the since-departed Emily VanCamp), just episodes prior. «Conrad losing Nic is a terrible tragedy and we felt like if we were going to tell a true story of grief, it would last for a really long time.
And I don't think we wanted to spend multiple episodes, 10, however long it takes for a man to lose the love of his life and the mother of his 9-month-old child.
We felt like we would play the loss and the grief and the, 'What the hell just happened?' for a couple of episodes, and then do the time jump so we could find Conrad recovered, on the brink of, ready for whatever new version of his life there would be,» co-showrunner and executive producer Peter Elkoff tells ET. «It was really to avoid a prolonged grieving story because we wouldn't.
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