Evil
Robert and Michelle King talk to TV Insider:
What can you share about what we would’ve seen in Season 5?
Robert and Michelle King talk to TV Insider:
What can you share about what we would’ve seen in Season 5?
When Under the Dome bade us farewell, there was no desire to shop the series to another platform. “I’m very happy with this ending. I feel very satisfied,” executive producer Neal Baer told TVLine. “We made it so there could be another [season]… but it wasn’t necessary.” So what might have happened to Barbie, Julia, Dawn and the rest of Chester’s Mill had the show survived to see another season? “They would have gone someplace else, and the dome would come down over another place,” Baer said, laughing.
Whereas the first season mostly centered on LAPD Lieutenant Beth Davis (Maggie Q), a potential Season 2 would have shifted the focus to Dylan McDermott’s Jack Larsen. “He comes from New York, and clearly, he didn’t just leave; he got kicked out,” series creator Kevin Williamson said with a laugh, weeks before the procedural was officially axed.
Following this mother-son legal dramedy’s untimely demise, series creator Scott Prendergast spilled every last bean to TVLine, revealing what the next five (yes, five!) seasons would have held for Todd and Margaret’s inner circle.
“It’s here,” a rapt Darius (played by Santago Cabrera) declared when last we tuned in, as Samson curiously steered into a turn toward Earth. But if Samson wasn’t a wayward asteroid, what was it?
As reevaled by showrunner Monica Macer, the nefarious group behind the nanobots would have used the tech to turn the infected — Mac himself possibly included — into Manchurian Candidate-style operatives. To stop them, Matty would have sent Riley and her Brink buds undercover with the baddies, leading to a hearted argument between Mac and Riley… and then an outpouring of feelings and a first kiss.
Though the unplanned series finale teased a #Miggy engagement (Higgins discovered a ring!… that Thomas was holding for Rick to give Susie), “There was no timetable” for the P.I. partners to tie the knot themselves had the island drama continued, showrunner Eric Guggenheim told TVLine.
As suggested in the scene above, former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Lincoln Cole would have joined Five-0 to help “hold down the fort,” with MacGyver vet Lance Gross becoming a series regular. Had Alex O’Loughlin been coaxed to return, McGarrett would have then returned from his “sabbatical” a few episodes into the new season.
Had the show continued on for another season (or more), it still would have ended the same way as the premature series finale: with that flash-forward of Miles on the mountaintop, “being taken to the person or deity who was behind the God account,” which was always imagined as the series’ conclusion, executive producer Bryan Wynbrandt told TVLine. Still, the final moment had “the ability to kind of launch us into what would have been a Season 3, in which Miles would have been on a journey to discover who the ‘she’ was” behind the Almighty’s social media.