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By Maureen Ryan
Updated: Sep 23, 2019 11:25 pm
Posted: Sep 21, 2019 3:00 am
TV is bursting with reboots and revivals — so when are we returning to the Killjoys universe?
Well, all right, if you want to be a literal killjoy about it, it’s over. On Friday, Syfy aired the show’s romantic, action-packed and very satisfying series finale. And that appears to be that. But if you’ve been watching Killjoys faithfully, you are probably like most fans of Team Awesome Force — you want all these people to come back to your screen immediately.
It doesn't look like that’s going to happen, according to creator and executive producer Michelle Lovretta, who has other projects on her plate (though in the interview below, she doesn’t rule out comics, novelizations and the like). So at this point, we must focus on what we did get: Yalena “Dutch” Yardeen (Hannah John-Kamen), Johnny Jaqobis (Aaron Ashmore) and D’avin Jaqobis (Luke Macfarlane) were a badass, quippy, wonderfully entertaining trio for the ages. The show’s core group of actors had the kind of rapport and chemistry that is all too rare, and Killjoys took what was so clear on the screen and ran with it for five whole seasons. Add in sly space villains, riotous prison ships, daring heists, messed-up families, unlikely romances and too many dangerous adventures to list, and, well, what more could a person want out of a TV show?
Dutch, D’av and Johnny started out as unlikely buddies serving warrants in the Quad, a tough corner of space where bounty hunters — and just about everyone else — had to scramble to survive. But the show became a story about carving out a place to feel free and creating a patchwork family who would celebrate exactly who you were, even if they occasionally drove you nuts — or tried to murder you. (We’ve all been there, right?)
Each actor brought crisp, committed delivery as well as depth and nuance to their roles, and what could have been just another space adventure story, over time, grew to contain surprising poignance and emotional weight. Thanks to the game, intelligent energy the cast brought to their work, and to the writers, crew and directors who wove quips, distinctive world-building and action seamlessly into a witty yet earnest story about rebellion and the desire to overthrow all kinds of oppression, Killjoys didn’t take long to become must-see TV for me.
And the finale — in which Team Awesome Force defeated the Lady and found love and celebration with each other — was the frosting on the intergalactic cake. It’s a tribute to the vividly entertaining work of everyone involved — including Lovretta and executive producer Adam Barken (who took over showrunner duties in seasons 4 and 5) — that I already miss this crew so damn much.
Earlier this week, I spoke to Lovretta about the ending of Killjoys, Dutch’s journey, the growth of Team Awesome Force, the way the series finale subverted TV tropes and what Lovretta might be doing next. What follows is an edited transcript of our chat — and, of course, spoilers ahoy!
IGN: You had two seasons to plan the ending [after season three, Killjoys was renewed for two final seasons]. Is that something you lobbied for?
ML: I don't think anybody ever gets to lobby for two seasons, to be honest. You don't get to lobby for much. There's never a guarantee. A lot of showrunners grapple with [not knowing if a show will be renewed] every season. I certainly grappled with it as well. But there's also something that is a bit liberating about that process, because every finale I've ever written, I've had to go into with the understanding that this could be the last episode. In a weird way, it's an interesting and fertile training ground for writing the real [series finale].
But when we did finally find out that we had the 20 [episodes to end Killjoys], it was sort of a terrifying grace. You are used to a certain metric, you're used to a certain rhythm. And 10 [episodes] always felt a little bit small for our show, because we were trying to incorporate episodic adventures and world-building and serialization. It was this really interesting melting pot of all these forms of story. So it's a lot to jam in, and 20 is certainly more ground than we're used to.
IGN: Did you have ideas about the ending for a long time, or was it something you came up with along the way?
IGN: Clearly, the core of Killjoys is the three lead characters, but you now have a dozen characters around them that are memorable and are very different from each other. Was moving toward that kind of ensemble always the intent, or a spontaneous thing that arose because of what the actors and the writers found with the characters?
