I’m so afraid of being caught flat-footed, so I hyper, hyper prepare, and I kind of write the same way of just, we know everything. It’s like, I don’t know what the f**k I’m doing in this industry, so the way I direct, I over-prepare. It just comes from my own panic and fear. So, all of those threads that we were laying in throughout were all intentional. My brain works very different, so this time, I knew from the funnel cake in Episode 1 that was going to come back somewhere in the middle. He will just write something and then we’ll figure it out later, and I don’t mean to be flippant at all about mental illness, but I have crazy story OCD, so it was always terrifying to me. JAMES: Being lucky to have worked with Kurt on Mayans for the first two seasons, he flies so loose. Being fired up, I just plotted out, “This is what we’re going to do,” and John Landgraf, after I finished and took a breath, was basically just like, “Okay, pull it off.” And hopefully we did.ĭEADLINE: Did you consider any alternate endings? Were there storylines that you considered taking in a different direction?

Then, I went in and actually pitched that to FX and 20th.

But we knew pretty soon on, where we were going to end. He also teased what’s to come in Season 4, which promises to be EZ’s darkest chapter yet, touching on the “consequences” Santo Padre faces for its attempted coup.ĭEADLINE: How long ago did you figure out your ending for Season 3?ĮLGIN JAMES: What’s wild is that we finished Season 2 and then the hiatus, at least for me, was about a week and a half, and then it was like, “We need to start Season 3!” So, it took off and I was just like, “I need to figure this out.” By the time we started the writers’ room, I knew our first scene and the last scene, and I just needed the help of the brilliant writers to…piece it all together. Ahead of tonight’s finale, showrunner Elgin James spoke with Deadline, to break down its pivotal events.

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