CBS announced it was not renewing the series past the season 5 finale days before it aired on May 4 Warning: This post contains spoilers for the series finale of The Equalizer. The Equalizer ended with an action-packed series finale on May 4 The episode didn't end with a cliffhanger,

CBS has been brutal with the cancellations this year. The network has axed a number of shows, with The Equalizer most recently joining the list of shows canceled and ending in 202

For Latifah, however, the show “blew past every dream we had for it,” calling its five-season run “surreal.” Latifah did not use her Instagram post to encourage fans to write their local streamer services about reviving the series.