The 9-1-1: Lone Star team didn’t officially know the show was ending with its upcoming fifth and final season (premiering Monday, September 23 on Fox ) until recently, but the writing was on the wall before then. “We didn’t officially find out this was the final season until about three weeks ago or something like that, when it was on an ad for the show,” co-showrunner and executive producer Rashad Raisani tells TV Insider. “But we knew even before the writers’ and actors’ strikes because of some of the deal-making minutia, because this was a Disney-owned show on a Fox network that it was gonna be difficult for it to go past Season 5 just from a financial numbers point of view.
” As a result, the approach to writing the season was to “hopefully give it a poetic ending and make people feel like it was incredibly satisfying,” he continues. That being said, expect it to end “very on brand.” Raisani teases, “It’s gonna have an apocalyptic ending in more ways than one.
I’m immensely proud. I haven’t cut the last two episodes, so I haven’t seen how they fully work out, but I’m very confident that they will give you this feeling, I hope, that we are leaving all of these people right where they should be at the end of their journeys—for better, for worse. I think people are gonna have a tremendous sense of both closure and longing to not want to leave them behind, that we’re leaving them just before we’re ready to say goodbye, which I hope is .