Creator Greg Daniels and firm did it once more, leaving viewers of Add with a brand new jaw-dropping cliffhanger within the present’s second season finale, “Obtain.”
The seven episodes of Season 2 moved close to future, tech-crossed lovers, Nathan (Robbie Amell) and Nora (Andy Allo), to some dramatic new locations, each bodily and emotionally. Specifically, the conspiracy round Nathan’s homicide grew to become clearer, which prompted their pull in direction of each other to degree up as an sudden corporeal curveball made their unimaginable relationship immediately potential.
**SPOILER WARNING! Spoilers for Add Season 2 under!**
In establishing the a number of storylines for “Obtain” — written by Daniel’s son and Lakeview’s A.I. Man, Owen Daniels — creator Daniels tells SYFY WIRE that all the notion of downloading an individual’s consciousness from the cloud again to a physique was one thing Owen launched in Season 1. “We clearly set it up earlier,” Daniels says, referencing Season 1, Episode 3, “The Funeral.” “However that was his concept for that episode, so it made sense for him to write down the large ‘Obtain’ episode, the place quite a bit occurs.”
Opening the episode, Nathan and Ingrid (Allegra Edwards) lastly sq. off about him not wanting a clone child together with her, or something to do together with her anymore, in any respect. “It is one among my favourite scenes of the present, with the pregnant dude on the wall simply looking at me,” Amell laughs, referring to the large breakup scene within the Lakeview Fertility workplace.
“After which once I’m like, ‘You care about my emotions, too, proper?’ And she or he’s like, ‘Nicely….’ She’s simply so humorous,” Amell enthuses about Edward’s work within the scene. “Nathan has this drawback that he does not need to be the unhealthy man. He by no means desires to finish one thing or break up with somebody. He hates crying. You discover out within the first episode of the primary season that he cannot deal with when a lady is crying, so he by no means desires that scenario. And she or he’s lastly like, ‘I am hug-suiting it.’ And he is like, ‘That is it!'”
Amell continues, “We shot a bunch of various variations of that ending and lots of occasions it was the dramatic model. However I used to be like, ‘Greg, I gotta attempt one the place I am similar to, ‘Lastly!’ and it is only a aid. And certain sufficient, that is the one they use. Then the loopy factor is correct after that, [Nathan] wants her once more as a result of I discover out that she’s rising me, so I want her to not homicide my ungrown physique within the tank.”
However earlier than he can try this, Nathan and Nora provide you with a plan, with assist from Matteo (Paulo Costanzo) and the Ludds, to get his reminiscence file from Horizen so he could be downloaded to that freshly grown Nathan. And meaning Nathan has to say goodbye to Luke (Kevin Bigley), who turns into the de facto BFF this season.
About deepening that bromance, Daniels says, “I’ll credit score Owen Daniels for that. He actually wrote in stunning comedy for Luke. They’re associates in actual life and he utterly will get how one can make that character humorous. Like, the stuff on the very finish of the present is all Owen.”
Amell categorizes their friendship as “bizarre,” and never the healthiest contemplating that, “Nathan does not actually deal with him that effectively, which is extra for comedy than anything. However I really like the scenes with Luke. Kevin is so nice and cracks me up a lot. And the ultimate goodbye scene with him, I used to be laughing so onerous.” Referencing the second that Luke cues up “I Cannot Reside” and bear hugs Nathan, Amell reveals that music didn’t exist after they have been taking pictures the scene.
“Greg added the music when he claps,” Amell laughs. After seeing the completed episode through a screener, Amell was so stunned that he emailed Greg asking whose concept was the music addition? “He is like, ‘Oh, yeah, I believed that will be humorous.’ And I am like, ‘Greg, it is my favourite second of the season.'”
From there, the massive twist reveal of Ingrid trying a “do-over” with the Nathan physique she has been rising secretly rounds out the occasions of the finale, with Amell getting so as to add extra bodily comedy to the position as Matteo makes an attempt to fish Nathan’s new physique out of the tank to allow them to full the obtain.
Amell says that scene took a complete shoot day in contrast to any he’d ever finished earlier than. “The weirdest factor was that once I was underneath the water, I could not hear. My ears have been stuffed with water and I’ve my eyes closed, so I can barely make out Allegra’s monologue adopted by her screaming; only a actually bizarre day of filming.”
And in a bizarre coincidence, Amell says he already knew Paulo Costanzo from when he labored together with his spouse, Italia Ricci, on the drama, Designated Survivor. “We had no scenes collectively [all season], however lastly we’re working collectively,” Amell says of the tank scene. “He is like, ‘What do you need to do right here?’ And I am like, ‘Truthfully, dude, something you need. I am protected. I had that bizarre diaper on, so I am sealed up. Simply do no matter,'” the actor laughs. “At one level, he had my ankles up round his head and I used to be making an attempt so onerous to not chortle. That is high three weirdest taking pictures days I’ve ever had in my life.”
Nathan will get fished out and at last meets Nora, within the flesh, for the primary time, the place they spend a cramped however passionate night time collectively on the prepare again residence. Whereas most reveals would have prolonged the ‘will they, will not they’ between two characters, Daniels says within the new streaming fashions, tales transfer faster.
“I really like the way in which the scene on the prepare got here out,” he enthuses. “I believe it was so charming and delicate, and it was executed very effectively by everybody concerned. And I believe it was lots of enjoyable. There was lots of enjoyable in that episode. It was an awesome one, so it felt like a great place to finish the season.”
Nevertheless it’s an terrible cliffhanger with it closing on Nathan getting a bloody nostril, which is likely to be the harbinger of his new physique rejecting his obtain process. Requested if an Add Season 3 is assured, Daniels solely affords, “We’ve lots of enjoyable plans for Season 3 already, so it will be fairly a shock if we did not have a Season 3.”
As for what number of seasons he might see Add going as a present, Daniels says that is an ongoing dialog. “I am simply making an attempt to determine how lengthy ought to we keep on this planet, as you by no means need to type of overstay your welcome,” he muses. “You all the time need to go away when persons are nonetheless fairly proud of it. However I positively assume that it may possibly go for one more few seasons.”
All episodes of Add Season 2 can be found now on Amazon Prime Video.
