Imposters type TV Show Despite going into the season 2 finale of Bravo’s thrilling dramedy Imposters knowing it would also serve as the series finale (after the network canceled the show on June 1), no amount of brooding could stop the show from sweeping us along on a twisty, turny, and touching final episode. With the Bumblers having teamed up with Maddie (Inbar Lavi), Max (Brian Benben), and Sally (Katherine LaNasa) to take down the mastermind behind the all their criminal operations, the slimy and sinister Doctor (Ray Proscia), the stakes were high to out-con the conman or face the ultimate consequence — we all know the good doc isn’t shy about torture and murder! So if you just watched the last-ever (sob!) episode of Imposters and are feeling a little breathless, dizzy, and upset, we don’t blame you. Rather than see a doctor (who’d even trust one after watching this show? ), read what series creators Paul Adelstein and Adam Brooks had to say about pulling off cons within cons in the most entertaining and emotionally satisfying way possible. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So much goes on in that one episode — identity fraud, theft, fake murder, actual murder! — and it all just zips along. How difficult was it to plot all that out and make sure everything and everyone ended up where you wanted them to be? ADAM BROOKS: The finale was, in some ways, both the hardest and then the easiest episode to write. When we first start planning, there’s so much stuff going on, and you don’t want to sacrifice character for the plot, but you also have to make sure the plot works. When we were in the thick of it in the beginning, Paul and I just feel like we just want to blow our brains out, but then there’s the day when we go, “Oh! A then B, then this over here, then that there!’ and you’re like, “Ah, there it is!” That process takes a couple of weeks, and then we write it very quickly. PAUL ADELSTEIN: We try to be cognitive of making sure that everyone felt like they were accounted for emotionally and plot-wise, so that the audience and the characters were very clear about what was a stake, where they were going, and how their season had concluded. Also, because it’s a con show and because it’s structured to have a big con at the end, we know early what episode 10 is going to be — we just have to make sure everything is in place to get there. Once we have everything in place, we can just do the thing we talked about four months ago, hopefully. BROOKS: For me, part of the joy of writing it was knowing I’m directing episode 10, so there’s an immediacy to the whole thing in terms of having visualization in the script and knowing how it’s going to be executed. It’s a big episode, there’s a lot happening, and we were really pushing the boundaries of what we were capable of, money and production-wise, but we were very, very happy with how it turned out. Visually, I’m really happy with it. Imposters - Season 2 Credit: Christos Kalohoridis/Bravo Right! The Marilyns all coming up the stairs together looked amazing! BROOKS: Isn’t that crazy? Shooting that was so delirious. Having 20 Marilyns around for a week and a half… ADELSTEIN: We were always looking for Inbar. [Laughs] BROOKS: Besides being visually cool, it seemed metaphorically cool too, in terms of identity. Let’s talk about the ending: Did you always know going in that the Doctor was going to end up dead, Maddie was getting arrested, and Ezra (Rob Heaps) was planning to taking over the Doctor’s operation? Were those plot lines set in stone, or did you go back and forth? ADELSTEIN: The Ezra thing we kind of knew. We didn’t know how we were going to execute it, but we knew the idea that we wanted for the season ending. There was a question of who kills the Doctor and who would be most satisfying, and we decided that Sally seemed the most appropriate and most satisfying. We were clear about Maddie going to jail. We talked about her getting away, but we felt like she got away last time, and with everything she went through at the Harbor in terms of finding her authentic self and since the theme of season was consequences, she had to turn and face it at this point. BROOKS: I think one of the things I was really happy about was how Inbar played that scene. We talked about it and she was going in the same direction I was. There’s a little smile on her face, as if to say, “You still don’t get it. No one ever stops me.” And then there’s also a sense of release. ADELSTEIN: We read about people that run and run and run and run, and when they’re finally caught there’s actually a kind of release. BROOKS: Yeah, sort of like when you get canceled! [Laughs] I think that she was really able to get all those things down in a good way. We weren’t