The Resident delivered a cliffhanger of essentially the most literal selection in its Dec. 6 fall finale, as new mother Padma contemplated taking her personal life whereas within the throes of postpartum despair.
Naturally, collection co-creator Amy Holden Jones can’t say precisely what is going to occur when the Fox drama returns on Jan. 3 (8/7c). However after the present left Padma poised to probably bounce off a bridge, Jones gives perception as to why Padma’s suicide try felt like an comprehensible selection for the character.
“What fascinates me is the concept of somebody who will get right into a being pregnant with out actually understanding it, who has by no means had these sorts of obligations, after which, lo and behold, has twins with no associate and will get overwhelmed. That’s a growing-up occasion, you realize?” the EP shares with TVLine. “And the truth that it’s inflicting an emotional break is one thing very plausible to me. She doesn’t have the talent set to cope with these sorts of overwhelming issues.”
Much more jarring for Padma, Jones says, was the expectation that she could be a “flower-child, pretty, easygoing mother” upon giving start, contemplating her work as a yoga teacher and beforehand carefree way of living. However “it didn’t work out the way in which she thought it will, and that’s one other attention-grabbing journey,” she continues. “There is no journey if folks don’t have inside in addition to exterior obstacles to face, so now there’s this impediment.”
And there are constructive indications that Padma will survive her present ordeal when Season 6 resumes, if solely as a result of Jones teases Padma’s down-the-road relationship with Raptor — and it’d shock you to know {that a} romantic future is probably going off the desk for the pair.
“We debated early on if she might find yourself with Raptor, and we determined no, that was not the place we wished to go,” Jones divulges. “We are able to now have a really difficult, attention-grabbing scenario the place individuals are co-parenting who’re not actually lovers. What does that appear like? How do folks cope? It’s a great query, and an attention-grabbing space for drama.”
In fact, per Jones, “it’s potential” {that a} romance between Padma and Raptor might ultimately really feel proper. However “as we constructed their scenes, it appeared like such a beautiful world to create an expensive friendship, a very shut friendship that we wished to see. So we went that approach as an alternative,” she says, including that it’s been a problem to search out Raptor an acceptable romantic associate since Shaunette Renée Wilson’s Mina left the present in Season 4.
“Sadly, Mina’s fairly troublesome to exchange, each for him emotionally and for me emotionally,” Jones admits with fun. “I had completely no want to see her go. That was actually painful. However there can be a solution, for positive. It’s additionally potential the love of [Raptor’s] life can be his sons.”
In case you’re fascinated about suicide, are anxious a few good friend or liked one, or would love emotional help, dial “988” for the Nationwide Suicide & Disaster Lifeline.
