Warning: Spoilers for HBOs Insecure below.

The season finale of Insecure ran for the typical length of a half hour, but the episode was so filled with drama that it easily felt like 90 minutes. After beefing for most of the season, Issa (Issa Rae) and Molly (Yvonne Orji) were forced to come together to find their friend Tiffany (Amanda Seales), who has been struggling with postpartum depression. Andrew (Alexander Hodge) broke things off with Molly. Condola (Christina Elmore) told Lawrence (Jay Ellis) that she is pregnant with his child.

Whew.

Fans are ready to see how Issa handles herself next season is she ready to be a stepmom? Or will she pull Nathan (Kendrick Sampson) out of the friend zone? We talked with showrunner Prentice Penny about the climactic finale and whats next in store for Issa, Molly and the crew.

The season finale was the heaviest episode yet, so I want to talk about how we got here. What were you all thinking about in the writers room when making this episode come to life?

It sort of took various forms in various phases. The main thing we knew early on was that we wanted to get Issa and Molly to come back to the table. I mean that, almost literally. We wanted them to realize that these friendships and these relationships dont grow on trees. Theyre fragile. When you go through something in life, things kind of get put in perspective, of whats really important, like the importance of communication and being open and seeing each other.

So it just kind of took various forms, but we knew it was always about how do we get Issa and Molly to come back to the table without there being this sort of like heavy thing also, where they need to have a real talky reconciliation? Because there would be so much to talk about that we were just like, that doesnt feel as interesting or dynamic. So we tried to use the Tiffany thing as a way to slowly bring them back to the table.

Lets talk about Tiffany and her storyline; she was dealing with postpartum depression for the entire season. Why was it important that fans saw her in this light?

Postpartum depression is very, very common. I will say it was thought out from the beginning, before we wrote the season. One of the things that we did in Season 3 was we had Tiffany, who is this character who is married, was having a baby and also has made her life in some way feel like she needs to always seem perfect and seem like she doesnt have any flaws ... we wanted to examine what that looks like for a character who, if you remember in Season 3, the baby shower, she was built up on what it would be like to have a baby. We wanted to bring that crashing down.

We just wanted to make her really wrestle with connecting to her daughter and these issues because she thought in her mind it was going to be one way. And so we really wanted to play on this idea that nobody even asked her to be this way, but sometimes we put those things on ourselves. We can do things with Tiffany that we cant really do with the other three women because she is married and she does have a baby. So that was always something, before we really got into the season in terms of specific stories, that was an area of her life that we want to talk about.