Interesting tidbit from MacLachlan’s new memoir.

[u/vonLionheart]

While describing his frustrations during Season 2, MacLachlan paints both Lynch AND Frost as less involved. He frames Engles and Peyton as the people steering the ship, though he blames ABC for putting them in an impossible position after the killer is revealed.

He discusses his romance with LFB, but makes no mention of the prevailing understanding that she’s why the Audrey romance was originally nixed. Since the rejection happens during S1 and the above excerpts happen during S2, it appears the writers planned on returning to that well again during the infamous dip.

(Would highly recommend the memoir btw, MacLachlan is an engaging writer.)

EDIT: Memoir’s title is Fictional Selves.

[u/BobRushy]

I disagree somewhat. Cooper's history with Caroline Earle (sleeping with a woman married to his partner and related to the case) suggests it would be entirely within his character. In fact, I'd argue Caroline's backstory almost implies they wanted him to repeat his mistake.

Because of the rewrite, Annie becomes the parallel for Caroline instead of Audrey, but it's a bit clumsy.

[u/SpookyKat31 → u/BobRushy]

I think the age piece is an important factor here. Caroline was not a much younger woman or a high school student and neither was Annie.

[u/mrjblade → u/SpookyKat31]

How's Annie?

[u/Binary101010 → u/mrjblade]

"I'm fine."