‘The Girl From Plainville’ Showrunners Explain Finale, How They Figured Out ‘How Much Is Too Much’ in Sensitive Story
variety.comEmily Longeretta SPOLER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Blank Spaces,” the May 3 episode of “The Girl From Plainville,” now streaming on Hulu.Hulu’s “The Girl From Plainville” has come to an end.
The eight-episode true-crime drama followed the real case of Michelle Carter and Conrad “Coco” Roy III, with the final episode revealing that she has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.In a title card at the end, it’s revealed that Michelle began her 15-month sentence in February 2019 and was released early in January 2020 due to good conduct.
While those hearings could have been shown more, instead, the drama dove into a dream-like sequence in which Elle Fanning’s Michelle imagines what their lives could have been like if Colton Ryan’s Coco hadn’t died by suicide.
In this alternate reality, the duo never dated. Instead, he ghosted her after their Florida meeting, and now they happen to run into each other at a bar while she’s home for the holidays, talking about the future they could have had.“There was constantly, as there always is, a push and pull as to how much is too much,” co-showrunner Patrick Macmanus tells Variety about figuring out just how many courtroom scenes to have. “What we were ultimately trying to land on was finding a balancing act between Episode 6 and 7, and finding that balancing act between how we are approaching the facts of the case and how we’re approaching the emotions of the case.
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