Season 3 • Episode 19
LatestRick and Lily face more life-altering decisions when he is offered a major architectural position in Australia and she is offered a chance to take her Chicago-based radio show into national syndication. The Series Finale Episode concludes with this show's traditionaly black and white breaking of the fourth wall but this time, its the actors and not the characters as they speak about the realtionships formed amid the cast and what the show has meant to them.
Acting
Sela Ward's face does more work than most scripts.
Writing
Zwick/Herskovitz dialogue that actually sounds like humans.
Direction
Those dreamy interstitial interviews? Revolutionary for 1999 TV.
Creators
Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was ABC's attempt to bring thirtysomething's prestige to the teen soap era—and it failed commercially because it was too adult for the time slot they gave it.
The documentary-style interviews with characters were improvised by the actors, and Shane West originally auditioned for a different role entirely.
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