Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “A Bright and Cloudless Morning,” the May 16 season finale of “9-1-1: Lone Star.”The third season of “9-1-1: Lone Star” came to an end Monday with a moment years in the making: T.K. (Ronen Rubinstein) proposing to his boyfriend Carlos (Rafael Silva). It’s been a long and rocky road at times for these two, but “9-1-1” and “Lone Star” showrunner Tim Minear finally gave the couple what they — and fans — have long hoped would happen.But, in typical “Lone Star” fashion, the proposal was very unconventional and prompted by advice T.K.
got from his father, Owen (Rob Lowe), who had just survived a building collapse and serious 9/11 flashbacks. Variety spoke with Rubinstein and Minear about the happy turn of events and the behind-the-scenes making of the “Tarlos” proposal.Do you think it had to be T.K. who proposed to Carlos? Ronen Rubinstein: For multiple seasons now, everybody is always asking the question, who would do the proposal? Actually, the fans were always correct.
I always remember it being polled in the high 80s-and-90% of everybody guessing that it would be T.K. I always thought it was going to be T.K. as well, because I think it sort of had to be T.K.
in order to redeem himself. Obviously, we have the trauma of the pilot and his first proposal going terribly wrong. I think it’s a beautiful full circle of T.K.’s wish to come true: hopefully spending the rest of his life with the man that he loves and he feels is the perfect person for him.
And I think that’s what Carlos symbolizes for T.K. And I was very relieved that it was going to be T.K. that asked for his hand in marriage.What did you think of the way T.K. proposes to Carlos?
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