“Firefly Lane” Season 2 Part 1 left viewers hanging in more ways than one, but Part 2 ties up those loose ends.
Except Kate (Sarah Chalke) and Tully (Katherine Heigl) are barely missing each other on opposite elevators as Kate tries to deliver some devastating news to her best friend, after a suggestive wedding between Johnny and Tully. A short clip of the scene in the credits of the final episode of the Netflix series.
Throughout Part 2 of Season 2, the puzzle pieces of the scene slowly come together, but at first it appears that Tully, dressed in white, may be getting ready to marry Johnny after Kate dies. As it turned out, it was Marah’s wedding, and Tully ended up with Danny.
“We wanted to guide the audience a little bit and make them wonder, ‘Is Tully going to marry Johnny? Is she going to marry Danny? What’s happening?'” show runner Maggie Friedman told TheWrap. Told.” She just wears a white slip because she’s getting ready. She gets dressed, and the veil is behind her as it is Mara’s veil. We thought it would be fun to play with audience expectations.”
Author Kristin Hannah made sure to advise Friedman not to let a man come in the middle of such a strong female friendship, as this did not happen in her book either.
“That was really my biggest fear in allowing this piece to be adapted because it was so important to me that a man didn’t come between these two, that a man wasn’t the reason for their anger or their joy or whatever because We’ve seen a lot of it,” Hannah told TheWrap. “I think the real strength of the piece is it’s not just Kate and Tully. Johnny allows this friendship to flourish, their marriage to take this far, their life to take this far because he loves both of them.” Loves it too. I thought that was really important. It’s a joy to see a female friendship like this flourish over the course of the seasons – we don’t see it enough.
Early in the friendship, when Kate (Ron Curtis) and Tully (Ali Skovby) were still in high school, a poignant school play scene brought this concept home. Their high school play was “Romeo and Juliet,” but the boy playing Romeo didn’t have the courage to publicly admit that he liked Kate. Kate steps in to play Romeo in Tully’s Juliet because she’s the only one who has all the lines memorized.
“I always felt like this story was about platonic soulmates. It is a platonic love story between Kate and Tully. Even though Johnny is her man and they are engaged, really, Tully is the love of her life, and he is the love of Tully’s life,” Freedman said. “We came up with the idea that it’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and at the last second, Kate has to step in and play Romeo to play up the fact that they love each other very much. We found that It felt very poetic, that Kate had to do a death scene as a teenager, in terms of knowing what was coming.
All episodes of “Firefly Lane” Season 2 Part 2 are now streaming on Netflix.