imagining it as the last episode [of the series], but I think it can be satisfying the way it is. Anything is possible in terms of going forward with her. We know she can get herself out of jams, so is she going to be in jail for one day or one year? How is that going to work? The idea of how she extricates herself from that, in a way that’s consistent with the story and with the characters, would’ve been really fun to get into. ADELSTEIN: There’s also the catch-me-if-you-can idea too. The FBI needs her more than she needs them at this point. The Doctor is dead; they can arrest her and charge her for her various crimes, but the person that they’re really after is done. Now her particular expertise and her knowledge of all these different cons and people across the country is still something the FBI is interested in.<doc-sep>The Bumblers fight for their freedom in tonight’s Season 2 finale of “Imposters.” According to the synopsis for Season 2, episode 10 of the Bravo series, Ezra (Rob Heaps), Richard (Parker Young) and Jules (Marianne Rendón), together with Maddie (Inbar Lavi), Max (Brian Benben), Sally (Katherine LaNasa), and Sofia (Laura Archbold), try to stay one step ahead of the Doctor (Ray Proscia) in an attempt to break free from his control. But before they enact their detailed plan to bring down the Doctor, Ezra confesses to his fellow Bumblers that he has broken their code. “I have a confession to make. It’s been driving me crazy,” Ezra says. “I broke the code in the worst way. I slept with her. I slept with Maddie.” But instead of getting mad, Jules laughs hard upon hearing the news, revealing that she and Richard actually made a bet about it. “I’m a hundred dollars not mad,” says Jules who won the bet. Since Ezra knows that Jules and Richard haven’t totally moved on from Maddie yet, the Indianapolis native appreciates that they understand what happened between him and Maddie. “So how was the sex?” Richard asks, much to Ezra’s shock. “It’s the least you can do,” Jules says. “How was it?” “It must have been weird,” Richard adds. “It’s a lot of people in bed together.” “Yeah old cutie pie shoe salesman Ezra, hard and con artist Ezra, Ava, Saffron, Maddie,” Jules says. “That’s a lot of people having sex,” Richard teases. The conversation between the three only comes to an end when Max enters the room and tells them to get ready for their final con. “Let’s get going. It’s showtime,” Max says. Since the Season 2 finale was filmed long before Bravo canceled the series last week, executive producer Paul Adelstein told TVLine that the finale won’t wrap up all the show’s storylines. “It’s not [like] we were imagining this being the [series] finale,” Adelstein’s fellow executive producer Adam Brooks said. “But when we looked at it that way, we [were] really happy that it doesn’t end on a certain kind of cliffhanger. That would be very frustrating for the audience. What happens in this finale with the Doctor, it does feel like the end of a certain part of our story. There is a certain kind of closure in all of that. And what’s left open, I think, can leave a lot to your imagination.” “We hope that makes people want more,” Brooks continued. “We hope that maybe one day, who knows, we’ll get to do more. It works better than we might have thought, given that we weren’t planning for it.” “Imposters” Season 2 finale, titled “See You Soon, Macaroon”, airs tonight at 10 p.m. EDT on Bravo.<doc-sep>Bravo has opted not to renew Imposters for a third season. The Season 2 finale, which airs Thursday, June 7, will be the series’ last episode. Primetime-Panic Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders See All Imposters is one of two original scripted series currently on Bravo, along with Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, which is headed into its fifth and final season this month. The cable network has high-profile anthology series Dirty John coming up, toplined by Connie Britton and Eric Bana. Imposters is a dark comedy that followed Maddie (Inbar Lavi), a grifter who leaves her unwitting victims tormented when they realize they have been used and robbed of everything, including their hearts. But the dynamic changes when her three latest targets — Ezra (Rob Heaps), Richard (Parker Young) and Jules (Marianne Rendón) — team up to track her down. Stephen Bishop and Brian Benben co-starred, while Uma Thurman had a recurring role on the show. Bravo Media Imposters got off to a solid start in spring 2017. Its freshman season averaged more than 1.4 million total viewers per episode, garnering what Bravo called the fastest in-season growth of any new scripted series on ad-supported cable with a 23% increase in adults 18-49 from the first half of the season to the second. While ratings in Season 2 have been stable, they are down sharply from last season. Imposters was produced by Universal Cable Productions with Adam Brooks and Paul Adelstein serving as executive producers.