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Spoilers for The Equalizer’s collection finale are forward! To catch up, you’ll be able to stream the CBS drama with a Paramount+ subscription.
CBS has been brutal with the cancellations this yr. The community has axed quite a few reveals, with The Equalizer most just lately becoming a member of the listing of reveals canceled and ending in 2025. The Queen Latifah-led crime drama formally ended on Sunday on the 2025 TV schedule after 5 seasons, and as anticipated, plans had been already in place for Season 6. The showrunner even revealed what would have occurred had the present continued on past Season 5.
Within the collection finale, Latifah’s Robyn McCall and Tory Kittles’ Dante finally get engaged, which got here after Dante was shot throughout their romantic getaway because of Juan Javier Cardenas’ Salazar. Though followers are most likely joyful understanding that the couple’s future is about in stone, they’re additionally most likely unhappy that they don’t get to see them get married. But it may have occurred.
In an interview with TV Insider carried out previous to the cancellation, showrunner Joe Wilson mentioned that he hoped to see the 2 stroll down the aisle for Season 6:
That I hope we get it. [Laughs] I can say is that if we do get it, there are wedding ceremony bells. We’ll see that wedding ceremony. It’ll be crazier than the proposal. It’s function worthy, what we’d do with it. And simply the persevering with, what does their relationship appear like equalizing as a household enterprise as she says on this episode. So these are the issues we’d give attention to.
Listening to what may have been with the marriage is gloomy, understanding that followers won’t ever see that occur, no less than for now. Although maybe this could possibly be a very good factor, particularly because it feels like the marriage would have been a complete lot crazier than the proposal, no matter that might imply. Robyn and Dante definitely deserve a peaceable wedding ceremony, however that doesn’t imply that it nonetheless isn’t unhappy that the marriage won’t ever occur on-screen.
The wedding ceremony isn’t all that Wilson and the writers had been cooking up for Season 6. Wilson additionally shared that though it’s onerous to inform what else may occur within the sixth season, particularly with Robyn’s daughter Delilah going off to varsity, largely all the forged of The Equalizer, kind of, would have returned, even when not full-time, and preserve that household dynamic that followers liked a lot:
We’d must see the way it unfolds. Our plan is to set it up for the viewers to not miss the household dynamic because it at the moment is. So that they’ll be in numerous capacities, however with know-how and journey, we don’t wish to lose that core. That’s the core of the present, these three generations of black girls and their relationship and the energy and assist. We don’t wish to lose that. So if something, we’ll dial it in much more so we are able to give attention to that slightly bit extra. Even when you don’t see it each episode, you gained’t miss it.
It’s unknown if The Equalizer can be shopped round elsewhere, particularly because it’s clear that extra tales are ready to be advised. Queen Latifah has spoken out in regards to the cancellation, assuring followers that she is going to return to “kick ass” sooner or later. So on the very least, she could not play Robyn McCall, however she continues to be going to leap into motion. That doesn’t make the cancellation any simpler, although.
It is all the time powerful every time a present will get canceled earlier than its time, particularly when plans for the subsequent season had been already in place. Not even Tracker may reserve it. This definitely makes me desire a sixth season much more, understanding what may have occurred, and the truth that it by no means will is definitely onerous. But with Robyn and Dante dwelling fortunately ever after, it’s higher than nothing.
