How a lot have Todd (Skylar Astin) and Margaret (Marcia Gay Harden) discovered working collectively all season? They’re about to search out out within the So Help Me Todd Season 1 finale on May 18!
“Underneath all the expertise of working together and solving the cases and the whodunit that America is loving to solve is Margaret’s wish that Todd would just grow up and Todd’s wish is that mom would just stop controlling,” Harden advised TV Insider when she stopped by just lately. “And I think when you see the finale, you’ll see how we’ve accomplished that maybe hopefully a little bit kind of yes.”
In “Are You There Todd? It’s Me, Margaret” (an episode title we love), Margaret is simply too sick to work on the ultimate day of an necessary negotiation, so Todd should step in and act as proxy whereas she tackles his regular function. “Unfortunately we ended up cutting a lot of the Margaret investigating stuff because it was so long, so I think you’re going to see Todd doing a lot more lawyering and you’re going to see Margaret doing some very successful, very fast investigating,” Harden shared.
There’s additionally going to be a while for a little bit of romance, with Margaret and Gus (Jeffrey Nordling) sharing their first kiss. “I’d like more,” Harden mentioned with fun. “Margaret and Gus have been kind of flirting with each other in a battle of the sexes kind of way. They’ve been dancing around each other and they really like each other, but they’re polar opposites, which is where a lot of fun comes in. He’s kind of frumpy and sloppy, but really, really good and she’s absolutely not sloppy. She’s who she is. She’s had a little bit of her vanity and issues and how those two meet in blood is actually quite passionate.”
Watch the total video above for rather more, together with Harden’s ideas on Margaret winking at Todd when it got here to picking her favourite child at Thanksgiving, her relationship with Allison (Madeline Wise), and behind-the-scenes anecdotes.
So Help Me Todd, Season 1 Finale, Thursday, May 18, 9/8c, CBS