ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Why did you decide to tell a story about miscarriage?
Some more directly than others.
And this couple of Kate and Toby felt like they could handle it and they could get through it.

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It just felt like the right place to take the story.
Was the story of Kates pregnancy designed to be a miscarriage from the very start?
What was Chrissys reaction when you first told her?BERGER:[Laughs.]
It felt unnecessarily cruel to do that to the audience and to the character.
Based on that, theyre both completely right, and theres a lot of emotion.
At the same time, his imagined future has also been totally destroyed and hes crushed, too.
The goal is never to be unrelentingly dark and tragic.
Obviously, every relationship has progress and regression to old habits.
[Laughs.]…
Later in the episode, Kate feels like she failed Toby.
Both Kate and Kevin are in need of comfort/help right now.
And for a duo that weve shown is almost magically connected in certain twin ways, theyve been absent.
They havent been there for each other.
You saw the sexual assault allegation that surfaced about Sylvester Stallone [which he denied].
I know youve said that you would have him back anytime, though it was a one-off guest spot.
In the present, we last saw Randall with Kevin at his door.
Number Three is the fall finale as well.
We need a word for that.
To read what Chrissy Metz had to say about Kates miscarriage, clickhere.
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