Apple TV+ has decided to cancel video game comedy ‘Mythic Quest‘ after 4 Seasons… However, the final episode of season four will now be “updated” to give some closure to the series.
The latest season, which only recently finished its run, brought stars Rob McElhenney, Charlotte Nicdao, David Hornsby, Danny Pudi, Ashly Burch, Imani Hakim, Jessie Ennis and Naomi Ekperigin back together under the same fluorescent office lights. The reunited team at Mythic Quest confronted new challenges amongst a changing video game landscape as stars rose, egos clashed, relationships bloomed, and everyone tried to have a little more “work work life balance”.
“Endings are hard. But after four incredible seasons, Mythic Quest is coming to a close. We’re so proud of the show and the world we got to build — and deeply grateful to every cast and crew member who poured their heart into it,” said series creators/executive producers Megan Ganz, David Hornsby and Rob McElhenney. “To all our fans, thank you for playing with us. To our partners at Apple, thank you for believing in the vision from the very beginning. Because endings are hard, with Apple’s blessing, we made one final update to our last episode — so we could say goodbye, instead of just game over.”
If you’ve watched season four already, you’ll know it ended on a cliffhanger, and was clearly not planned as a series finale. The decision from Apple to allow the creators to edit that (now) final episode is an interesting one… It wouldn’t be the first time a show has been cancelled and the creators have had to change their plans last minute to cobble together a finale. However, that usually happens before the episode is aired. This is the first time I can think of where the creators have been allowed to go back in and edit an already broadcast episode to make a somewhat more satisfying conclusion for fans. One of the “advantages” of streaming over broadcast, I guess, but it does set an interesting precedent. Could this be something we see more of in the future? Rather than leaving fans disappointed when a show is cancelled on a cliffhanger, the creators are allowed to go back and re-edit the ending?
‘Mythic Quest’ is executive produced by McElhenney and Day under their RCG banner, Michael Rotenberg and Nicholas Frenkel on behalf of 3 Arts, and Margaret Boykin, Austin Dill and Gérard Guillemot for Ubisoft Film & Television. Hornsby and Ganz also executive produce. The series is produced for Apple TV+ by Lionsgate, 3 Arts Entertainment and Ubisoft Film & Television.
All 4 Seasons of ‘Mythic Quest‘, plus the spin-off series ‘Side Quest‘, are available on Apple TV+ right now.
