Rob Mahoney

And now those qualities, that fire, that self-possession,

aren't serving you anymore, and you're crying foul?

Are you fucking kidding me?

Yeah, I think the closing of a couple of different loops within this finale were very effective.

Revisiting some of that cold open stuff, even the way they kind of reintroduce and return to like the first date with all of the context and all that they've been through, I found to be really powerful and effective.

And so there's a lot of like groundwork being laid within their relationship in the season that really pays off.

Yeah, it's more for me about everything else around it.

And then once they're gone, how are we making a show at that point?

leaning leaning towards the screen sort of like wanting to be a part of that conversation and and so i i didn't find it cheap at all i thought it was really well done the way they went back to it inside of this episode so and even return to like some of the very specific conversation they were having not just like you know the bit about the laminated menu but the signs over their respective heads and kind of like what what they are putting out in the world and what they're withholding from the world which

is such a core part of both of these characters and the way they've been presented this season, right?

Who is interested in projecting what to whom is one of the central concerns of the show.

Well, it's based on a true story where everyone knows what's going to happen.

Like,

To bring people inside baseball a little bit, you might do this with Game of Thrones, right?

You might do this with a big surprise ending of some kind.

No.

I think part of the reason why it sits okay with me.

I'm not thrilled, frankly, about anything in terms of that scene and what's going on in the cockpit.

And I think some of that is by design.

Because we've been talking about this show, Joe, and the way it's drawn and the way it's written and the way it's structured.