![]() How far into the process of Season 2 were you as such events began to unfold? Looking at the world at the moment there’s just no shortage of arenas to dive into.ĭEADLINE: A lot of this season mirrored almost real-time events, especially in a Germany that has stumbled into its own past and saw the return of the far Right to the Bundestag. I think the ensemble nature of the show undergirds it with such potential in terms of character-based storytelling. WINTERS: Well, fortunately, I think it’s a show that just lends itself to continuous story both in the global sense and in the character sense. ![]() One has fingers crossed.ĭEADLINE: More than crossed, have those fingers of yours been outlining some scripts for next season? Fortunately, we’ve had a lot of true support from the studio and network but we’ll see. Joslyn Diaz and Epix at large have been great supporters of this show, real advocates, real supporters as have Paramount. WINTERS: Obviously there’s been the new management with MGM and then Michael Wright taking over at Epix so I know it’s a time of great transition. There’s nothing wrong with either of those but being able to transition between those two at will, I think, is one of the ways that Berlin Station hopefully has distinguished itself.ĭEADLINE: So, with all that, what are the prospects looking like for a Season 3? I think that’s where the show can be strongest and certainly most sort of exciting and satisfying to write for is that fluidity and not having to be pigeonholed in the slow burn of a character drama or the plot-centric ways of a thriller. WINTERS: I think now, at the end of the finale, where, scene-to-scene, you get to sort of transition from heart-wrenching emotional material to action-packed material. So it sort of was taking care of more than just the question of what do we do about Hector.ĭEADLINE: In a pretty close to home and reality season, at least geopolitically, what were the other questions you pondered? What are they going to do about it? That’s the essential question of the final episode is what do they do about the fix that they’re in? The apparent death of Hector seemed to be their best way out in a sense. When all the narrative streams converged as we broke the finale we realized Berlin Station is in a serious fix with the threat of expulsion from Germany. WINTERS: Keeping the Season 1 Hector storyline in mind - and this sort of self-punitive torture that he went through as Thomas Shaw, as Daniel said in Season 1 - letting Hector go free was not necessarily equivalent to liberty for Hector. You always want to go with the movement of greatest creative integrity even if you don’t want to say goodbye to the character, but we really did discuss it a lot.ĭEADLINE: How did those discussions lead to the sailing off into the sunset of the finale? We obviously discussed a lot what to do about Hector and killing him off. ![]() How can he join the fold of the station again given his status? One of the great creative challenges of the second season was how to make the Hector character fit into things in a natural way - in a credible way. WINTERS: We went into the season with very open minds as to what to do with Hector regarding the situation he was in post Season 1. Rhys’ character feels like the heart and primary stimulant of Berlin Station, was that why he couldn’t ultimately die in the end? Additionally, The Americans alum addressed he and his writing staff’s political prophecy and whether or not Berlin Station will actually be back for a third season.ĭEADLINE: In the end, Season 2 really played out as the return, downfall, death, and redemption of Hector DeJean. The EP also discussed working with Judd amidst the unfolding Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations. With the consequences and deflection of the spy game, the shifts on the international landscape and some narrative nimbleness all in hand, Winters spoke with me about tonight’s finale and the weaving road to get there. and German relations and a sail off into the sunset. ![]() Then there’s return of ex-Station chief Steven Frost (Richard Jenkins) and the semi-retired Hector DeJean (Rhys Ifans) to Berlin Station and, after the cavalry almost make it, you have a scampering series that literally ends with DeJean’s presumed death to save U.S. Add to that a compromising and potentially compromised hardliner in PfD second-in-command Joseph Emerich (Heino Frech). Riddled with uncanny similarities to the real politick of the past several months, Yates, Daniel Miller (Richard Armitage), Robert Kirsch ( Leland Orser), Valerie Edwards (Michelle Forbes) plus new addition April Lewis (Keke Palmer) and local spy boss Esther Krug (Mina Tander) all try to prevent a terror attack and assassination ploy orchestrated by the Far Right to influence the German voting. ![]()
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