“My Life With the Walter Boys” boss unpacks all these season 2 finale cliffhangers: ‘It is an enormous deal’

This text incorporates spoilers for the My Life With the Walter Boys season 2 finale.

My Life With the Walter Boys won’t ever be the identical after that stunning season 2 finale.

Netflix's teen drama blew all the things up for the love triangle within the episode's remaining moments, as Jackie (Nikki Rodriguez) lastly admitted to Cole (Noah LaLonde) that she's in love with him after he confessed his emotions for her. However his youthful brother — and her secret boyfriend — Alex (Ashby Gentry) overheard their total passionate confession.

As if that wasn't sufficient emotional torment for the three teenagers, they had been instantly interrupted by the revelation that one thing occurred to the boys' father George (Marc Blucas). Whereas they didn't discover out any particular particulars about his destiny, an ambulance was already rushing in direction of the home.

"We ended season 1 on a fairly large cliffhanger, so in fact we needed to be larger and higher in season 2," showrunner Melanie Halsall tells Leisure Weekly. "I actually needed to present all of the characters an enormous factor to take care of in these final moments. Jackie's had her fling with Alex, and issues have come to a head with Cole the place they’ll't ignore their emotions for one another anymore. However as a result of this sequence has been about identification and household, I additionally needed to blow an enormous gap in the entire household dynamic as effectively on the finish, not simply within the trio."

Fortunately, My Life With the Walter Boys has already been renewed for a 3rd season (at present in manufacturing), so followers will ultimately get some closure for all these cliffhangers. However the showrunner warns that the fallout will impression each character shifting ahead.

"I needed to blow the entire thing aside in ways in which we weren't anticipating and in methods which are going to have large repercussions, and the characters must take care of these repercussions for fairly a while," Halsall says.

Beneath, the showrunner talks with EW about that stunning finale ending and what followers can count on when the present returns for season 3.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: We do not know what occurred with George, however needing an ambulance isn't an excellent signal. What are you able to tease about what occurred and his destiny going into season 3?

MELANIE HALSALL: I actually can't say, I'm so sorry. I hate to go away you hanging. It's an enormous deal and there will probably be lots of fallout from what occurred on the finish of season 2 all through season 3.

Is Marc Blucas nonetheless within the forged for season 3?

Am I allowed to reply that query? [A representative for the show declined to comment on Blucas' season 3 status.]

Jackie’s confession to Cole was intense. Has she all the time identified how deep her emotions are for him, or is she simply now realizing it as she’s making her speech?

It’s a little bit of each. She's been avoiding these emotions for him for a very long time. Her guilt over what occurred on the finish of season 1, giving into her emotions, a personality like Jackie goes to double down in the wrong way, as a result of she didn't really feel like she behaved the proper means at that second. She carries lots of guilt and emotions from that second, and he or she comes again to Silver Falls actually desirous to cement her life on this household and reintegrating herself into this group. She determined that's the place her life goes to be, and so a part of that’s not blowing this household up, not upsetting Alex or anybody else within the household and even Cole. The one means she will be able to do that’s by denying her emotions.

She and Cole resolve to develop into buddies, however when he alters after what he sees on the finish of episode 9, when he’s pushing her away, that's when she realizes how a lot she feels for him. When she confronts him on that and he confesses to her, she will be able to't not reciprocate at that time as a result of this has been effervescent up inside her the complete present. It's lots simpler for him to say as a result of he's received his coronary heart on his sleeve the place Jackie's involved. However for Jackie, that confession is pulled out of her as she says, "I like you. Are we achieved? Can I’m going now?" As a result of it took so much for her to say that, and it's virtually like, "If I confess that I like you, can we then try to transfer ahead?"

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In fact for Jackie, a confession of affection is then adopted by, "Let's transfer on." She simply confessed that she beloved him, that is the begin of one thing. In the event that they hadn’t been interrupted, first by Alex after which by the invention of George's well being disaster, would they’ve kissed?

No matter she decides to do subsequent goes to be tough. Somebody's going to get damage. Regardless of the awfulness of these two moments, there's a component for her of aid that she doesn't need to both transfer ahead with Cole that in that second or inform him she's not going to, or go and inform Alex that she's [in love with Cole]. There's a lot of issues happening for her so an interruption is a blessed aid for her.

Cole simply heard Jackie's confession. Alex additionally heard it. What goes by means of each of those brothers' minds in that second?

These brothers have been at one another's throats for such a very long time, and in season 2 they've come to this uneasy understanding the place they’ve tried to place the occasions of the previous behind them. Wrapped up in that can also be, for Cole, guilt, understanding that he's damage his brother once more by listening to what he's simply stated.

Cole's one of the honorable, if not essentially the most honorable, character in our present. He takes on all people's emotions and damage and issues and he by no means throws anyone underneath the bus or blames anybody else for his issues, however he simply takes all that emotion on himself and pushes it down inside. So for Cole to harm his brother once more, even by Alex simply overhearing what he stated, not to mention what Jackie stated, that's going to be actually exhausting for him.

For Alex, earlier on within the season he does say that he knew there was one thing between them. He's not silly, however he's been denying his emotions and information there as effectively. So listening to that will probably be an actual turning level for him. Whether or not he'll be damage, in fact that'll be very tough for him, but it surely is perhaps what he wants to listen to.

Why did you wish to discover a relationship between Jackie and Alex once more in season 2?

Many people have been in a state of affairs the place we’ve perhaps decided pertaining to a different individual we've been in love with that we’d not have made [otherwise]. Somebody does one thing we don't need, however we take them again. You possibly can't recover from them, so that you give a relationship one other strive. You really need it to work even when the sensible factor to do is to stroll away. I believe that's actually relatable.

Alex comes again from his rodeo college together with his glow-up, and he's very fashionable with the ladies now, however Jackie's the one which sees him and the way susceptible he’s and that beneath continues to be the candy Alex that we knew in season 1. Youngsters typically do change bodily in a short time and we strive on completely different personalities, and lots of that’s about exploring who you truly are. His relationship with Jackie is a component and parcel of all that — it's him making an attempt on a persona, wanting this to be the suitable factor, desirous to forgive this lady that he actually has very robust emotions for and desires it to work out.

And Jackie additionally needs it to work out — Alex is the proper boyfriend for her on paper. He's her secure house, he forgives her, and he's so candy to her when she's on the most susceptible. And they’re attracted to one another, particularly extra so after Alex's glow-up. On the coronary heart of it’s they each simply really need it to be the suitable factor.

What are you able to tease about the place this love triangle is heading in season 3?

Our present is a love triangle, clearly, and I don't know if these can ever actually be resolved. Somebody's all the time going to get their coronary heart damaged. I can't say something about season 3, however I’ll say that we delve deeper into the lives and loves of our characters in new and fascinating methods.

The finale additionally hinted that Alex may lastly be realizing he has emotions for Kiley — in fact, simply as she begins a relationship with another person. How will that be explored subsequent season?

Kylie has actually been in love with Alex without end, and Alex has by no means actually seen it earlier than. It takes him seeing her, because it typically does, with anyone else taking curiosity in her for him to begin to perceive that. Alex, with regard to all his relationships, has in all probability some rising as much as do and a few self-reflection to do. It's going to get very fascinating.

This interview has been edited for size and readability.

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