When we pick up, Baby Billy has found more success than we’ve ever seen him before. Bible Bonkers is a smash hit and he’s got big plans for what he wants his follow-up to be.
After coming out of the closet, Kelvin has found a way to monetize being out of the closet, and he’s created his own prayer group that’s open to people of all lifestylesâlike he says, the pink money spends just the same as green. And so he’s found a venture that’s really working well for him, and of course this bristles Jesse. Because Jesse, as the first-born [son], feels like he should be the most successful, but he’s watching other people start casting shadows that he wasn’t expecting.
Judy and BJ deal with an unexpected tragedy this season that tests their relationship and their love. And then, ultimately, the patriarch, Eliâwe meet him in a much, much different place than we’ve ever seen him in seasons past, and he’s definitely going through some things in his life and trying to figure out how to take the next steps into whatever lays ahead for him, but because he’s a Gemstone and because his kids are psychopaths, that will not be as easy as it should be.
We take some massive swings this season with some stuff I donât think the audience is going to see coming, and Iâm very excited to see how it plays.
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When you’re writing these thingsâparticularly a season like this, that you know is going to be an endingâis it hard to strike that balance between giving people a satisfying resolution and letting these characters find happiness, versus having them learn nothing and continue to be children, which is so much of what this show is about comedically?
It’s always just finding that balance. Even when you’re approaching a finaleâwe would find ourselves constantly pulling stuff out that felt too sentimental. Where you’re like, “This feels like it’s well aware that it’s a finale.” We’re giving people moments that I don’t think the audience is even looking for. So I think we’re constantly aware of thatâof not selling out, at the end, what this is supposed to be.
