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Spoilers for The Equalizer’s collection finale are forward! To catch up, you may stream the CBS drama with a Paramount+ subscription.
CBS has been brutal with the cancellations this 12 months. The community has axed various reveals, with The Equalizer most not too long ago becoming a member of the record 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 in all probability pleased figuring out that the couple’s future is about in stone, they’re additionally in all probability unhappy that they don’t get to see them get married. But it might have occurred.
In an interview with TV Insider performed 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 marriage ceremony bells. We are going to see that marriage ceremony. It’s going to be crazier than the proposal. It’s function worthy, what we might 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 deal with.
Listening to what might have been with the marriage is unhappy, figuring out that followers won’t ever see that occur, not less than for now. Although maybe this might be a great factor, particularly because it appears like the marriage would have been an entire lot crazier than the proposal, no matter that would 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 ceremony isn’t all that Wilson and the writers had been cooking up for Season 6. Wilson additionally shared that though it’s exhausting to inform what else might occur within the sixth season, particularly with Robyn’s daughter Delilah going off to varsity, principally the whole forged of The Equalizer, roughly, would have returned, even when not full-time, and hold that household dynamic that followers liked 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 several capacities, however with expertise 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 power and assist. We don’t need to lose that. So if something, we’ll dial it in much more so we are able to deal with that just a little bit extra. Even for those who don’t see it each episode, you received’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 remains to be going to leap into motion. That doesn’t make the cancellation any simpler, although.
It is all the time robust each time a present will get canceled earlier than its time, particularly when plans for the following season had been already in place. Not even Tracker might reserve it. This definitely makes me desire a sixth season much more, figuring out what might have occurred, and the truth that it by no means will is definitely exhausting. But with Robyn and Dante dwelling fortunately ever after, it’s higher than nothing.