<doc-sep>Warning: The following contains spoilers for Thursday’s Imposters finale. Imposters fans, how badly do you want another season after that ending? The recently cancelled Bravo drama wrapped up its run on Thursday with a tantalizing twist: After the group defeated the Doctor, Ezra answered one of the boss’ phones and pretended to be the doc. As for how we got to that final scene: Sally was actually the one who killed the Doctor, while Maddie played decoy. Both women then took off — but Maddie was intercepted by Patrick, who arrested her for the murder. Elsewhere, the Bumblers agreed to meet up in six months before going their separate ways. Below, creators Paul Adelstein and Adam Brooks reveal whether Ezra’s gone to the dark side and if fixer Shelly Cohen — who got knocked out by Jules — is still alive. They also discuss what they had planned for a third season. (For the latest on whether the series will be shopped to another outlet, click here.) TVLINE | The Doctor is dead, but his operation seemingly lives on in Ezra now. What does it mean for Ezra to take on that persona? ADAM BROOKS | From the beginning of the show, we often described him as a puppy dog… and he turns into a man. And that would have many different implications, one of which is that the con itself was something that was very seductive for him. As Maddie says, “You got the adventure you always wanted.” And then about a year ago, as we were starting to think about Season 2, we had this image of him as a kind of Michael Corleone, sitting into the Doctor’s chair, in the way that Al Pacino sits into the chair of his father at the end of The Godfather. So we were always playing with that notion of: What if the seduction of that was strong, especially after all of the things that he’s gone through — the loss of his father, his guilt, his increasing distance from his former life? It’s a really interesting twist. Of course, it would’ve been really fun to investigate what happens with all of that, and how deep it goes. But the idea that he was moving toward the con as Maddie tried to have a normal life was always at the center of the show, and at the center of their tension as rivals and lovers. Popular on TVLine TVLINE | There isn’t that same darkness in him that there was in the Doctor. What kind of a leader as the Doctor would he have been? Did you give that any thought? PAUL ADELSTEIN | We did, only a little, because we thought, “Well, how deep is he going to go into this?” There were various ways to go: He could abandon them immediately. He could find it disgusting. He could try to do it, and do it right. He could make it a Robin Hood thing. Or he could go totally to the dark side. We have all that written down on a piece of paper somewhere, but we certainly didn’t make any of those decisions yet. BROOKS | But I don’t think it’s like, two days later, he’s the Doctor, [ordering] Shelly Cohen to, like, mutilate somebody. It’s not who he is, so that’s not what it would be. He’s more curious than he is settled in anything yet. He’s not done with this life, with the idea of being unmoored and living this kind of life. It’s sort of like Max’s character, [who is] in love with the life, the job, the con. He accepts the downsides of it because he feels alive doing it. And that’s what’s happening to Ezra. So I think he’s going to investigate if there’s a version of himself that can do that. I’m sure he’ll find out it’s much more complicated than he thinks. TVLINE | Has Ezra shaken Maddie? ADELSTEIN | I don’t know if any of them will ever shake Maddie, or if Maddie will ever shake them. But certainly, he was ready to move forward with Sophia. Of course, we had some complications planned for that relationship, as well. BROOKS | Whenever Maddie and Ezra are in a room together, neither one of them is safe from what might happen. And that won’t change. She, too, is not completely in control of herself when he’s nearby. TVLINE | Everyone gets away fairly unscathed except for Maddie, who’s arrested. Why did you decide to give her the one potentially sad ending? ADELSTEIN | I don’t know if she seems sad. There’s a sense of relief that she has. Her goal was accomplished, which was to free herself from the Doctor. One of our themes for Season 2 was consequences, and Maddie and the Doctor, obviously, have to pay the heaviest consequence. It seemed appropriate that after she comes to terms with herself a little bit at the Harbor, and then she moves forward into the world to try to make things right by eliminating the Doctor, that she has