"Respectful" way to ontegrate DE into the series
I guess this would all be fanfic anyway as the writers would never see this thread, but whatever.
I see season 1 as ending without a single choice being made, but seeing BOTH choices made (save the town AND save Chloe) in 2 different universes. Season 2 would take place a decade later and at some point have the 2 universes merging and causing world-wide psychosis where people are unable to deal with memories from both universes. People will remember families and lives that don't exist and lose their minds. Even those without significant changes start losing their minds. Max needs to re-separate the universes, but her own emotions are out-of-wack due to the same psychosis affecting everyone else. Chloe talks to Steph who introduces Alex to Max who is able to stablize her emotional state and help to fix the damage and split the universes apart again.
This whole story would allow Max to stay with Chloe and also have her move on (with Amanda, naturally, sorry Vinh) in the other universe.
There are probably some issues as I spent all of 5 minutes thinking this up and some Pricefielders will hate it, but it avoids the breakup and also allows both endings to exist.