Was that also due to the production halt?Įpisode 18 end with the death of Yana, which would’ve given a week to. TVLINE | The fallout from Yana’s death felt rushed. I promise you that if we don’t get to film that episode we’ll get the out there one way or another. who shot Lucious and who blew up Cookie’s car, and. In the series finale all of that plays out. Would that have been tied up in the original finale? TVLINE | We never got a resolution to the flash-forward tragedies involving Cookie and Lucious.

In the meantime, fans will have to make due with the following Q&A, in which Mahoney drops hints about the OG finale while also answering our burning Qs about Tuesday’s ersatz closer. And if not? “I think we’ll find some creative way to get out there,” he recently told TVLine, “whether it’s by just releasing the script or finding another way to satisfy fans.”

The EP remains hopeful that the intended farewell will eventually be shot in order to “send the series off” properly. Just as noteworthy was what “Home Is on the Way” was missing, namely a resolution to the season-long flash-forward mystery involving the apparent deaths of Cookie and Lucious, via car bomb and gunshots, respectively.Īccording to Empire showrunner Brett Mahoney, the ill-fated 20th episode (aka the original series finale) was going to wrap up both cliffhangers, as well as bring resolution to a number of other dangling threads.

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