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    'Easy' creator reflects on the Chicago TV show ahead of Netflix premiere of final season

    by Tracy Swartz, Chicago Tribune May 08, 2019 7 minutes

    CHICAGO - The third and final season of the Netflix anthology series "Easy" - which follows various Chicagoans as they navigate complicated relationships - is scheduled to drop Friday.

    Creator/director Joe Swanberg, known for such indie films as "Drinking Buddies" and "Happy Christmas," said he hopes that the third season's nine-episode run isn't the end of "Easy."

    He said he's had "very light discussions" with Netflix about the possibility of an "Easy" film, which would allow him to check in on the characters years later, in the spirit of the Oscar-nominated film "Boyhood."

    "I hope for fans of the show that they like what we've done with Season 3 and also, I've left it open. I didn't conclude this show in the sense that the ends of each episode are definitive endings. I continue to hope that it's a world that we can revisit someday," the 37-year-old Swanberg said over lunch at Half Acre Beer Company's North Center taproom. Half Acre is one of the Chicago businesses prominently featured on "Easy," which has filmed around Chicago for three years.

    The format of "Easy" allows viewers to binge-watch entire seasons or watch individual episodes

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