RELATED STORIES Freeform Sets Good Trouble Season 2 Premiere Freeform Sets Good Trouble Season 2 Premiere Shadowhunters' 2.5-Hour Series Finale Event Gets Date Good Trouble took viewers by surprise last week when Dennis left a potentially suicidal voicemail on his ex-wife’s cell. But what exactly happened after that emotional phone call is “definitely intended to be a mystery and a cliffhanger,” executive Joanna Johnson says, adding that the audience is “meant to be pretty worried about him.” Most of the other residents of The Coterie, however, are not aware of Dennis’ message, going into Tuesday’s Season 1 finale (Freeform, 8/7c). “I think people are used to not seeing Dennis for a few days, and I don’t think they’re really missing him necessarily yet,” Johnson explains. But because Davia knows that Dennis lost a child and is going through a divorce, not to mention the fact that she heard his potential last words, she “is far more freaked out than anybody else.” The storyline shows “how really invested Davia is in Dennis, and that they do have this very special relationship,” Johnson adds. Popular on TVLine Elsewhere in the season ender, Mariana gets the opportunity “to have her own team and develop her own app,” Johnson previews, “but she’s caught in sort of a bind because she’s also started this women-in-tech ‘fight club,’ and she’s obligated and invested in making sure that they’re closing the gender and race pay gap.” As a result, she says, Mariana is faced with a dilemma: “‘Do I just gotta save myself, because now I’m getting an opportunity? Or do I stick with women in solidarity? '” Meanwhile, Callie’s got two big decisions of her own to make, including a very crucial one at work. “She’s really torn between the letter of the law and the ethics of her clerkship, and the fact that she really wants to see justice for Jamal and for Malika and for Sandra, Jamal’s mother,” Johnson shares. Then there’s Callie’s other big choice: hunky artist Gael, or handsome lawyer Jamie? (Tough life!) “She’s also torn between these two men, who represent very different parts of herself and very different people and paths for her life.” Good Trouble fans, what do you think Callie and Mariana should do? Sound off in the comments!<doc-sep>RELATED STORIES Freeform Sets Good Trouble Season 2 Premiere Freeform Sets Good Trouble Season 2 Premiere Party of Five Reboot Lands Series Order at Freeform Warning: The following contains spoilers for Tuesday’s Good Trouble finale. Good Trouble‘s Season 1 finale was full of choices, both of the romantic and professional persuasion. Callie found herself torn between Gael and Jamie during a tango dance dream sequence, while also dealing with whether or not to give some damning files to the plaintiffs in the Jamal case. Meanwhile, Mariana stood up in solidarity with her female colleagues — and kissed Raj! — but decided it might be time for her to leave Speckulate, after which Evan told her that the company owns her activism app. Elsewhere, Davia finally heard from Dennis, who had checked himself into a 48-hour hold at the hospital, and Alice learned that her parents already know that she’s gay. Plus, Malika helped her brother accept their mother’s brain-dead prognosis. Below, executive producer Joanna Johnson reveals whether Callie picked a beau and talks about Davia’s surprise feelings for Dennis. Plus, the EP previews what’s in store for Season 2. Popular on TVLine TVLINE | It was such a relief to find out that Dennis is OK. Did you ever consider going another way with that storyline? No. We love the character, and we love the actor [Josh Pence]. We wanted to do a story about grief and how grief is such a long process, and how you grieve the loss of a child, which I can’t imagine anything worse in the world happening to anyone. So we definitely didn’t want to have him to take his life, and we feel pretty sensitive about being very, very careful not to encourage or romanticize suicide in any way at all. [We wanted] to try to tell a story about how to deal with grief and how to deal with depression in a life-affirming way, and that’s ultimately where we want to go with the story. TVLINE | Going forward, what can we expect out of Dennis’ journey and his friendship with Davia? We learn that Davia doesn’t want to go back to Pittsburgh, has sort of gotten tired of waiting for Jeff and realizes that she deserves more. But [she’s] also realizing, in this fear of losing Dennis, that she really loves this guy. She has feelings for Dennis that she has to unpack. So going forward, that’s definitely going to be something that Davia’s going to be dealing with. But as you see in the finale, Jeff shows up and says, “I left my wife finally,” so she’s in this position where, “Oh, my God, I finally got this guy to leave his wife. What do I do now? How do I dump him? And I’m not sure that’s what I want.” She’s very confused going into the next season. TVLINE | We did not find out