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A Million Little Things creator talks emotional mid-season finale

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A MILLION LITTLE THINGS -"coming home" - When Delilah goes into labor, Eddie feels compelled to tell Katherine the truth about being the baby's father. Meanwhile, Gary and Maggie struggle with living together post-cancer, and Rome and Regina continue to be at odds about having a baby of their own, on the season premiere of "A Million Little Things," airing THURSDAY, SEPT. 26 (9:01-10:01 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (ABC/David Bukach)ROMANY MALCO, CHANCE HURSTFIELD
A MILLION LITTLE THINGS -"coming home" - When Delilah goes into labor, Eddie feels compelled to tell Katherine the truth about being the baby's father. Meanwhile, Gary and Maggie struggle with living together post-cancer, and Rome and Regina continue to be at odds about having a baby of their own, on the season premiere of "A Million Little Things," airing THURSDAY, SEPT. 26 (9:01-10:01 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (ABC/David Bukach)ROMANY MALCO, CHANCE HURSTFIELD /
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A Million Little Things unpacks an emotional midseason finale, and creator DJ Nash tells us all about it!

A Million Little Things aired one hell of a midseason finale this week, and to say it was emotional is an understatement. There was simply so much to process, wasn’t there? At the core of the episode, however, was the question of P.J.’s paternity. The midseason finale revealed the question of who his father is was quite the mess.

At first, and for most of the season, we’ve assumed he is Jon’s son. Then Rome and Regina sent in the DNA test which came back 99.99999% positive, so again, we assumed he was most definitely Jon’s son. However, the test results were inaccurate because it wasn’t Jon’s DNA that was tested, it was Dave’s, Jon’s late best friend.

The hair that P.J. took from the sweater he believed to be Jon’s wasn’t actually Jon’s, it belongs to Dave. Jon just took it after Dave passed away as a memory of him. For anyone, this would be quite a difficult thing to go through. P.J. had basically convinced himself and accepted that Jon was his father and that he was now a part of the Dixon family.

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A Million Little Things creator DJ Nash spoke to Deadline about what all this will mean for the group and what we can expect in the back half of the season. The paternity aspect of it is an intriguing one for both P.J. as well as Delilah and Eddie’s daughter, Charlie. While P.J. did a DNA test, Eddie never did so it leaves us with some open-ended questions.

"It depends on who you ask. If you ask the A Million Little Things fan group, no, everyone thinks that a vasectomy doesn’t stick,  there’s a hundred different A Million Little theories, but for me, as the person who’s past right now with telling the story with the writers, yes. PJ is Dave’s son and Charlie is Eddie’s daughter. Jon did have a vasectomy. I’m happy to put those to rest."

Okay, Nash, we see you. Looks like we’ll just have to accept that is the truth…for now.

I think we have more or less accepted the P.J. aspect of the paternity fallouts, but there is still a lot to unpack with the Delilah/Eddie/Catherine storyline. As we saw, Delilah’s kids did not take the news of her affair and Charlie’s real father lightly. It led Sophie right to Eddie’s house as she proceeded to break all his guitars.

What will this story be like in season 2b? Nash explains.

"Since the pilot, we have been wondering, would Delilah tell the kids. […] …it is having a very adverse effect on those kids. Now the three of them are going to have to do a major cleanup to what’s going on in their family."

Honestly, my heart went out to young Theo the most. He should not have found out that way, that is if he understood what was going on.

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So, how will this impact the kids moving forward? I’m afraid it’s a rough road ahead for everyone involved.

"Certainly, it affects the kids the most because the other people in the group already knew, but for Sophie and Delilah, I think the moment she smashes that guitar is the moment she went from being an innocent little girl to being a young woman who is now faced with the realities of life."

I’m curious to see how the kids’ relationships will change with the rest of the group. It’s painful enough to hear the truth from your family. But how would one feel if they found out others knew and never said anything to them? I have a feeling it’s going to get very, very dramatic in the second half of the season, so we ought to brace ourselves.

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We’ll have to wait until January to find out what is going to happen, but for now, Eddie is officially on Charlie’s birth certificate. Here’s to hoping they can find a way to become one big happy family.

What did you think about the paternity fallouts from A Million Things‘ midseason finale? 

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