Warning: spoilers are forward for the Season 1 finale of Homicide in a Small City, which aired on Fox and shall be obtainable streaming with a Hulu subscription.
Homicide in a Small City completed the primary season within the fall 2024 TV schedule with a two-parter of types, with Alberg (Rossif Sutherland) and the Gibsons police division following clues to lastly catch a serial killer whose crimes prolonged even additional than they’d imagined. The unhealthy man of the Fox drama’s ultimate arc was Tommy Cummins, performed by none aside from Schitt’s Creek‘s Noah Reid. Alberg did handle to shut the case with out Holly (Dakota Guppy ) being harmed, all whereas Cassandra (Kristin Kreuk) went on her personal emotional journey and decided about her future.
The finale, known as “Sleep Whereas I Sing,” ended with the central couple getting again collectively and persevering with to keep away from the “will they/will not they” storytelling cliche. The episode additionally aired earlier than Fox made any announcement about the way forward for the sequence. So, once I spoke with government producer Jeff Wachtel concerning the finale, he weighed in on whether or not the present will proceed in a second season within the 2025 TV schedule in addition to how Alberg and Cassandra’s tales had been wrapped.
Alberg And Cassandra Reunite
Within the ultimate moments of Season 1, when the motion had lastly died down and the characters had time to breathe, Alberg and Cassandra lastly had an actual dialog. He advised her that his second daughter can be coming to city, and she or he advised him that she’d be operating for city council. Gibsons has change into a house for each of them. He gently requested that she inform him about what occurred in Sacramento some day, and she or he identified that they each suppose an excessive amount of. She tearfully requested what he needs, and he instantly stated “You.”
And the way else might the season finish however with the 2 sharing a kiss after he dropped that remark to her? All in all, it was a really completely happy ending to an episode that includes probably the most dastardly legal of the total first season. After I spoke with government producer Jeff Wachtel concerning the episode, I requested if the Homicide in a Small City group had ever thought of a cliffhanger ending versus the completely happy second, and he shared:
We checked out each risk. There was the opportunity of the cliffhanger, and there was actually the chance [that they wouldn’t get back together], as a result of she’s not kidding when she says she would not wish to date a cop. So we had to have a look at it fastidiously and have what we hope and imagine was an natural decision. That meant taking a look at it fastidiously and together with the chance that it was not going to work out. We checked out it from all angles, and it appeared that post-kidnapping, after which with – I believed – the legit and natural storyline of Episode 7 and eight, the place they really miss one another, they make one another smile.
Cassandra being kidnapped due to one thing Alberg had completed years earlier might have actually been an insurmountable situation, however the two had fallen for one another already, and so they selected to be collectively once more within the ultimate moments of Season 1. Wachtel continued:
Did he go to her for recommendation concerning the artist as a result of there was no person else on the planet to ask. In all probability there was slightly one thing behind his head, as a result of he actually needs it. I believe he needed to pursue it. I believe she was strong-willed sufficient, and as we’ll see within the second season, the incident that she left Sacramento round was vital sufficient and disturbing sufficient that even being round cops is just not a simple factor for her. So Cassandra actually does have to take inventory and see what is the course of her life.
The mentions of what occurred in Sacramento will not be imprecise and inexplicable without end… assuming that Homicide in a Small City will get a second season, anyway. In mild of the finale airing with out the renewal already assured, followers can at the very least benefit from the episode with out having to fret that an imminent life-or-death cliffhanger won’t ever be resolved. Wachtel clarified that the massive kiss would not essentially imply an happily-ever-after for the pair:
Kristin [Kreuk]’s a really good girl. Cassandra is a really good girl who has decided the course of her life and would not endure fools and will not keep in a scenario if it is too painful for her. So we wanted to have a look at all that and have them on a constructive however not lovey dovey, ‘Let’s e-book the minister and get married’ second. There’s nonetheless going to be bumps within the highway.
Contemplating that Cassandra joked – or semi-joked – about police oversight when she advised Alberg that she’d be operating for city council, might there be some new sorts of bumps in addition to one other daughter coming to city and Cassandra coping with no matter occurred in Sacramento? Hopefully it will simply be a matter of ready to search out out after a renewal is confirmed.
What About Season 2?
It is commonplace for a season of a present to finish with out information of a renewal or cancellation, so followers do not need to take it as a foul signal that Season 2 has not but been confirmed on the time of writing. It is clear that the writers and producers are already developing with concepts for what comes subsequent, although, and EP Jeff Wachtel shared how far forward they’re planning at this level:
Fox gave us some cash for scripts, and as a part of that course of, we had Ian [Weir] at the very least do thumbnails by way of the total season. We’re not all the way in which there but. We have the primary 4 episodes damaged with full tales and simply little sketches of the extra episodes.
Apparently, creator/EP/author Ian Weir and the remainder of the Homicide and a Small City group behind the scenes have made a good quantity of progress on scripts for a second season, which hopefully means not solely a renewal sooner somewhat than later, but additionally hopefully new episodes sooner somewhat than later in 2025. After the ultimate credit rolled to actually set up why this can be a totally different sort of crime present, Wachtel stated:
Look, in some methods, it is a easy and conventional crime procedural. However today, nobody’s secure, proper? So that you by no means actually know. Going ahead, we’re actually most excited concerning the relationship. We had been simply so happy and amazed that the chemistry between Rossif and Kristin got here collectively in addition to it did, as a result of we felt that the shock ingredient of the present or the additional particular factor that we dropped at the combo was their relationship. I imply, it is a fantastic location and there is a crime and also you’re fairly certain the crime goes to get solved, however you had no concept what is going on to occur with these two, and also you’re rooting for it. So it was actually great to see how effectively it got here collectively.
For now, you may all the time rewatch the primary eight episodes of Homicide in a Small City streaming on Hulu. Previous to the finale, the drama ranked because the #1 new present for Fox content material on Hulu in addition to #3 for all Fox content material on Hulu for the 2024-2025 TV season thus far. Plus, Homicide in a Small City viewership numbers develop by practically 130% with multiplatform viewing. The viewers definitely is not restricted to Fox, and hopefully shall be rewarded with a Season 2 renewal.