Andrew Lenchewski: It was really less about having specific plot points or events planned out in advance. It was more about really giving the show the thematic closure that we thought it needed and deserved. For us, the show was always about two things: family and second chances. So, what we really wanted to accomplish by the end of the finale was taking each member of this unlikely family that had formed, and making sure that each one of them had fulfilled his or her respective second chance in life.
And with no one was that as important as it was with Hank. He has, at best, a strained relationship with his brother. He has no relationship with his dad. And by the end, we see a guy who's truly found himself and reclaimed his life in every way. So, that felt satisfying to us. Royal Pains : How did it all end? Were there any alternate endings that you considered and rejected? Lenchewski: There was an alternate ending, and it was really a debate between two different endings in the writers room about, where should Hank end up?
There was a camp that was for Hank ending up in the Hamptons, and there was a camp that was for Hank ending up elsewhere. And there were really strong points of view and arguments for each one. But ultimately, we thought that the audience would want to know that, long after they walked away from the show, they could imagine that Hank and his family were still hanging out in the Shadow Pond guest house, enjoying bagels and cupcakes, and that Hank was still taking care of the haves and the have-nots in the Hamptons that always needed him, and would continue to.
Because the show for us has always been so much about family, we really love the idea of, in that flash-forward, ending up back in Shadow Pond, seeing the family together, and feeling like, even if only for a summer, they would be able to all be as one again. Mark, how much input, if any, did you have in the ending? Mark Feuerstein: Not so much. And not because I wasn't invited to participate in the conversation, but more because I so trusted Michael and Andrew and our amazing writers room to guide Hank home in the end, that I wasn't going to lobby heavily.
And there was already a very healthy discussion about it in the first place. Were you happy with the ending? Mark Feuerstein: I could have seen it go either way. I could have seen Hank going on a Jill Casey-like Doctors Without Borders mission for the rest of his life, having somehow a wife and children on the road and doing his thing internationally.
But I kind of love the way he got his cupcake and was able to eat it too, by going to Africa and us seeing him willing to take action to get the love of his life -- which, by the way, I think is so poetic and fitting.
Because I did believe that, despite Boris and the mansion and this new possibility as a concierge doctor It was Jill Casey and meeting her at that party that was the clincher. So it was just so fitting that it was Jill all along, and that he goes to Africa to get her, but he brings her back to the place where he found his second chance, where he got his second life and where he invested his heart and soul into all these special relationships, most of all with his brother.
Talk about the realization Hank comes to in the final two episodes, about feeling fulfilled in his life. Want to know how everyone fared? Well, essentially they all got pretty much what they wanted. Happy endings for everyone! Would you expect anything less? Watch: Scott Introduces Kourtney K. On Wednesday's series finale, Hank Mark Feuerstein ended up with the best of both worlds.
He decided to leave the Hamptons and traveled all the way to Africa to get back together with Jill Jill Flint. But, in a three-year flash-forward that closed out the episode, Hank ended up back where it all began: in the Hamptons, eating bagels and cupcakes in the backyard of Shadow Pond, a. But this time, he's only there for the summer months -- or is he? Hank: Hank briefly considers leaving the Hamptons with Boris, and also ponders an offer from Evan to run the ER at the hospital.
But he eventually decides to forge his own path, and does that by going to Africa to tell Jill he's ready to make a full commitment to her and their relationship. Three years later, they're engaged and summering in the Hamptons, with Hank manning the grill.
Cheers to Divya indeed! He can remember a time when he and Hank were on their own — their mother had passed away and their father was as unpredictable as the weather — and he knows how much siblings mean to each other in times like this. And here we thought the car Hank re-gifted him from Ms.
Newberg circa season 1 was a swanky bestowal. From sneaking into a party there under false pretenses to having his own name on the mailbox — some guys have all the luck. He might have been unhirable at the beginning of the series, but boy, is Hank in high demand now.
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