‘Mrs. Fletcher’ Ending Explained: Creator Tom Perrotta Spills What Happens Next

The series finale of Mrs. Fletcher brought all the major characters together in quite a scandalous way. Flirtatious were consummated, breakdowns were reached, and Mrs. Fletcher legally changed her last name back to her maiden name, Mackie. Mrs. Fletcher is no more! It’s only Eve Mackie, now!

But what happens after the shocking ending of Mrs. Fletcher? Lets dig into it.

MRS. FLETCHER SPOILERS AHEAD!

After weeks of simmering flirtation, Eve (Kathryn Hahn) finally hooks up with her writing class colleague Julian (Owen Teague). She also hooks up with her coworker Amanda (Katie Kershaw), whom she also had the kiss in the hot tub with. In fact, the three of them engage in a decadent three-way, fueled by alcohol, marijuana, and the ecstasy of intimacy. The one problem? They were doing this just as Eve’s son Brendan (Jackson White) returned home from college, humbled by his failures there. Brendan walks in on his mother having a threesome, spazzes out, and awkwardly sits on the front stoop as Julian and Amanda let themselves out. The series ends with Eve sitting next to him, unsure of what to say.

So what happened next? Did Eve and Brendan have a massive fight about what went on? Where are the characters of Mrs. Fletcher going next? Only the show’s creator (and author of its source material), Tom Perrotta can say.

“My sense is that they wouldn’t have some big blow out conversation about what just happened. Knowing them, they would live together and it would come out in strange ways and strange moments because it’s like too much…” Perrotta told Decider with a laugh. “What can you say, really?”

Perrotta also explained that even if the ending seemed abrupt to you, to him, it’s “a really nice place to end.”

“If you think of the arc as Brendan’s first semester: in the first [episode] he leaves and in the final one he returns, but that’s just a little slice of their lives,” Perrotta said. “Obviously there’s more beyond that.”

Mrs. Fletcher was planned as a limited series for HBO, so Perrotta and his writers only planned to follow these characters for this one contained season. However, HBO has definitely made a limited series a full-blown show before. (See: Big Little Lies.) Could Mrs. Fletcher come back for a second season — with more self-spanking scenes?

“You know, certainly they’re not dead,” Perrotta said. “There’s definitely more [story] to be told if we wanted to do that.”

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