‘Black-ish’ Series Finale: EPs Say “There’s No Reason It Needs To End, It Can Go On For Years”
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of Tuesday’s series finale of Black-ish on ABC.After eight seasons, Kenya Barris’ ABC comedy Black-ish came to a bittersweet end with the series-finale episode “Homegoing,” with the Johnson family selling their place so they could return to living in a Black neighborhood.
It also turned into an opportunity for the cast and crew to, quite literally, dance in the street for a job well done. Here, Barris and showrunner Courtney Lilly discuss the comedy’s finale, what they hoped to accomplish, and what’s next for the franchise.DEADLINE: The episode ends with a New Orleans jazz funeral to celebrate the end of their life, so to speak, in that mostly white neighborhood.
And it was followed with dancing in the streets! Too bad the dancing didn’t go on for longer. It was great to watch. COURTNEY LILLY: I know!
Obviously there have time constraints and this and that, but that was a lot of our crew in that shot. If I could go back, I just would’ve stayed there longer, you know? ‘Cause that’s what we felt where we wanted to be.
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