“Unprisoned” creator and executive producer Tracey McMillan says she is happy with the outcome of her dramedy, and tells TheWrap she already has story ideas for a second season.
McMillan said, “We’re really happy with where we ended up and where we took these characters.” “I’m excited to see where we go next. I feel like we’ve really told a story about a family trying to put themselves back together again and we took it to heart.” And told with a lot of humour.
The Onyx Collective-Hulu Original series dropped all eight episodes on Hulu on March 10, and it’s now Onyx’s most-watched Hulu premiere ever, as well as the most-watched Hulu original script so far this year is series. Watch hours According to Onyx.
“Unprisoned” — which is loosely based on McMillan’s life — follows Paige (Kerry Washington), a relationship therapist obsessed with perfection. But her life takes a turn for the worse when her father – who is constantly in and out of prison – re-enters her life after being released from prison. Over the course of the season, the series depicts her troubled relationship with her stepmother, her son Finn (Feli Rakotohwana), who wishes to explore her blackness and systemic racism Inside the US prison system and how it disproportionately targets black men and jeopardizes their transition into everyday society.
The season ends with Mal (Markey Richardson) bailing Edwin (Delroy Lindo) out of jail after he was wrongfully arrested while driving home with Finn, leading to Mal and Edwin talking about how Edwin’s criminal past and bad behavior take a toll emotionally and mentally. Damaged Paige. Ultimately, Edwin has to take responsibility for himself and decides to move out of his daughter’s house and live his life.
“I felt like it was a really poignant ending, and I’m happy with it,” said McMillan, reflecting on the season and its final episode. ,[Edwin] Knows that as long as the roles are reversed, where her daughter is more like the parent and she is more like the child, it’s not going to work. So in any parent-child relationship, those dynamics have to be very clear, and the way power operates between parent and child has to be very clear. I feel like he is the one who is trying to make things right in the end by not being with her at least for a while.
There’s no word yet on whether or not the series will return for a second season, but McMillan already knows where she wants to take the characters’ stories.
“I think we need to learn more about Paige’s mother. I think Finn wants to learn more about his father,” McMillan said. “We’re going to continue exploring the family, we have eight episodes Were – we scratched the surface. There’s a lot more. I look forward to seeing what Edwin decides to do with this newfound autonomy; He stands up for himself. I want to see what Finn does, I think he’s going to be affected by whatever happens at the end of the season. I also want to see how Paige expands because she’s taken some really big risks at the end of the season, and they’re going to pay off for that professionally. I’m also looking forward to seeing what she does with her love life, I think she’s probably going into a period of experimentation and exploration before finding the place she’s really meant to be for the rest of her life . Like, his forever home in terms of relationships. And I say this because this has been my journey.
‘Unprison’ consists of Washington, Lindo, Rakotohwana, Richardson, Ji Young Han and Jordan McIntosh. Yvette Lee serves as showrunner and executive producer alongside Bowser McMillan, Washington, Lindo, Pilar Savon, Joy Gorman Wattles and Jenn Braden.
