‘Full Circle’ Writer Ed Solomon Explains the Bittersweet Finale and the Dennis Quaid Subplot That Didn’t Make the Final Cut
variety.comJ. Kim Murphy SPOILER ALERT: This interview discusses the final episode of “Full Circle,” now streaming on Max.
It’s fitting that everyone ends up back where they started at the conclusion of “Full Circle” – well, everyone that’s not dead or in police custody.
Things comes crashing into each other before those final moments, though. Parallel storylines reach a shared — and complicated — dramatic climax when Louis (Gerald Jones) sneaks into the Browne family’s spacious New York apartment to snag an expensive painting that can give him and his sister, Natalia (Adia), enough leverage to return to their home country Guyana, away from the Mafia war in which they’ve become entangled.
But Samantha (Claire Danes) is on the premises, pulling a gun on Louis and demanding that he leave. The two are strangers, but a key exchange sparks a realization for Sam: Louis says he is from Essequibo, a riverside area in Guyana that was the site of a nonexistent real estate development decades ago — part of a Ponzi scheme that produced enough capital for Sam to build a media empire for her father (Dennis Quaid), a ponytailed culinary guru who goes by Chef Jeff.
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