22. Even if you know how something is going to end, that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the ride. And Radnor was all in, even though he was told early on that he would eventually lose his mother.

“They had mentioned the mother twist to me in the first season, and I kind of put it out of my head,” he told Vulture after the 2014 finale. “I didn’t know if they would really come back and do that, especially after Cristin, because she was so wonderful and the fans seemed to really like her. So I asked them, ‘Are you still doing this?’ And they said yes.

Meanwhile, this storyline was gift-wrapped to Milioti at the cast and crew’s Christmas party. While chatting with Thomas, “He said, ‘Do you want to know how this ends?’” she told reporters at the 2014 Summer TCA press tour. “And as a complete joke, I said, ‘What, do I have to die?’ And he said, “Do you want to know?” and I said, “Yes, I do.” And he told me.

The news didn’t put her in a good mood.

“I sat there and sobbed,” she said. “He emailed me the next day and said, ‘I’m so sorry I told you that, you seemed really upset.’”