Viewers of The Goldbergs have wondered how the exit of Jeff Garlin from the series will be handled, and the fate of his character, patriarch Murray Goldberg, has now been revealed. The comedy is taking a page from the playbook of The Conners by killing off Garlin’s character. Season 10 of The Goldbergs will pick up several months after Murray’s death.
Starring Wendi McLendon-Covey, Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile, Hayley Orrantia, Sam Lerner, and Patton Oswalt (voice), the ABC series is set in the 1980s and depicts series creator Adam Goldberg’s early life. In real life, Goldberg’s father passed in 2008.
Co-showrunner Alex Barnow said the following about the series and how Garlin’s exit will be handled, per Entertainment Weekly:
“This is going to be a family that has not reconciled the fact that their father’s gone but has sort of moved on and has dealt with a lot of that. So we’re starting with optimism about a baby coming and looking forward to the future. It’s an opportunity for this interesting emotional basis for the way people are behaving.”
Co-showrunner Chris Bishop added the following: “It honestly feels like a huge reboot for us. So we have tons of momentum rolling into this new season.”
The Goldbergs returns to ABC on September 21st.
What do you think? Are you surprised by how Garlin’s exit is being handled on The Goldbergs?
This show jumped the shark last season. Please make this the end. The “kids” aren’t kids anymore. I mean Erica is having a kid! Killing Jeff off is the easy way out here. So let the grandchild be the perfect circle of life to conclude the series.
They Should Of Just Ended The Show Last Season It Had A Good Run
This will be the final season, bet your soul on it. Why? because it’s a show about “the 80s” and it’s in the 10th season. So you’re out of 80s. They already tried a spinoff about the 90s and it didn’t work. It was a show about a family with two parents, three kids and a live in grandpa. All the kids have moved out, grandpa’s dead (for real) and dad’s dead (due to his own stupidity). So basically… the whole premise of the show is gone. I’ve read elsewhere that Erica is pregnant this season… not all that shocking… Read more »
I used to love this show. It’s way past time to kill the whole show off.
They ran out of story a couple years ago. It’s all a repeat now. They are too old to be as dumb as they act.
It’s unfortunate bad behavior got him kicked off the show. Last season was still good and seemed to work okay without him. I’m impressed the show is still going strong and hope the quality of the writing remains high. 10 seasons is a lot.
Not really, he quit the show after they invistigate him season after season.
But tbh this show needed to ended few season ago, it’s just not funny anymore.