"Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" was the fifth episode of the series to be written by Alexander Woo and the first to be directed by Michael Cuesta, who had previously directed numerous episodes of Alan Ball's other HBO series Six Feet Under, including that show's penultimate episode [REF].
Ball said of the finale, "..the first part of the season we had a lot of different storylines taking place in different places and then we wanted to bring them all together .. where everyone was fighting the same fight for the last episode."[REF]