After getting canceled for a 3rd time, S.W.A.T. might be ending subsequent month on the 2025 TV schedule. Although the hope for an additional season remains to be very a lot alive, we additionally want to return to phrases with this being the tip. Feedback concerning the finale have me careworn since it’ll apparently depart followers wanting extra, and the showrunner defined why it received’t be a giant occasion episode. Nonetheless, whereas I discover this all a bit disappointing, it is also comprehensible.
By the point CBS canceled S.W.A.T. once more, the forged and crew had been already a number of weeks out from filming the finale. So, whereas it is potential that the episode was initially written to additionally function a sequence finale, one thing that numerous writers do when the longer term is unknown, don’t anticipate there to be a lot change to accommodate the cancellation. Additionally, not like most sequence finales, S.W.A.T. received’t be going too large for 20-Squad’s ultimate on-screen outing, as showrunner Andrew Dettmann advised TVLine:
Even when we’re not airing every week, we would like the viewers to really feel that Hondo and 20-Squad will go on, that 20-Squad will at all times be on the market taking down the unhealthy guys and defending town of L.A.
This is sensible since 20-Squad will perpetually be out and about and saving lives throughout the Los Angeles space, even when it is not on-screen. Plus, this makes it in order that if S.W.A.T. manages to tug off one other miraculous save, it will be straightforward to select up the place it left off. That being stated, though there are nonetheless a handful of episodes left and room for surprises, it sounds just like the finale might be your typical S.W.A.T. season finale, which is thrilling.
Nonetheless, I am not hopeful that there might be any large surprises, such because the return of Lina Esco’s Chris, Alex Russell’s Road, and Kenny Johnson’s Luca. There was some hope that the three might come again after it was revealed in Russell’s ultimate episode final 12 months that Road was going to ask Chris to marry him. However it looks as if the Stris wedding ceremony should be left to the creativeness of the followers.
Filming for Season 8 formally wrapped in March and the forged acquired emotional reacting to the tip. The finale could not have large sequence finale vibes, however it’s clear that followers will definitely nonetheless get emotional realizing that it’s going to doubtless be the final time they see 20-Squad, or not less than, new episodes involving them.
No matter how large or small these ultimate episodes of S.W.A.T. are, they are going to nonetheless be large because the forged and crew have poured their hearts into them. It’s going to be a tragic day when the finale airs on Might 16, however not less than followers can at all times flip to streaming for consolation. New episodes of S.W.A.T. air on Fridays at 10 p.m. ET on CBS, and stream the subsequent day with a Paramount+ subscription. The primary seven seasons are additionally streaming for these with a Netflix subscription.