Warning: The next accommodates spoilers for Sunday’s sequence finale of Animal Kingdom. In the event you’ve but to observe, you might need to achieve this earlier than you learn any additional.
As a lot as Animal Kingdom followers might have hoped that poor, tormented Pope would get to stay fortunately after, c’mon. In our hearts, we knew, didn’t we, that no method was he going to outlive the TNT drama’s intestine punch of a finale (recapped right here). Actually, showrunner Daniele Nathanson, who additionally wrote Sunday’s “FUBAR,” knew. “He’s a killer,” she reminds TVLine, “so there must be an ending [that’s fitting].
“You don’t get away with it. You shouldn’t. And even he is aware of,” she provides, “as a result of he’s the soul of the present, which is type of a perverse idea, contemplating who he was firstly.”
If we squint laborious sufficient, these of us who’ve every now and then sympathized with Smurf’s twisted oldest son can nearly see in his premature demise a cheerful ending of a kind. “That wasn’t essentially what we have been pondering, but it surely is a peaceable place… that freedom from Smurf, freedom from what he did to Julia,” Nathanson observes. “I can’t argue that him being out of the type of psychic torture that we’ve all seen for a couple of seasons [wouldn’t be] a reduction.
“With that mentioned,” she continues, “he didn’t commit suicide, and I need to be very clear about that, as a result of that’s essential. He didn’t. Individuals may ask, ‘What did he die of?’ He was shot at and he dug [a tracker] out of his facet. I feel [he succumbed to a] coronary heart assault/heartache. The poetic feeling was that. And he’d been dropping blood all day!”
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