Spoilers for The Equalizer’s sequence finale are forward! To catch up, you possibly can stream the CBS drama with a Paramount+ subscription.
CBS has been brutal with the cancellations this yr. The community has axed plenty of exhibits, with The Equalizer most not too long ago becoming a member of the listing of exhibits 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 have 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 sequence 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 in all probability joyful figuring out that the couple’s future is ready in stone, they’re additionally in all probability unhappy that they don’t get to see them get married. But it surely may have occurred.
In an interview with TV Insider performed previous to the cancellation, showrunner Joe Wilson stated 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 marriage ceremony bells. We’ll see that marriage ceremony. It will be crazier than the proposal. It’s characteristic worthy, what we’d do with it. And simply the persevering with, what does their relationship seem like equalizing as a household enterprise as she says on this episode. So these are the issues we’d concentrate on.
Listening to what may have been with the marriage is gloomy, figuring out that followers won’t ever see that occur, not less than for now. Although maybe this might be a superb factor, particularly because it seems like the marriage would have been an entire lot crazier than the proposal, no matter that might imply. Robyn and Dante definitely deserve a peaceable marriage ceremony, however that doesn’t imply that it nonetheless isn’t unhappy that the marriage won’t ever occur on-screen.
The marriage isn’t all that Wilson and the writers have been cooking up for Season 6. Wilson additionally shared that though it’s exhausting to inform what else may occur within the sixth season, particularly with Robyn’s daughter Delilah going off to varsity, principally your entire solid of The Equalizer, roughly, would have returned, even when not full-time, and hold that household dynamic that followers beloved a lot:
We’d should see the way it unfolds. Our plan is to set it up for the viewers to not miss the household dynamic because it at present is. In order that they’ll be in numerous capacities, however with know-how and journey, we don’t need 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 need to lose that. So if something, we’ll dial it in much more so we will concentrate on that somewhat bit extra. Even should 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 informed. Queen Latifah has spoken out concerning the cancellation, assuring followers that she’s going to return to “kick ass” sooner or later. So on the very least, she could now 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 at all times powerful every time a present will get canceled earlier than its time, particularly when plans for the following season have been already in place. Not even Tracker may reserve it. This definitely makes me need a sixth season much more, figuring out what may have occurred, and the truth that it by no means will is definitely exhausting. However with Robyn and Dante residing fortunately ever after, it’s higher than nothing.