Now and Again

For "Now and Again" fans, the final episode left us with a doosy of a cliffhanger. Following a family dinner on Thanksgiving, Michael (Eric Close) decided to make an escape with his wife and daughter, with Dr. Morris and the government hot on their trail. I was able to find this article on Cinescape.com from Glenn Gordon Caron, creator of the show:

From www.cinescape.com:


THE FEELING YOU WERE LEFT WITH IN THE CLIFFHANGER WAS THAT THE SHOW’S FOCUS WAS GOING TO CHANGE TO A MAN ON THE RUN TYPE SHOW, ALA THE FUGITIVE.


We had the whole thing figured out. It would have been another two, possibly three, episode arc at the beginning of the season, but we would have gotten back to the status quo. Lisa and Heather would have been okay; would not have known that Michael was, in fact, the man they once knew. They would have known something different that would have answered a lot of questions for them, but which in fact would not have been true. The Eggman would not have been done away with, and the big confrontation was going to be between Michael and Mankind [the wrestler]. We had a whole number of ideas worked out for next year, so it was frustrating.


WOULD THIS HAVE CHANGED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MICHAEL AND THEO?


The way the thing was constructed was that, in theory, it wouldn’t have. Ultimately, without going through the whole thing, you would have gotten back to something very much approaching the status quo that you had previously.


IT’S JUST THAT YOU WOULD THINK THAT THEO WOULDN’T TRUST HIM ANY LONGER.


Exactly, but, again, with everything that was going to play out, that wouldn’t have been the case. Without giving too much away, it would have worked in the same way that it did in `Deep in My Heart is a Song`, where they completely changed the relationship. That’s where Theo basically kidnapped Michael and was prepared to take Michael home when he was in the coma, and then a week later you have the Bob Balaban show where he basically kills for Michael. In that same way, Michael was going to that sort of thing for Theo.


What was always great about the show — wow, that sounds immodest — what was always compelling, was that we were very willing to take the characters all the way to the margins in terms of their characters, because I always believed that the bonds between all of them were strong enough that you could always bring them back. That was part of what the cliffhanger was all about. You look at the cliffhanger and you think, `Well, there’s no way this is ever going back to the way it was,` but in fact there was a plan to do just that. And it wouldn’t have all just been a dream.


Ahh...so there it is. Not terribly in depth, but some amount of closure.