Good Bother ended on Freeform final night time with an prolonged collection finale episode, however it was not initially filmed that manner. The drama’s fifth season wrapped filming in June forward of its cancellation in December.
The collection stars Cierra Ramirez, Tommy Martinez, Emma Hunton, Sherry Cola, Zuri Adele, Josh Pence, Bryan Craig, and Booboo Stewart. It options characters first seen in The Fosters. The story follows Mariana (Ramirez) and others who dwell in a small condominium constructing in Los Angeles. Maia Mitchell, who departed on the finish of season 4, returned for the collection’ ultimate episode.
All concerned with the Freeform collection believed it will be picked up for a sixth season, however the trade strikes and cutbacks led to its cancellation.
Since manufacturing on Good Bother had wrapped lengthy earlier than the drama was cancelled, the present wasn’t going to have any type of closure.
Showrunner Joanna Johnson mentioned the next in regards to the collection finale and the way issues modified after Freeform cancelled the present, per Deadline:
“We completed capturing Season 5 in June. We had delivered the collection and the finale and all the things actually believing that we had been going to get to Season 6, and I believe that was the plan. Then the strikes had been simply extremely bruising after which went very lengthy. There’s numerous monetary pressures on the studios and the networks, and issues simply modified. And I heard in about October, I believe, that our pickup wasn’t essentially assured…proper earlier than the vacations, Simran Sethi [EVP of Programming and Content Strategy, ABC Studios], who had been preventing so exhausting for us and deserves an enormous shout out, she known as me and really graciously mentioned how sorry she was that they weren’t going to have the ability to produce any extra episodes of Good Bother.
We had some financial savings from Season 5, and I mentioned, ‘Is there any manner we might use that financial savings to shoot some extra scenes in order that we will…no less than see a collection finale and have a correct goodbye?’ She actually went to bat for us, and so they allow us to do it. She simply mentioned it could possibly be as lengthy [we] needed it to be. It was great. So then we needed to simply await Maia Mitchell to be accessible, as a result of she was in a film. We didn’t have a lot time to submit, as a result of it airs on Tuesday. So a pair weeks in the past, we shot it for 2 days. I opened up the the finale that we had, and I reduce some some tales that we had been attempting besides and cliff on for Season 6, as a result of it didn’t make any sense anymore. I wrote these new scenes in order that we might have that final household Coterie dinner and the ultimate scene on the roof. It was simply beautiful, as a result of everyone received to return again collectively — our great forged and our great crew — and have these two days to correctly say goodbye.”
What do you suppose? Have you ever saved up with the Good Bother TV collection? Had been you unhappy to see it finish? Did the finale give correct closure to this Freeform collection?
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