"Grandfathered" news and updates: Season finale on May 10

"Grandfathered" is all set for the second season in a few weeks' time. Well! John Stamos is proud of the first season, especially the emotional turn in the last episode.

Stamos tells E! news that the show's emotional turn-which will carry over through the final two episodes of the season-was a purposeful maneuver. "We're on the bubble here with the show. We've gotta prove why we should be picked up, so we just dug in," he says.

"I wanted to sort of knock Jimmy to his most raw place," Stamos says. "It was about mortality and time that he had maybe wasted not knowing his son and his granddaughter."

Jimmy struggles to actually accept the fact that his father is gone in tonight's episode, "I'm avoiding the fact that my father has just died. I have to write a eulogy for him and I'm having a hard time coming up with a nice thing to say about him and what happens is that my family helps me," Stamos explains. Plus, "[Jimmy also] has to come to terms with his dad being gone and not speaking to him for a year. That's another great lesson-you can't let time go by and not tell someone you love them."

Stamos is proud of the feel-good TV he's known for. "I think it's important to for people to have a safe place to tune in," he says. "It's kind of like comfort food. It's the kind of television that I enjoy making-I just hope there's still an audience for it. It just scares me that the television audience is dwindling and dwindling every week. It's so difficult to get people to watch network television unless it's a live event or sports or an award show, so it's an uphill battle."

He continues, "but regardless of where we turn out I'm so proud of the show. The last two episodes are the exact way I wanted to end this first season. Do or die, I stand by what we did there."

"Grandfathered" airs Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. on Fox and the season finale airs May 10.