‘Firefly Lane’: Sarah Chalke On Kate’s Big Season 2A Finale Revelation, Her Rift With Tully, 1980s Hair & Misogyny And Show’s Last Chapter
04.12.2022 - 03:23
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Netflix’s Firefly Lane, starring Sarah Chalke and Katherine Heigl, has returned with the first nine episodes of its second and final season.
They resolved the two big Season 1 cliffhangers, Johnny’s fate after he was struck by an explosion in Iraq (He survived and was cared for by Kate during his difficult physical and mental recovery), and what destroyed Kate (Chalke) and Tully’s (Heigl) unbreakable bond.
Season 2A carefully peeled off the lawyers of that mystery over several episodes until it was revealed that Tully’s car, with Marah in it, was hit, sending both to the hospital, after Tully had ignored Kate’s orders to keep Marah grounded and got behind the wheel on a couple of glasses of wine.
Tully’s numerous attempts to apologize and reconcile with Kate fell on deaf ears. Kate even tried to make a new friend in writing class but when in the end of the midseason finale she was diagnosed with cancer, Kate found herself knocking on Tully’s door, only to miss her by a minute as Tully, heartbroken over the dissolution of their friendship, took off to film a documentary in Antarctica.
Kate and Johnny are on different trajectories in the two time periods they overlap, breaking up in the 1980s when he doesn’t want kids (with Kate taking in a British boyfriend, Theo), while reconciling and getting engaged in the early 2000s.
In an interview with Deadline, Scrubs alumna Chalke unpacks the emotional final scene in the midseason finale, discusses Kate and Tully’s falling out, her love for 1980s style (which may or may not include Johnny’s hair), Kate’s decision to take the blame for Tully setting the station on fire and get fired as a result, as well as the show’s depiction of the misogyny in the TV industry.
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