what Callie decided when it comes to Gael and Jamie, but in her mind, did she choose somebody in this episode? No, she has not made a choice in this episode. TVLINE | The final scene with her pushing both guys away, I interpreted it as her choosing herself. That is part of it, yes. In Season 2, you see that, and then, I will say, an eventual choice is made. TVLINE | Both Gael and Jamie are such good, viable love interests for her. Is there a part of you that hates to see the love triangle go? Just because she maybe makes a choice doesn’t mean the love triangle is going. That’s going to stay alive for a long time. No choices that you make when you’re 23 years old are permanent. They’re all in flux. I think that Callie continues to struggle with those two sides of herself that those two guys represent and with her feelings for both of them. TVLINE | It looks like you had a lot of fun with the tango dream sequence in this episode. Where did the idea for that come from? When I first walked the set of The Coterie, I, for some reason, immediately thought of Moulin Rouge and the tango sequence in that. I’m always saying about the writing, in every story, “Where’s the conundrum?” I like to see characters torn between two choices and not sure what choice to make. In Moulin Rouge, she doesn’t know whether she should go with the rich guy, save the play, or whether she should leave and be with the young starving artist. I just thought, “We gotta do a tango in here.” I later thought, “OK, so it’s going to be about making a choice between not just the two guys, but between Malika and the judge and what they represent in her life and career.” So I like the idea of having a tango with her feelings, with her conundrum. TVLINE | Where do things stand for Callie, professionally, going into Season 2? We don’t know whether she gave Officer Griffin’s personnel file to the plaintiffs or not. She has that debate with herself, which was really fun to shoot as well. I got that idea in some ways from Orphan Black. It’s amazing the way they shot that. I also felt like Callie has no one to talk to, and so she has to talk to herself. There’s a side of herself that’s saying, “Don’t do something stupid. It’s unethical,” and another side that’s saying, “What’s unethical is that he’s not getting a fair trial and these personnel files aren’t coming to light.” So we go into next season not knowing whether she gave the files or not. If she did give them, she’s in a tremendous amount of trouble, ultimately, if she gets found out. That’s what we unravel in the first couple episodes of next season, as well as what happens in the trial. TVLINE | The world of Speckulate has given the show so much rich, timely story. Can Mariana really leave that job? That’s what’s really tough: Can she? She does the right thing by sticking with her “fight club” girls and publishing the men’s salaries to make a point that they’re getting paid more than women for the same work, but now she’s put herself in some jeopardy. Evan wants her to stay, but now she has these questions about whether Evan’s intentions toward her are professional, or if they’re personal, and how awkward that might be. And also, what happened with this former employee Amanda? That’s a mystery that we’ll also explore next season. TVLINE | I really loved that Alice’s parents knew and were just waiting for her to come to them. How is that revelation going to change how she feels about her sexuality and her relationship with Joey? I think it’s really interesting, because sometimes you think that when you come out to your parents, and if they accept you, that you’re suddenly going to be comfortable in your own skin and with your sexuality and with being out. What you don’t realize is that you have your own internalized homophobia, not just based on what you think your parents were going to say, but also just being in the world and how difficult it is to be different in the world or to be your authentic self in a world that does not always unanimously applaud that or accept that. She’s going to be dealing with that, as well as the fact that there are certain stipulations her parents might place on her being out. Sometimes your parents are like, “That’s great. We accept that you’re gay. Just don’t tell anyone.” Or, “We accept that you’re gay, but don’t act gay.” Or, “We accept that you’re gay, but don’t be one of those pushy gay people, wanting your rights and everything.” She’s also going to deal with that. Good Trouble fans, what did you think of the season ender? Grade it via the poll below, and stay tuned to TVLine for even more Season 2 scoop!