Wyle hints at Robby and Dana\u2019s friction being the tip of a future iceberg: \u201cSome of the stuff that was going down between Robby and Dana plays a big part in season three in terms of what makes Robby tick.\u201d The finale also deliciously withholds any sense of closure to the season-long tension between Robby and Langdon, his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 turned problem child.<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved how we paced that [arc] because there were so many lovely nuances to it,\u201d Wyle says, breaking down the beats. First, Robby claims he doesn\u2019t want to have to \u201cdeal with\u201d Langdon\u2019s return; then he tells Langdon he can\u2019t trust him. The truth is more complicated, Wyle says, paraphrasing Robby\u2019s inner monologue: \u201cI don\u2019t know if I can trust you, because you\u2019ve done work on yourself that I\u2019m not willing to do. So you\u2019re kryptonite to me right now\u2014coming back here as a fully actualized, healed, sober human being, and looking at me in the state that I\u2019m in is like holding a mirror up to a junkie.\u201d Having walked the penitent road, Wyle suggests, Langdon is coming back and saying to Robby, \u201cYour turn.\u201d And in the episode\u2019s final scene, Langdon \u201csays the thing that keeps [Robby] from going over the edge, which is, \u2018I went to rehab and all I saw was you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
But back to Robby and the ladies: Wyle realizes Robby\u2019s behavior with Dr. Mohan, played by Supriya Ganesh, is less defensible. \u201cMohan\u2019s a little trickier,\u201d he says, \u201cbecause I don\u2019t know that he\u2019s right in his methodology with her, but ultimately, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s wrong either. She\u2019s needing an exterior catalyst to get her in line, and he\u2019s just trying to be a little tough love-y, but it\u2019s a bit of a dinosaur technique.\u201d<\/p>\n
When I sat down with Wyle, it was two weeks before the announcement that Ganesh won\u2019t be returning for season three, but he explained the mindset behind the show\u2019s ever-shifting cast when we spoke about Tracy Ifeachor not returning as Dr. Collins in season two.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve always designed the show to be a revolving door,\u201d Wyle says. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be characters that don\u2019t come back next year. There\u2019s going to be characters that\u2019ll come back after the end of season three. There\u2019s going to be new characters we\u2019re bringing in next year by design to tell another version of a story that we feel is important. All of this stuff is part of the fabric. The hard part is when you develop these relationships and these bonds with your cast members. We saw Tracy the other night at the SAG Awards when we were up onstage together. And it\u2019s lovely to be able to celebrate the achievement that we all had together.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you never know,\u201d Wyle teases. \u201cIf the show goes many years, characters could come back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ask Wyle to look ahead to the future, and the furthest he goes is about a half-mile across the lot, to some of the most hallowed ground on the premises\u2014the offices of Malpaso, Clint Eastwood\u2019s production company, headquartered here since Eastwood left Universal for Warner Bros. in 1975. Wyle jokes that he\u2019s had his eye on it \u201cfor the last thirty-five years. And I\u2019m not telling him to go. I\u2019m not hurrying him out or anything. I\u2019m just saying, it\u2019s a nice bungalow.\u201d Whenever Eastwood retires, Wyle sees himself as a worthy successor to that space, ideally continuing to produce and star in more envelope-pushing content for the studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wyle hints at Robby and Dana\u2019s friction being the tip of a future iceberg: \u201cSome of the stuff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,1503,146,85,46,5098,6612,3707,411,5101],"class_list":{"0":"post-396477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-onecolumn","14":"tag-textbelowcentergridwidth","15":"tag-the-pitt","16":"tag-tv","17":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}