Revenge canceled by ABC after four seasons
It looks like Emily Thorne’s epic quest for vengeance will finally end as ABC has officially announced this will be the final season of Revenge.
The show, which was a huge ratings hit early on, is currently in its fourth season with the series finale set to air May 10. “We can officially tell our fans that this will be the end of the story,” the show’s executive producer Sunil Nayar tells Entertainment Weekly. “We’ve been talking to the network and we all just wanted to make sure that we felt very confident. Now that everybody has seen the finale—which is fabulous—everybody understands that as much as we all adore the show, it has hit exactly the mark it needed to end. This is the series finale of Revenge that will be airing in a couple weeks.”
As far as what fans can expect to happen in the finale, Nayar remains vague, but confident that viewers will not be disappointed. “There are epic emotional moments in the finale,” he says. “There are really shocking things that happen in the finale. It’s a tricky thing because the fans are such passionate lovers of the show and we really want to give them what they want, but the hard part about a finale in a show like this is you want to give them some of what they want, some of what they don’t know they want yet and some of what they never expected, and it needs to be a perfect mix of all those things. I truly believe our finale is the perfect mix of all those three things. I think they’re going to be extremely satisfied.”
Nayar also reveals that the finale will wrap up some things, but it will also have “a tiny little cliffhanger,” which may tie into ABC’s new show The Kingmakers, rumored to be a Revenge spin-off series.
Revenge was a huge sensation in its inaugural season, pulling in 10 million viewers and dominating social media. Ratings began to decline in Season 2 as viewers seemed to get a little weary of the many, many, many, many plot twists. And speaking of that, Nayar suggests they had many, many more in store, but decided it was the right time to end things.
“We certainly had a pitch of how the show could go on, but this is why I feel so grateful to the studio and the network because they also erred on the side of creativity,” Nayar says. “The show is still popular, it’s loved worldwide. I can see why all the arguments from even an economic standpoint to maybe keep it going, but at the end of the day—kind of like they had with Lost—they support creativity above all. They really got the sense with us as their partners that we all came up with a great way to end these stories.”
The Revenge series finale, ominously titled “Two Graves,” will air Sunday, May 10 at 10/9c on ABC.