ML: It’s a combination. I don't think it's ever accidental. I do think there's this particular quirk to my personality, to my preferences and to my storytelling where I'm really interested in getting to know people. That's what I'm honestly in this for. I want to sit in a safe, confined space with a computer screen and just really get to know people I don't know in the real world. There's a lot of that adage, “Write what you know,” but I don't want to write just about what I know, and I don't want to write just about who I know. I want to explore how conventions and experiences I've had might be fielded by people who are stronger, weaker, smarter — what have you — than I am.
IGN: It’s not that there are no science-fiction shows on TV, but it’s pretty rare to find shows that are set on other planets and in which the characters are regularly on space ships. Why do you think that is?
ML: Usually part of the problem with selling those sorts of shows — it’s the same as saying you want to make a period costume series. The drain on production, the cost, and creating all those worlds in VFX — it just makes it a riskier prospect. So I understand that on the business end, there's always just a bit of hesitance. You have to work a little bit harder to sell that this is a world that will be loved. I think that it's a little bit easier always in television when you stay to the procedural [side of things]. I've never really been able to fully understand why. In a weird way, it's important for me to not understand, because I don't ever come up with a story with an idea that there's a market for it. I come up with these stories because I want to tell them to myself. If I delve too much into the analytics of what will sell and what won’t, well, I never would've said, how about a show about a succubus [“Lost Girl”] and how about a these people in a space ship?
IGN: Would you have gone for longer had that been an option? Do you think that the story got told, or do you wish you had more seasons?
ML: I loved having the last two seasons and I loved knowing [that was it]. A lot of times what happens when you have two seasons is, it makes sense for everybody to sort of compact them and [shoot] them together. So the pace increases. You go a bit faster. You do a little bit more with a little bit less, and that's just the norm. I think that we all would have wanted exactly what we got and five seasons was correct. If we'd had a little bit more time between seasons, that that would have just been a little less wear and tear and on our
IGN: Speaking of the end, I loved the imagery of the doll and the idea that Dutch was no longer being manipulated by anyone. Was that a cathartic thing for you to work toward — Dutch being finally free in her own mind and in reality?
ML: Yeah, it was an important moment to me. A lot of what I write ends up [being about] consent and agency. Those issues are really important to me and to my characters, so we would come at that from different vantage points throughout the season. But you have this one lead character that you're taking that journey with — Dutch.
It was a nice and, I think, necessary moment to show myself, to show Dutch, to show to the audience that she really had come full circle. She felt very empowered. She felt strong, she felt unafraid of the Lady and the situation that she's in now. And she didn't feel that she had to be forced to make the kind of moves that she would have made as an assassin. The Dutch that [we see at the end] is as close as we can get to who Dutch would have been if she hadn't been manipulated so much all her life. And it was a pleasure to meet that Dutch by the end.
IGN: Obviously there were a bunch of Team Awesome Force adventures in the finale, but there was so much love, including Dutch finally telling D’avin she loved him.
ML: Yep. I've told this story before, but when we were ending season three — there's always that burnout when you're at the end of the season, when you're running on fumes. I found that [originally], at the end of that season, I was leaving everybody in these really dire cliffhangers where it kind of looked like everybody was going die. I had this really great chat with my network exec, who was basically like, "Are you sure you want to do that?" Because nobody ever knows at that stage if you're coming back, and it just didn't feel — I don't know how to say it — but it didn't feel like it had a kindness to it.
What was so great about rewriting those last beats of season three, so that they had some comedy and a little bit of my lightness to them (which had been missing) — I was remembering that as I wrote this very last episode. I gave myself that same conversation, and I was like, "You want to leave these people where you're happy and it's okay that they're happy, even if that's potentially unconventional.” So, I wrote to make myself feel a little bit of joy. and if nothing else, that probably comes through.
Sep 1, 2017 · Just before its third season finale airs on Friday, Syfy has announced the two-season pickup for Killjoys.The two-season, 20-episode pickup will serve as the final chapters of the popular space drama.
Sep 1, 2017 · Syfy is plotting an endgame for Killjoys. The NBCUniversal cabler has renewed the sci-fi series for two final seasons, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The 20-episode pickup for seasons four ...
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