‘Quantum Leap’: Showrunners Address Tuesday Finale And Possibility Of Season 3 For NBC Drama
21.02.2024 - 04:25
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SPOILER ALERT! This story contains plot points from Tuesday’s season finale of Quantum Leap on NBC.
The two-part finale of NBC‘s reboot of the popular 1990s sci-fi drama wrapped in a tidy and uplifting manner — meaning it could serve as a series finale if the drama doesn’t earn a third season pickup.
Here, co-showrunners Martin Gero and Dean Georgaris talk about how long they’ve been planning that happens in the season 2 finale, along with why it was so important to feature a massive Butterfly Effect, and what fans could expect if the series makes it to season 3.
DEADLINE It feels like you’ve crafted this to potentially work as a series finale. Was that the plan?
DEAN GEORGARIS Interestingly, we actually didn’t craft it to be a series finale. The fact that Ben [Raymond Lee] and Addison [Caitlin Bassett] are in the same physical space can feel like a completion, of sorts, of the first part of their journey. But what we wanted to do for season two was to tell a really emotional story with this incredible cast that we had. And the way we did that was to split Ben and Addison up emotionally, to break them up. When we got the early renewal for season two, we knew we were not going to end it on a cliffhanger. We were going to end it on the first scene from season three, and we’re going to end it with the two characters together, but in a way that you never expected. And that sort of says to the audience, ‘look at all the great places we can go.’ So if it feels like a completion for audiences, that’s wonderful. It is a completion of part of the journey, but I think for us, it serves as the launch for the rest of the journey.
DEADLINE Quantum Leap is considered a bubble show. What’s it like to be sitting on the bubble?
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