<doc-sep>After “The Fosters” ended, fans got to see more of Callie (Maia Mitchell) and Mariana (Cierra Ramirez) with Freeform’s spinoff series, “Good Trouble.” With the Season 1 finale ending tonight, will that be the end of their story? Of course not. These characters don’t give up that easily, and neither does their show. Freeform President Tom Ascheim surprised the “Good Trouble” cast with the Season 2 renewal news at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in February. And, two months later, the first season of the series is coming to an end with, per usual, a dramatic finale. Photo: Freeform/Richard Cartwright “Jamal’s [Spence Moore II] trial begins, along with the Black Lives Matter protest Malika [Zuri Adele] has organized, leaving Callie in a difficult position knowing she has information that could help Jamal's lawyers,” the synopsis reveals. “Mariana gets some new information about the salaries at Spekulate from an unlikely ally, forcing her to make a decision about whether or not to release the spreadsheet outlining the pay gap. Meanwhile, Sumi’s [Kara Wang] wedding day is here, and it's time for Alice [Sherry Cola] to face her emotions head-on.” Lucky for fans, the wait between Seasons 1 and 2 won’t even be that long. Freeform announced at its Second Annual Summit last month that the show will come back in just a couple of months on June 18 at 8 p.m. EDT., and its digital aftershow, “The Trouble With,” will be returning right along with it. In the meantime, catch the Season 1 finale of “Good Trouble” tonight on Freeform at 8 p.m. EDT.<doc-sep>
The Fosters held audiences rapt with its dramatizations of real-life issues, and its spinoff Good Trouble has passed on that torch of showing really, really good-looking people go through some really, really bad things. Callie and Mariana started green in downtown Los Angeles, and though they still don't know much about anything, they've learned a lot more than they ever thought. Luckily, Good Trouble Season 2 will continue the learning — and fans don't even have to wait that long in order to find it. In honor (probably) of Good Trouble's Season 1 finale, Freeform announced that Good Trouble had indeed been picked up for Season 2. The better news is that Good Trouble Season 2 will premiere on June 18, 2019, meaning that fans of Callie, Mariana, and the rest of the gang at the Coterie only have to wait a little more than two months in order to get their fix — and possibly some answers as to what's really going to happen at Coterie. Right now, we're worried about Dennis. We're hoping that Davia dumps her married boyfriend (at least, I am). We're waiting for Callie to choose between Jamie and Gael while navigating a major career setback, and Mariana is on the precipice of trying to change things at Speckulate. There's so much to go through — here's what Season 2 of Good Trouble needs to address when it comes back in June. Callie Navigating Men & Career Gael? Or Jamie? Jamie? Or Gael? Or neither? Or both? Callie has to decide whether she wants to pursue the hot artist that makes her head all dizzy or the hot lawyer that makes my head all dizzy (hi, Jamie.) Both men are right for her in different ways, but they're very different men. Callie could also opt to date neither man exclusively, or perhaps no one at all — she has a big job to figure out in clerking for Judge Wilson, and Callie doesn't need the distraction. Dennis' Fate & Davia's Reaction The devastating penultimate episode of Good Trouble ended with Dennis' potential suicide and Davia, whom has grown to love Dennis, in a full-tilt panic. Whether Dennis lives or dies, Good Trouble should explore their relationship more — they definitely care for each other more than each lets on, and there could be something there. If anything, Davia needs to get rid of her married boyfriend. That dude is a scumbag. Mariana Sacrificing Herself For The Greater Good Mariana and her fellow female engineers at Speckulate are so close to revealing the pay disparities at the company, and as we all know, it may come at a price that's pretty high — Mariana could lose her job. Will she go forth, knowing that it will benefit the greater good and hurt her own chances? Or will she stay selfish and try to plug away from the inside? It's a hard decision either way. Alice Figuring Out Her Relationship Baggage Alice loves Sumi, and Sumi loves playing with Alice's heart, even though she's about to be married to another woman. For the sake of her future self, Alice needs to see that Sumi is bad for her. She may even need a therapist to help her come to terms with her feelings about coming out to her parents and the way she still lets Sumi affect her. Either way, Alice will never be happy if she lets Sumi have control, and the sooner she finds this out, the better. Malika Having Some Fun Malika has had a tough season — there's a huge police brutality trial she's involved in, issues with her mother, and some definitive trust issues with her new man, Isaac. Can we just let Malika enjoy something? Somewhere? Please? She's a wonderful character, and more development — a little more joy — would do her good. Season 2 of Good Trouble will certainly be a bumpy ride — luckily, fans don't have to wait too long to buckle their seatbelts.