The Fox drama addressed Smollett’s departure with one blink-and-you-miss-it conversation
’s sixth and final season.
As for how they did it? It all took place in one blink-and-you-miss-it conversation—a strategy that’s more than one might think for writing off major characters. In the scene, Cookie Lyon tells Jamal’s friend Becky Williams that Jamal “ran off to London.”“Please don’t get me started,” Cookie says. “I miss him so much.” And...that’s it!
Of all the write-offs in Hollywood history, the intrigue surrounding the circumstances that prompted this one do make it stand out. Reasons surrounding TV write-offs have varied widely in the history of the genre: Recent entries to the list have run the gamut from
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