‘It Is About Family & Finding The Fun In Aging’: Writer & Producer Sam Strauss On Showtime’s ‘The End’

(CBS Local)– Have you ever thought astir the extremity of your life? Writer and shaper Sam Strauss has thought a batch astir this and her caller Showtime acheronian drama called “The End” explores however 3 generations of a household are trying to fig however to unrecorded with meaning, dice with dignity and the quality that occurs successful between.

This is simply a large infinitesimal for the Australian writer Strauss who besides got the accidental to enactment connected Hulu’s caller bid coming retired successful August called “Nine Perfect Strangers” with Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy and Michael Shannon. CBS Local’s DJ Sixsmith precocious chatted with Strauss astir “The End,” however a task she wrote astatine 19 years agone turned into this bid and what it was similar to enactment with Harriet Walker.

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“We are truly arrogant to person taken an Australian communicative to America,” said Strauss. “That’s a spot of a imagination and it is coming astatine an absorbing clip due to the fact that a batch of the amusement is astir decease and however we look aft our loved ones arsenic they die. A batch of Americans person conscionable experienced that. I deliberation our bid has a truly hopeful bosom underneath it and it is truly each astir household and uncovering the amusive successful aging. I anticipation it find an assemblage and radical who emotion it arsenic overmuch arsenic we do.”

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The archetypal 4 episodes of the bid are already disposable connected the Showtime app. While aging and the extremity of beingness are not needfully topics that radical emotion to speech about, Strauss’ amusement uses acheronian wit to get into these conversations betwixt household members successful a truly absorbing way.

“I wrote this bid due to the fact that I was inspired by a idiosyncratic communicative of a grandma who had a benignant of flowering astatine the extremity of her life,” said Strauss. “She had lone ever been a wife, oregon a daughter, oregon a mother. She had ne'er been azygous and erstwhile she was azygous successful her 80’s aft her hubby had died, she had this caller lease connected life. It truly inspired maine due to the fact that you tin marque each these mistakes and possibly if you get it close astatine the end, you tin find a mode to person immoderate fun, marque immoderate caller friends and observe who you are. astatine your deepest core. To me, that is simply a beingness worthy lived. That was what was truly important to me, to ever person that optimistic heart. We wanted to amusement the assisted dying statement from each the antithetic angles.”

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Watch “The End” connected Showtime and watercourse anytime connected the Showtime app.