SEAL Team Finale Opens the Door as Show Boss Reveals What *Will* Happen in Season 8
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SEAL Team brought a perfect conclusion to the series finale on October 6, 2024. After seven seasons following an elite unit of the United States Navy SEALs, the show delivered a number of twists and turns before reaching a satisfying conclusion for fans. Will there be a SEAL Team Season 8, or is the show over for good?
In the finale, after Jason Hayes (David Boreanaz) and Bravo Team’s successful mission, the unit is deployed to Afghanistan for one last mission. Jason resolves his inner conflict and finds peace when he, Ray Perry (Neil Brown Jr.) and Sonny Quinn (AJ Buckley) take a side trip to see the wife of the first man Jason killed. They come under enemy fire as they drive away from the village… the episode then cuts to Emma’s wedding (they survived the mission!) and Jason walks her down the aisle.
Sonny leaves Bravo in favor of Davis (Toni Trucks), who secures her promotion. Meanwhile, Ray takes over as Chief of Warrior Medicine. In the final scene, Jason is in a helicopter with the younger members of the SEAL crew, saying “Easy day!”
Could the show continue for another season? In an October interview with TVLine, SEAL Team showrunner Spencer Hudnut offered some insight into what Season 8 might look like if the show continues. Hudnut shared that since the show moved to Paramount+, he wanted to end each season “in a place where we would happily leave the characters, where they felt like they had made some progress or felt like they were settled.”
The showrunner explained that he had to do some reworking for the series’ conclusion, especially when it came to Jason’s story. “I will say that when we broke this season, at the point where it was 90 percent written, I had no clue that this was going to be the last season. So it was really late in the process that I realized this was going to be the last, and I really only had three acts of the final episode to ‘land the plane,’” he said.
Hudnut added, “Now, they’ve definitely done the third base in their story and their career, so we didn’t have to do too much reworking. But certainly for Jason, it’s a different ending than I had in mind at the beginning of the season.”
He teased a bit about what the show might have been after Season 7 if it had continued. “That would have been largely dictated by the contractual terms that you have at the end of Season 7, the actors have to make decisions… But when I originally broke the season, the end of the season was Jason and Mandy going to Afghanistan to go on this journey, this path of redemption for Jason, which we then had to cram into the episode in a different way,” he explained.
Hudnut shared, “My hope is to take them on a path where Jason is on the path to finding a way to forgive himself and erase the stain of war from him, but also land in a place where we can get them in trouble to start off a potential Season 8 in a really big way.”
As for Jason’s story, Hudnut said he knows they’ll explore “the shame” the character feels, but with a shorter timeline to tell the story, it had to be resolved pretty quickly. “We knew we were going to get into that with Jason,” he said. “We just didn’t know that we would end it — certainly not with a bow — but that we would have to end it that quickly.”
“A lot of the work that he’s done over the last few seasons has allowed him to get to where he is at the end of the show, which is to look at himself in a different light and understand that he did his job well. Understand that he shouldn’t give up on himself. He shouldn’t hear Curtis’s cry of “war [has the last word]. He has the last word. He should understand that there’s hope. But now he has to keep working on himself.”
Hudnut also shared that the show could explore more of the characters’ stories in Season 8. “We’ve really been building Drew and Omar up over the course of the season to the point where next season Omar is taking steps to start to reconcile with his son,” he said. “And there’s a lot more to Drew and his backstory, where with the help of Jason and the team, he’s starting to make peace with his own family. So those two characters, I’m excited to see where we can take them.”
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