
GILPIN: Well, I knew very little about AI going into this show. What was your initial reaction to that revelation? Davis is actually the beta version of an app created originally for Buffalo Wild Wings…which seems like a ridiculous sentence to even say.
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So, the second half of the series really flips everything we thought we knew about the show on its head. Davis and find the Grail, it made her a better, more honest nun.ĭEADLINE: Ok. Her having to go out there and conquer Mrs. I think she still had her middle finger up to much of the world. I think that she wasn’t really doing that part. You’re connecting, yes, to the beauty of the world, but also opening your arms to the ugly of the world, just as much as you are to the beauty. From what I understand, the nuns that I talked to quite the contrary. It’s not about cloistering yourself and shutting yourself off from what you didn’t like about the world. I also think that Simone has been compartmentalizing herself as a nun that.

Or that it’s not going to be like this forever. This isn’t a perfect relationship between Jay and Simone.
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This is my boyfriend and no one else’s, even though I’m in denial that probably it is.’ I think that Jay’s acknowledgment of Wiley and hers connection, it’s sort of pointing to another crack in their armor. She had her compartmentalization brain perfectly set up that, ‘We’ll just not talk about these things and life will continue on, and I will visit falafel whenever I want. But I think that, for Simone, she wishes she could just freeze like how it is in the pilot before everything explodes, literally and figuratively. I think she knew in her heart that she wasn’t the only person who went to falafel. GILPIN: I think that in many ways, Simone has compartmentalized relationship and chooses not to think about certain aspects of the relationship. Why do you think it’s so hard for her to accept? That was some of the funnest days that we had on the whole shoot.ĭEADLINE: When Jay actually gives Simone his blessing to reconnect with Wiley and act on those feelings, she does not take it well. It was also Jake and I really saying goodbye to this experience and wanting to milk every moment possible. We wanted to see the way in which Simone and Wiley worked and had fun together and couldn’t help but enjoy each other - hich was not hard to do with Jake McDorman. So we realized ‘Oh, in Episode 5, even in these reactions, we sort of have to get from being enemies to having something sizzling there.’ And we didn’t want Episode 6 to come up and the audience to be like, ‘Well, what the hell? There’s old feelings?’ So we knew that, even though the star of Episode 5 is really the backstory Matilda and the Sisters of the Coin plot, we knew that we also had some movements to do in our arc. So we had filmed Episode 6 already and knew that basically Episode 6 is when Wiley and Simone hook up. We shot Episodes 3, 4 and 5 in Spain, and that was at the tail end of our shoot. How did you film those? Was it mostly improv with Jake?īETTY GILPIN: That was the last scene we shot in the whole series. But their reactions are hilarious and such welcome intercuts. All we really see of Simone and Wiley in that episode is their reactions to the story of Matilda and the Sisters of the Coin. Davis, how Simone’s faith journey evolved throughout the final episodes, and how her perceptions of AI changed with this story.ĭEADLINE: We haven’t spoken since the first four episodes debuted, so before we get into the finale, I want to ask about Episode 5.

Gilpin spoke with Deadline about why Simone hesitated when she finally had the chance to get rid of Mrs. In the end, Simone does complete her goal of destroying the Holy Grail and shutting off Mrs. Davis is like a little robot kid that just wants to please its mom.” “It knocks Simone on her ass in terms of realizing, I think in her head she thought she was defeating this evil soulless mother thing - like she thought she was fighting her mother in a way. “I loved it,” Gilpin told Deadline of the revelation. And the Holy Grail? That’s actually the company’s policy of 100% customer satisfaction. Like those expiration dates that can fast track people’s wings? Yeah, those are just coupons. The company tried to pass, but Joy was determined to “shoehorn philanthropy into this app for chicken wings,” so she redeveloped the app to suit those needs. It’s a moving speech and all, but this is just a restaurant chain, after all. Davis' Showrunner Tara Hernandez On WGA Strike Solidarity, Solitary, & ChatGPT - Guest Columnīut in 2013, Joy is just an eager young coder sitting in the Buffalo Wild Wings corporate offices, pitching executives an app that can “service us without harming us” by constantly evolving to get to know its users better and prioritize community care and mutual aid.
