Trying Season 4's Rafe Spall & Esther Smith Look Ahead to Season 5 After That Cliffhanger Finale
After four incredibly heartfelt and wholesome seasons, Apple TV+’s best show Trying just delivered its first major cliffhanger — and it’s a big one! The Andy Wolton-created series led by Esther Smith and Rafe Spall made some bold changes for Season 4 through an aptly crafted time jump that found its main characters, Nikki and Jason fielding questions about their children’s birth mother, Kat (Charlotte Riley). But while the last few episodes have been an emotional rollercoaster and continue to affirm the series’ strength through its charming leads, the Season 4 finale, “Scott of the Atlantic” dropped one of the show’s most shocking moments when Princess (Scarlett Rayner) and Tyler’s (Cooper Turner) mom finally show up at their home. It’s a scene Spall and Smith tell Collider will “give lots of people a kick.”
“It would make for the perfect Season 5 beginning,” Spall said in an exclusive sitdown with Collider alongside his co-star and real-life partner, Smith. “I know the audience loves this family too and have rooted for them. You go, ‘Oh, my goodness. How is this gonna affect these people that we love so much?’”
Following Season 4’s seventh episode, “White Lies,” Nikki travels to Mallorca to get answers for her teenage daughter about Kat. But she soon faces the moral dilemma of whether to tell her children the real reason why their biological mother gave them up or keep it from them. Choosing the latter with her husband Jason as a way to protect their children, things seemingly blow up in their faces during the Season 4 finale when Kat shows up at their home wanting a second chance. It’s a moment that will no doubt have audiences stunned and at the edge of their seats but one that Smith says creates a “very present threat” to her character, Nikki.
