The ends of the WGA writers strike and SAG-AFTRA actors strike imply that TV exhibits that usually would have returned to primetime by now can lastly get again to work. CBS was the primary of the foremost broadcast networks to announce a post-strike 2024 TV schedule, and February is poised to be a really large month for its scripted dramas. That features The Equalizer, which wrapped Season 3 again in Might with a serious cliffhanger. Now that followers have a premiere date to look ahead to, I am considering again to what members of the solid advised CinemaBlend, and I’ve a query for Season 4. What sort of time soar are we in for, and the way will or not it’s dealt with?
First issues first, although! CBS’ 2024 premiere schedule reveals that The Equalizer will return for the fourth season on Sunday, February 18 at 8 p.m. ET, forward of Tracker as Justin Hartley’s return to TV at 9 p.m. and CSI: Vegas on a brand new night time at 10 p.m. It is a lot too early for the community to disclose an episode description for the Season 4 premiere of the Queen Latifah drama, however two stars dropped just a few particulars months in the past which can be much more curious in gentle of the lengthy delay.
I spoke with Laya DeLeon Hayes, who performs Delilah, and Tory Kittles, who performs Marcus Dante, for the Season 3 finale again in Might. After I requested Hayes how a lot she knew about how Season 4 would repay on the cliffhanger that concerned a number of principal characters in peril of burning to loss of life and McCall seemingly helpless to rescue them. The younger actress shared:
We filmed already the primary episode of Season 4, so I totally know what goes on in that episode, which I am retaining underneath wraps.
Laya DeLeon Hayes revealed on the time that the Equalizer solid had already shot the Season 4 premiere, however a summer season of strikes meant that nothing else might be filmed for the present till the SAG-AFTRA deal was agreed upon. The actress did not drop particulars about how the hit drama would decide up on the cliffhanger, and on the time, it appeared doubtless that followers would discover out with a fall premiere as traditional.
That in fact did not occur, the The Equalizer is on the listing of exhibits anticipated to start engaged on November 27 for the 2023-2024 TV season. Tory Kittles teased a bit extra in regards to the first episode of Season 4 again in Might, saying:
It was a real-time continuation of the final episode, so there is a ticking clock aspect on the finale of, if this does not occur earlier than that fireplace catches up with them, everybody’s gonna die. So we decide up the primary episode of subsequent season precisely in the intervening time we left off. It is a continuation, and to have the ability to shoot it concurrently, really, I feel helped everybody’s efficiency and stored us in line, so we did not have to interrupt for 2 months or three months after which come again and go, ‘Okay, alright, let’s remind ourselves the place we had been after we shot that final episode three months in the past.’ We had been capable of keep in it, which lends itself to the authenticity of the performances, the stakes, [and] the place we had been as characters, and so it simply stored every part congruent in a method that I feel lends itself to some consistency within the episode.
Kittles’ feedback are literally what acquired me enthusiastic about the timeline of The Equalizer Season 3. There is not going to be a time soar between the tip of the third season finale and the fourth season premiere, however what about after the Season 4 premiere? Exhibits usually will repay on cliffhangers in a premiere after which soar just a few months forward afterwards, which is generally what I’d predict for The Equalizer. However would the present actually skip forward all the way in which to February?
A time soar that sizable won’t be an enormous deal for a solid of all adults, however Delilah is a young person who was in the course of coaching together with her mother. Dropping the higher a part of a yr would imply dropping an essential stage of her life. On the identical time, The Equalizer movies on location in New York fairly a bit, and it will be laborious to maintain filming on location and not using a large time soar. If there’s a large time soar, how will the present account for the passage of time? And can it even matter?
Thankfully, we at the least have a date for when the present will return and shed some gentle. The Equalizer returns on Sunday, February 18 at 8 p.m. ET, with the primary three seasons to this point streaming through a Paramount+ subscription now.