to face the music. It felt right to us. TVLINE | Is Shelly Cohen still alive? ADELSTEIN | Yes, he just has a bad headache. [Laughs] TVLINE | With the Doctor out of the picture, would Shelly Cohen have become the primary antagonist? ADELSTEIN | We never decided that. We certainly always relished the idea of getting Shelly and Lenny together to see what those two would be like in a room together. But Shelly and Lenny exist to do other people’s bidding. They’re not really interested in calling the shots. They just want to go out and be the sword of justice. BROOKS | They’re a very fun potential wrinkle in anything that would’ve happened in Season 3. Paul’s always said, they’re a little bit sort of magic. They’re like from another universe a bit, and whenever they land on Imposters planet, it wakes and shakes the whole thing up in a great way. TVLINE | Did Sophia keep Sally’s secret that Sally killed the Doctor, and that it wasn’t Maddie?<doc-sep>
We can’t believe we’re saying this… ‘Imposters’ will come to an end, for good, on June 7. Ahead of the season 2 finale, Rob Heaps (Ezra) teases what you can expect and says this is his ‘favorite’ episode yet! Here’s why… After two seasons of thrills, chills and cunning cons, the Bumblers will say goodbye to the small screen. Imposters will end after its season 2 finale, which airs tonight, June 7 at 10 PM ET on Bravo. While we’re deeply sad about one of our favorite show’s coming to a close, the craziness isn’t over yet! Rob Heaps (aka Ezra) previews tonight’s finale EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife.com! Check out our full interview below! What can you tell us about the finale? — Will questions be answered? How does this finale differ from season 1? — I think it might be my favorite Imposters episode. It has everything that makes our show special and then takes it even further. When the network saw the first cut of the finale, they told Adam Brooks and Paul Adelstein that they had made a 42.5 minute movie and having seen it myself, that really is true. It has an emotional payoff and darkness that goes much deeper than last season’s finale (as classy as that was), and as far as the cinematography is concerned there are moments that will take your breath away. I would also say that this finale is more conclusive than last season’s – I don’t think too many questions will be left unanswered. Fans of the show should be very, very excited. Sadly, we’ve learned the series is coming to an end. Will the finale give fans the closure they need to see this series end? We are all devastated about the news that Bravo isn’t renewing the show. We only heard a few days ago so it’s still pretty raw. We’re still hoping that Netflix will pick us up for season 3 (if you want to see this happen please get on social media and say so and tag @netfix!). Most of all we feel for our amazing fans who have grown to love these characters so much – they really deserve to see these stories continue for at least another season. That said, Paul Adelstein put it very well when he said on Twitter that while this episode wasn’t intended as a series finale, it will definitely serve to keep Maddie, Ezra, Richard and Jules alive in your imaginations for a good while to come. I will say that all the main questions will be answered – but some very exciting new ones will be asked. There will be endings and beginnings… This season, all of the characters in their own way found themselves, they really came into their own (Hypothetically) if the series were to go on, where would you want to see it go? This is very hard to answer without giving away spoilers for tonight! I think first off I’d like to see a time gap – season 2 started just a few hours after the end of season 1, but for reasons that will become clearer tonight I think it would be interesting to pick up perhaps a few months later and see where each of the characters have got to in their lives. Speaking for Ezra…a very interesting door will open up for him tonight, and I would love to see how far down that road he could go. I know you can’t give anything away, but, what do you think of Sally’s motive(s) going into the finale? Max has turned on her once, so it’s a huge question. I wish I could but that’s far too juicy to give away! You’ll have to watch and find out. I will say that all is not as it seems, and there are a few people with plans of their own… Also, fans need to know… Ezra and Maddie, they’re so in love. If the show were to go on, do you think they’d be together? I’m going to be controversial here and say that I never saw the Ezra/Maddie story as about love. I think Ezra was obsessed with finding the woman behind Ava, and in the process became obsessed with Maddie – but not in a romantic way.