andron, who wrote the finale and final episode, the final season was just the first part of a two-season finale that aired on FX last year.
“I knew that Season 5 was going to be about a family breaking up and that it was a big thing that it was really going to take some time and money to see the family break up, and I felt like I was in a hurry. . It would start off really inorganic and not the way we wanted to play it,” explains Andron of his approach. everyone. A crisis point that will take us to the final phase.”
snow”The upcoming sixth and final season, announced earlier this month, will be much “heavier” than before, Andron says, in a tone more in tune with the tone of the previous two episodes.
Talking the hollywood reporterAndron talks about the show’s latest game development and Louis’ rise, as well as why he didn’t expect Franklin to steal and how he’d hit rock bottom at the end of the episode before anything potentially useful. And Andron discusses the significance of the two hit songs highlighted in the episode, including why that soundtrack to “In the Air Tonight” might have sounded so different.
When did you know that season six would be the last?
Last spring or winter, when I took the field at FX, just before last season, I was playing [seasons] Five and six. We wanted to keep the last game in mind, so we sat down and had a creative conversation with a few on our side, and we decided that six seasons would be enough and that’s what we needed to finish the story, and FX, as always, was support. So we’ve known each other for a while.
One of the key moments that affects the family, at least until the end, is Louis’ decision to make this deal with Teddy. It was interesting to see how Louis grows up to be that entrepreneur. When did he realize that he and Jerome (Amen Joseph) would be the only ones staying so far away from the family?
I think I’ve known him a long time. One of the most exciting things for me since starting the show was Louise. I knew I was going to let this girl who was from Louisiana Bayu, who came to Los Angeles at a very young age, who used to enjoy and find safety in Jerome and who was such a big fish in a small pond, and see how she boost her self-esteem grow. confidence, even in the early days, he just wanted him to treat Jerome as an equal partner in their relationship and see how they struggled to overcome that obstacle, and as soon as he laid the foundation, he felt it. To me, it felt like a matter of time before I wanted what Franklin wanted. And Franklin, for whatever reason, could never treat him the same. And he’s been through so many traumatic things, especially those who were shot last season, and what that brought to his mind when he decided that if he was going to take his own life, he wanted to make the decisions that would put him in danger. Me, this season, in the first few episodes, when he wants to talk to Teddy about the price, he does all the work and puts himself in danger, and Franklin doesn’t understand what he’s doing and he’s going to win. Don’t even let Teddy talk. For me, it just caused, in my mind, all the factors that made her feel like this unworthy child and she couldn’t do that anymore. It was one of those questions again when we were going to take Louise to where he was going to take Franklin, we really needed to spend time with him and distinguish him, because that’s a big step and if you suddenly look at him, you’re like, ‘O what, is he acting crazy?’ But I think this is the most profitable show. It had ambition at first sight. We’ve been building Louis Arc for a long time and I’m really happy to see him play.
The last episode ends somewhat triumphantly for Franklin, wherever he went, he made all that money. And then it’s pretty early on at the end when he finds out that his money is gone. Later, says Louis, Jerome froze his assets. Why didn’t Franklin do this? It always seems like Franklin is one step ahead and very calculating. Why do you think he felt his money was safe and he was away from home and wireless safe?
I think being as smart as Franklin is an element of daring that sometimes prevents him from covering himself from every possible angle. I don’t think he had any idea that Teddy could get this information, that Teddy knew where these accounts were in Panama and would do anything with Franklin. The other thing that happened was that Franklin had no intention of pushing Teddy away at that moment. It happened all of a sudden and he made an irrational and offhand decision based on Louise’s move, he got upset and probably acted too fast and probably had to take the money and keep it or do it somewhere else. Something really to see six of it. But he felt that he had been defeated and that he had a higher moral foundation, and that with everything he and Teddy had been through and the money he had made, he could have done it. Oops, and Teddy was going to execute him and he miscalculated.
In the end, it all comes back to Sisi and the KGB – this is your chance to tell Franklin and fulfill his mission. How did you find out that this would be the way to do it?
I knew I didn’t want to repeat Alton’s (Kevin Carroll) painting. I didn’t want to put myself in a situation where Sisi would trick Franklin and recruit someone else to help without Franklin’s knowledge. He didn’t want to go to Franklin, where he was abandoned in terrible condition. It was, “Wouldn’t it be nice if information about the KGB really got to Franklin Sissy at a low point, at the point where he really needs it?” As this manifests, you feel, “Oh wow, this could be the answer; It might be useful to them.” But that will only work if Franklin was at a very low point where he needed something, another card to play. So I was glad we were able to build it. It does not lead to the conclusion that everyone expects this.
The finale featured some powerful and surprising musical choices, ranging from “In the Air Tonight” to “Straight Outta Compton”. How did you come to these songs for those times?
I wrote the entire Franklin series with Black Diamonds (Christine Horn) and Dallas (Taylor Polydore) and we knew something was going to be written as an edit, but it was Alonso Alvarez-Barreda, our director. Who at the beginning of that process chased “In the Air Tonight” and oh my God when you see it together you really feel its power and it works really well and perfectly and fired up to make it work. We recorded with him, he worked really well and then Phil Collins [team] He refused to use the song. And we were completely dumbfounded and I sat down and wrote a letter, mostly begging them to look at it. And we got a good rating. უ New York TimesAnd I sent them. I sent them the clip of the episode sequence and mostly begged. And luckily, a few days later they called and said, “Okay, yes, you can use it.” My God, what a relief. We started trying other songs and there was nothing close to it. And after “Straight Outta Compton,” I hadn’t written a song. We knew we were going to use something and Alonso, the director, also put it on and we revised it, we tried a million things. And for the first time on the show, we lied a little bit because “Straight Outta Compton” wasn’t released, the deadline was pushed back a little bit, but we wanted to point the audience out emotionally, we wanted to give them something different. feeling myself. Because I believe that the last season will be a little different in many ways, so if it occurred to us what we wanted to do in the program and we focused on what we live in, which in realities is climbing in a group and gangster rap, so we review this.
You were talking about how season six was different. Is there anything you can laugh about thematically in terms of how it’s going to be different?
I think we’ve always tried to keep a light touch on this show. Clearly, the show is about something very serious and a very dark time in American history. We tried to find something controversial in that because there’s a lot of humor in the world’s situations and it’s part of how people live their daily lives. I think last season the story was supposed to be a tragedy and I think last season it will be a little more difficult. The last two seasons, I think, you can feel the moments where we try to do things with a lighter touch, and then the last two episodes go into a very specific tone. And I think last season will be more represented in that tone.
Clearly, John Singleton was a big part of this show. How do you feel about respecting his vision at the end of the series?
The show’s DNA came out so much in four years that we had to deal with John from the very first conversations to rewriting the pilots and clarifying the first three seasons. I knew and I still know what was important to him in the story we were telling, his backbone, which was the transformation of his neighborhood, what the Black Workers War Zone was like for four years. We always knew he was the backbone of this series. It will be a kind of guiding light when we reach the goal.
This interview has been edited and compressed for clarity.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

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