Well, in “Civil Ceremony,” viewers got to learn that Donna died “over a year ago,” without any further details.
(Though there was talk that it would be handled “with dignity.”)
And then, after Donna’s gym sent a postcard to the Gable household, daughter Kendra said she would call someone about it, to which Kevin advised her against throwing the postcard away, because there was a coupon for kung-fu lesson on it.
It was announced earlier this year that Kevin Can Wait’s creative team would be using a death to explain Donna’s absence, rather than using separation or divorce to keep her out of the picture, but there wasn’t any clue how that would exactly go down.