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Judy Greer Explains How ‘Last Thing He Told Me’ Season 2 Differs From Book

On February 20, The Last Thing He Told Me returns on Apple TV with its second season, featuring Judy Greer joining the cast and Jennifer Garner returning.
With only a partial draft to guide them, showrunners expanded the story into an original second world, deviating from Laura Dave's sequel, The First Time I Saw Him, because they used about 100 pages as a roadmap.
Jennifer Garner pushed for Judy Greer's casting, with co-creator Josh Singer describing her role as the 'birth of a super villain' and the production reuniting members of 13 Going on 30, including Susie DeSanto and Cindy Williams.
Although elements shift between the series and Laura Dave's novels, Garner's role helps maintain continuity as fans and viewers see the show and book as different enough that one won't substitute for the other.
As the book appeared in January, filming and writing overlapped, producing divergent creative paths and surprises; Laura Dave's sequel was published on January 6, and cast and creators were often on separate tracks, Greer said.

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Judy Greer Explains How ‘Last Thing He Told Me’ Season 2 Differs From Book

While the season 1 plot of The Last Thing He Told Me largely mirrored Laura Dave’s novel of the same name, season 2 will deviate slightly from the sequel. “It’s so interesting because we were filming the show at the same time that the book was being written. So we only just read the book as it came out,” Angourie Rice exclusively told Us Weekly during a joint interview with Judy Greer earlier this month, who noted, “Yeah, I read it last weekend.…

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