‘Imposters’ Star Marianne Rendón On Maddie’s Decision To Go Solo In Season 1 Finale

Marianne Rendón felt sorry for Maddie (Inbar Lavi) at the end of Season 1 finale of “Imposters.”

After Team Con Artist tricked the FBI out of capturing the Doctor (Ray Proscia), Maddie duped her cohort Max (Brian Benben) and rushed to Patrick’s (Stephen Bishop) house to steal the expensive engagement ring he once gave her as part of their supposed scheme to take down the Doctor. But when she managed to open the vault, the ring was already gone.

Despite being empty-handed, Maddie drove to the bus station where she was supposed to meet the Bumblers, namely Ezra (Rob Heaps), Richard (Parker Young) and Jules (Rendón). Maddie was supposed to get on a bus to San Francisco with them, but for some reason, she ultimately decided to go solo as she secretly watched the trio head out of town.

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“In that beautiful last shot of her in the car — that shot kills me — you can just see her longing to have that sense of family,” Rendón told The Daily Dish of Maddie. “She really wants to get out of this [con] life but inevitably she can’t escape it.”

“I think it was a real struggle for her,” Rendón said of Maddie’s predicament of whether or not to join the Bumblers. “I think she’s stuck between a rock and a hard place and could go either road, and there’s two different roads. I think Maddie’s always going to be a solo artist, and that’s what she goes out on and makes that decision.”

In an interview with TVLine, series co-creator Adam Brooks offered another reason why Maddie decided not to leave Seattle with the Bumblers.

“She’s always struggling to decide how to give herself up to something, to be intimate,” Brooks said. “That’s what [Ezra] says to her in the church – ‘You’re just too afraid. You’re just that scared girl who can’t give herself to something real.’ She’s struggling with it right there, and she makes her decision.”

But if Maddie had gotten the ring, would she have gotten on the bus then? “I think that’s something that we want the audience to have to argue amongst themselves about,” Brooks’ fellow series creator Paul Adelstein told Entertainment Weekly.

Although Bravo has yet to renew “Imposters” for Season 2, Brooks is pretty optimistic that the network will order another season of the show.

“I think [Bravo’s] been very, very supportive of the show we wanted to make,” Brooks told The Hollywood Reporter. “They’ve been very enthusiastic about the results; it’s been building an audience. … We’re hopeful.”