The Fosters co-creator: We didn't want to do the Downton Abbey series finale

Entertainment Weekly

"These are messy real people on messy real journeys, and those journeys don’t always run parallel," says executive producer and co-creator Peter Paige. He adds: "We got a little less political, a little more into the relationships and who these people were becoming in their adult lives. It was nice to be able to check in with all of them and see how they were making it on the road to adulthood. We wanted to create stories where there would be organic reasons to remind us how far we’ve come, where, in moving forward, we would naturally look back."

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