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The Ratliff family's storyline has been complete chaos on season 3 but ended with Timothy Ratliff finally accepting his financial ruin ( an attempted murder-suicide and accidental almost-death) as his kids check their phones for the very first time post-vacation. The viewer doesn't get to see Lochlan, Saxon, Piper, or Victoria react to the news, but!! Creator Mike White vaguely teased what happens to the family—and specifically Victoria—post-show. “It’s a bittersweet ending,” he said.
“Life goes on past this personal valley, but what’s going to happen without their comforts? I don’t think Victoria is someone who can live in poverty. I’m sure she can come up with some other solution.” He added that Victoria “has a superiority complex and it has extended to her kids and it’s turned it into a little bit of a cult where they’re all kind of incestuous, that nobody’s good enough and so they’re all kind of looking inward.
” Meanwhile, Patrick Schwarzenegger told that Mike wanted there to be ambiguity when the family turned their phones back on: "When we power our phones on, is that when we know everything about our dad? Mike likes ambiguity," he explained. "He wants people to have these conversations. He shot two-and-a-half hours for the finale and boiled it down to 90 minutes.
That’s already a stretch for HBO to give. It was always scripted how it aired. Mike did say he wanted it to be me who looks to my dad after my phone comes on — because they work together and there are more consequences for Saxon.
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