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Why NCIS: Hawaii likely isn't going to be saved (despite us wanting it!)

There is no doubt that we want more NCIS: Hawaii. From a realistic point of view, though, we need to prepare for it not to be saved.

ByAlexandria Ingham|
“Dies Irae” – When a figure from Tennant’s CIA past reemerges, the NCIS team seeks help from the most unlikely place in order to catch a killer who threatens to destroy everything Tennant has built, on the conclusion to the two-part second season finale of the CBS Original series NCIS: HAWAI’I, Monday, May 22 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+*. Pictured: Vanessa Lachey as Jane Tennant and Noah Mills as Jesse Boone.
“Dies Irae” – When a figure from Tennant’s CIA past reemerges, the NCIS team seeks help from the most unlikely place in order to catch a killer who threatens to destroy everything Tennant has built, on the conclusion to the two-part second season finale of the CBS Original series NCIS: HAWAI’I, Monday, May 22 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+*. Pictured: Vanessa Lachey as Jane Tennant and Noah Mills as Jesse Boone.

I’m not happy that NCIS: Hawaii has been canceled after three seasons. This wasn’t a cancellation I expected this year, and I would love to see more of it. The problem is I’m a realist.

Shows are canceled every year, and only a handful of them are ever saved from that fate now and then. I don’t think NCIS: Hawaii is going to be one of those shows saved.

It doesn’t sound like NCIS: Hawaii is being shopped around

Let’s just start with the fact that it doesn’t sound like this is a series that is putting up a fight. There are no signs that it’s being shopped around, and if it isn’t shopped around, it’s not going to be saved. We just have to look at the noise that the shows have made in the past to land a new home. The Expanse, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Magnum PI all had the shows fighting hard.

The cast of NCIS: Hawaii is gearing up for the Season 3 finale to be the series finale. They are all saying goodbye on social media.

The series is part of a major franchise

Being part of a major franchise can be a blessing and a curse. In the blessing sense, it does offer hope that shows will get to continue or that we’ll get to hear or see characters on other shows. Just look at how LL Cool J moved into Hawaii after Los Angeles’s cancellation and how Kensi Blye turned up in the 1000th episode of the entire universe.

The curse is that it usually means a show isn’t saved from cancellation. It’s harder to keep the franchise element to it when it goes to another home. The only place that it would have made sense would have been Paramount+, but surely if it was going to be saved there, that would have happened immediately.

The season finale isn’t set up with a major cliffhanger

While a lot of shows end with a cliffhanger with the hope of enticing networks to renew them, that doesn’t seem to be the case with Hawaii. The show is going to leave a few things open-ended with a hint of where things could have gone, but there isn’t a cliffhanger to resolve.

It doesn’t mean a life is going to be left on the line forever. Nor should we see a character facing capture, such as when Gibbs and McGee were captured at the end of a season of the flagship series. There is hope that there will be enough closure to say goodbye to the characters.

I would love to see NCIS: Hawaii saved. Please, don’t get me wrong. I’m just being realistic to get ready for the end to be the end.

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