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Good Trouble wrapped on Freeform final evening with an prolonged episode for its collection finale, nevertheless it was not initially filmed that means. The drama’s fifth season wrapped filming in June forward of its cancellation in December.
All concerned with the collection believed it will be picked up for a sixth season, however business strikes and cutbacks at networks and streaming providers led to its cancellation.
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 condo constructing in Los Angeles. Maia Mitchell, who departed on the finish of season 4, returned for the collection’ remaining season.
With manufacturing on Good Trouble wrapped earlier than information of its cancellation was launched, giving the collection a correct finish with closure for the followers turned a difficulty.
Showrunner Joanna Johnson mentioned the next in regards to the collection finale and the way issues modified after Freeform canceled the present, per Deadline:
“We completed capturing Season 5 in June. We had delivered the collection and the finale and every little thing actually believing that we had been going to get to Season 6, and I feel that was the plan. Then the strikes had been simply extremely bruising after which went very lengthy. There’s a variety of monetary pressures on the studios and the networks, and issues simply modified. And I heard in about October, I feel, 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 combating so exhausting for us and deserves an enormous shout out, she referred to 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 Trouble.
We had some financial savings from Season 5, and I mentioned, ‘Is there any way we could use that savings to shoot some more scenes so that we can…at least see a series finale and and a proper 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 publish, 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 minimize some some tales that we had been attempting as well 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 pretty, as a result of all people obtained to come back again collectively — our great solid and our great crew — and have these two days to correctly say goodbye.”
What do you think? Are you a fan of Good Trouble? Were you unhappy to see it finish? Did the finale give correct closure for the collection?
