Will We See Alexander Again on Madam Secretary

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the series finale of Madam Secretary, "Leaving the Station."]

What meliorate manner for Madam Secretary to go out than for President Elizabeth McCord (Téa Leoni) to continue to fight for what's correct, with her always-supportive husband, Henry (Tim Daly) by her side, the return of several familiar faces, special invitee stars, and a White House nuptials?

"Information technology was really important to piece of work [family moments] into the story because ane of the mission statements for the show has always been to prove people in these important positions and positions of service every bit being people who have lives similar our own, who take universal stories, and it was actually nice to take all the space to let those stories play out," executive producer Barbara Hall told Television receiver Insider.

And as for what comes next? Yes, "Blake and Trevor will eventually get married after the longest engagement in history, Daisy goes to Hollywood and she and Matt probably end up together because they started that mode," she revealed. "And and so of course there will be grandchildren and yes, I think [Elizabeth and Henry] are already naming them."

Here, Hall discusses saying goodbye to the CBS drama.

Thank you for the McCords and one of the best, most supportive relationships perhaps ever on TV.

Barbara Hall: You're welcome. That was the goal.

What take you enjoyed the most about Elizabeth and Henry over the years and especially in this final season?

In particular, it is exactly what you described: the challenge of showing a healthy, functional human relationship, which doesn't mean it's without its problems, simply it shows conflict resolution and all of those things and keeping romance alive in the relationship and only being able to go into depth with how that works.

(Mark Schafer/CBS)

This season was particularly fun because nosotros got to explore the part of the First Gentleman and what his function would be in and around the White Business firm. And we also get to see how that affected their relationship, which really was a depiction of how important information technology had been up to this point that they had built a solid foundation because there was a lot of stress going into the White House.

You merely had 10 episodes with Elizabeth equally president, but you lot managed to pack in a lot. What did you set out to practise once you knew you just had a limited time to explore that? Did that have any influence on how yous put her through the wringer?

It did, because we knew nosotros had x episodes and we wanted to create one long arc instead of doing several episodes with different problems for her to solve. We just wanted to create a long narrative to tell about the first female president.

The main thing I wanted to do was to show the obstacles and challenges that might face the offset female president, and then we merely took it to the most dramatic conclusion, which is if people were uncomfortable enough with her in that role, she might face up a challenge similar existence impeached.

The residue of the time we wanted a lot of real estate to use for personal stories and develop personal relationships and see how those played out.

As you mentioned, Henry became the First Gentleman, and we saw the role he played in the White House and conversations like the one with Senator Ross in the finale.

It was one of the biggest challenges trying to decide what that would look like and to give him a office that was important and that could simply be done by the First Admirer. We had fun showing him going around town with the K-popular star, the married woman of the Korean president, and showing him using his expertise though to help work out trade issues.

And so when we had the confrontation with Senator Amy Ross, he has a breadth of knowledge on the subject. Information technology was very interesting to hear this give-and-take argued from his betoken of view, from the husband of the first female president.

(Sarah Shatz/CBS)

Stevie had quite the journeying in these six seasons, both professionally and personally. Can you talk well-nigh how you decided to bring that all together not just with her back with Dmitri only also wanting to utilise the wedding guest list politically?

We wanted her to end upward with Dmitri. Nosotros like that human relationship and I feel similar the audience really likes information technology, too. We started out with the goal to get them together. We thought information technology would exist fun to have a White House wedding ceremony, merely we thought it was inconsistent with the character to desire [i], so nosotros decided to create this effect around a really ambitious piece of legislation which would take a personal affect on Stevie and would make sense that she would want to go alee and open up her wedding to help move that procedure forth.

The staff around Elizabeth changed quite a bit, except for Blake, of grade, and he, Mike B, and Russell provided so much amusement. What did you know you wanted to do with the characters in the White House with her? Did you lot achieve everything y'all wanted in that regard?

We did, especially in that we got to have a lot of people dorsum. I wanted the White House staff to look slightly dissimilar because information technology's a dissimilar chore, and I always felt that Mike B., who would've been her campaign director, therefore would've followed her into the White Business firm. So we found an organic way to bring Russell dorsum in.

We basically simply tried to discover the well-nigh important positions for her in terms of the characters who would serve the president especially in the direction we were going, impeachment. That was part of the thinking. Then in the end, we were glad to exist able to bring nearly anybody back — some people had availability issues — to accept closure for the series.

Russell has been then dedicated and in such a fundamental role to the president all this time, kickoff with Conrad and then with Elizabeth, only it was satisfying to see him taking a step dorsum and information technology be his choice. Was your program to show the negative effects that this kind of life can have on a relationship with him and Carol?

I really wanted the last episode to have a lot of romance to it. The romance of Stevie getting married and the romance of Elizabeth and Henry and as well I just wanted to add this actress element to show the stress on marriages that can happen to people with lives of service, which is something I had wanted to explore since the beginning of the series, that these people are actually dedicated to a life of service, but information technology does take a toll on their personal lives. I but thought it would exist a slap-up way to complete Russell's arc, to have him choose his marriage. He has served and we got to see what he did for her and now it's time for him to choose his wife.

(Sarah Shatz/CBS)

You included quite a few fun moments with the wedding: the available political party, Blake singing, Mike B. telling his son to get them in the McCord family, that moment between Matt and Daisy, and the Thomas Aquinas joke during Henry'south toast. How much did the evidence and the characters demand those calorie-free-hearted and emotional moments after this heavy, concluding season and knowing it was as well going to be deplorable to say goodbye?

I wanted to create a lot of space this season for beauty and humour considering I feel like, like I said, we had a strong arc to hang the presidential narrative on, and then I wanted to requite the audience and ourselves as much as we could in terms of paying off things we'd set up up, fulfilling personal relationships, having plenty humour, giving them a beautiful scene with a White Business firm wedding, and so nosotros just went through and tried to brand certain we checked all the boxes of everything nosotros've ever wanted to do with the characters and that nosotros thought the audience might bask.

Were at that place any specific moments, guest stars, or returning cast members on your list of must-haves?

Nosotros knew at that place was going to be a mistake really that was made at the first and somebody would have to resign for information technology. That story went to Daisy in an organic mode that we idea was really satisfying for her, doing this thing in service of her dominate that was really heroic in a way simply besides was problematic. We wanted to give people heroic stories. We wanted to bring Matt back and talk about what his life was in Hollywood, considering it is parallel to a lot of people we know in politics who finish upwards going out to L.A. We wanted to tie up his relationship a little bit with Daisy. Nosotros thought it was fun to bring Jay dorsum into the White Business firm as Chief of Staff to conclude that story with Russell.

Then in the final episodes, we simply had such amazing invitee stars for the hearing with Wentworth Miller, Spencer Garrett, and Norbert Leo Butz. Nosotros were able to bring together these heavy hitters to tell that story. And of course what a treat to take a moment between Tyne and Tim. We tried to think of as many moments like that as possible.

(Mark Schafer/CBS)

Having the soccer players in on an upshot that is organic tracked for us. Then nosotros felt like we were able to exercise some really special casting with Cicely Tyson. Next yr is the actual centennial of the ratification of the 19th amendment, so even though we couldn't tell that story in our prove considering we're a few years ahead in the future, we wanted to give a shout-out to what was really happening.

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Source: https://www.tvinsider.com/838389/madam-secretary-series-finale-elizabeth-henry-stevie-wedding/

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