The Resident delivered a cliffhanger of essentially the most literal selection in its Dec. 6 fall finale, as new mother Padma contemplated taking her personal life whereas within the throes of postpartum despair.
Naturally, collection co-creator Amy Holden Jones can’t say precisely what’s going to occur when the Fox drama returns on Jan. 3 (8/7c). But after the present left Padma poised to probably soar off a bridge, Jones gives perception as to why Padma’s suicide try felt like an comprehensible alternative for the character.
“What fascinates me is the idea of someone who gets into a pregnancy without really understanding it, who has never had those kinds of responsibilities, and then, lo and behold, has twins without a partner and gets overwhelmed. That’s a growing-up event, you know?” the EP shares with TVLine. “And the fact that it’s causing an emotional break is something very believable to me. She doesn’t have the skill set to deal with these kinds of overwhelming things.”
Even extra jarring for Padma, Jones says, was the expectation that she could be a “flower-child, lovely, easygoing mom” upon giving delivery, contemplating her work as a yoga teacher and beforehand carefree way of living. But “it didn’t work out the way she thought it would, and that’s another interesting journey,” she continues. “There is no journey if people don’t have internal as well as external obstacles to face, so now there’s this obstacle.”
And there are constructive indications that Padma will survive her present ordeal when Season 6 resumes, if solely as a result of Jones teases Padma’s down-the-road relationship with Raptor — and it would shock you to know {that a} romantic future is probably going off the desk for the pair.
“We debated early on if she could end up with Raptor, and we decided no, that was not where we wanted to go,” Jones divulges. “We can now have a very complicated, interesting situation where people are co-parenting who are not really lovers. What does that look like? How do people cope? It’s a good question, and an interesting area for drama.”
Of course, per Jones, “it’s possible” {that a} romance between Padma and Raptor might finally really feel proper. But “as we built their scenes, it seemed like such a wonderful world to create a dear friendship, a really close friendship that we wanted to see. So we went that way instead,” she says, including that it’s been a problem to seek out Raptor an appropriate romantic accomplice since Shaunette Renée Wilson’s Mina left the present in Season 4.
“Unfortunately, Mina’s quite difficult to replace, both for him emotionally and for me emotionally,” Jones admits with amusing. “I had absolutely no desire to see her go. That was really painful. But there will be an answer, for sure. It’s also possible the love of [Raptor’s] life will be his sons.”
If you’re serious about suicide, are frightened a couple of buddy or beloved one, or would love emotional assist, dial “988” for the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
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