Superstore bosses confirm America Ferrera will return for season 6 premiere
at the end of the comedy's fifth season. But when the show shut down production in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, Ferrera revealed that they weren't able to complete the season as planned. Specifically, they filmed 21 of 22 episodes.
Now the 21st episode has aired — serving as the season 5 finale — and EW spoke with executive producers Jonathan Green and Gabe Miller about the season's abrupt end, and what it means for Amy's goodbye.JONATHAN GREEN: We knew it was a possibility about halfway through the season. At that point we started talking about one version of the end of the season where Amy was still there and one version where she left, and then we were soon able to commit to the version where she left.One thing that kind of worked out well for us is that it had organically been part of Amy's story that she was rising as a manager in the eyes of corporate, and getting noticed.
You're saying goodbye to such a major part of the show. What was your reaction when you found out you wouldn't get to film the second part of your finale?It ended up not really being much of a bummer at all because pretty immediately we decided that America would be coming back. She really wanted to come back and do the planned finale as our first episode of next season. It was a very quick, mutual decision. There was no back-and-forth about it at all.
Amy and Jonah's relationship has been so central to the show. What can you say about how her move will impact them?That is a big thing that involved a lot of discussion with America and Ben [Feldman] and all of our writers figuring out the best thing to land on. I don't want to give away too much, but Ben Feldman is staying on the show and we feel like what we're talking about is a way of honoring the relationship that they have and we feel like it feels very real.
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