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SEAL Team ended on a high note with the series finale on October 6, 2024. After seven seasons following an elite unit of the United States Navy SEALs, the show took a few twists and turns before reaching a satisfying conclusion for fans. Will SEAL Team get a Season 8, or is the show over for good?
In the finale, after Jason Hayes (David Boreanaz) and Bravo Team successfully complete their mission, the unit is deployed to Afghanistan for one last mission. Jason resolves his internal 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 are shot by the enemy 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 Warrior Chief Medical Officer. In the final scene, Jason is in a helicopter with the younger members of the SEAL crew, saying “Easy days!”
Could the show continue for another season? In an October interview with TVLine, SEAL Team showrunner Spencer Hudnut gave 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 settling down.”
The showrunner explained that he had to do some rework for the series finale, 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 idea that this was going to be the last one. So it was really late in the process that I realized this was going to be the end, and I really only had three acts of the finale to ‘land the plane,’” he said.
Hudnut added, “They’re definitely finishing up the third base of their story and their career right now, so we don’t have to re-arrange too much. But certainly for Jason, it’s a different ending than I thought at the beginning of the season.”
He did reveal a bit about what the show might look like after Season 7 if it continues. “That’s going to be 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 this season down, the ending of the season was Jason and Mandy going to Afghanistan to start this journey, this path of redemption for Jason, then we had to cram that into the episode in a different way,” he explained.
“I was hoping to take them on a path where Jason is on a path of trying to forgive himself, and to erase the stain of war from him, but also land in a place where we can get them in trouble to start a potential Season 8 in a really big way,” Hudnut shared.
As for Jason’s story, Hudnut said he knew they would explore the “shame” the character feels, but with the shorter storytelling time, that had to be addressed pretty quickly. “We knew we were going to get into that with Jason,” he said. “We just didn’t know that we were going to end it — not necessarily with a bow — but that we were going to have to end it that quickly.”
He noted, “A lot of the work he’s done over the last few seasons has allowed him to get to where he is at the end, which is seeing himself in a different light and understanding that he’s done his job well. He understands that he shouldn’t give up on himself. He shouldn’t listen to Curtis’ “fight [to have the last word]. He had the last word. He should understand that there’s still hope. But now he has to keep pushing.”
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 all season to a point where Omar is going to take steps to start making peace with his son,” he said. “And there’s more to Drew and his backstory, where with the help of Jason and his teammates, he’s going to start making peace with his family. So I’m excited to see where we can take those two characters.”
As for the rumored SEAL Team movie, Hudnut has some bad news. It’s unlikely to happen… but he’s not done yet.
