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Chicago Fire questions likely to be unanswered in season 8

By Brittany Frederick

CHICAGO FIRE -- "Protect a Child" Episode 817 -- Pictured: (l-r) Alberto Rosende as Blake Gallo, Eamonn Walker as Wallace Boden, Jesse Spencer as Matthew Casey -- (Photo by: Adrian S. Burrows Sr./NBC)
CHICAGO FIRE -- "Protect a Child" Episode 817 -- Pictured: (l-r) Alberto Rosende as Blake Gallo, Eamonn Walker as Wallace Boden, Jesse Spencer as Matthew Casey -- (Photo by: Adrian S. Burrows Sr./NBC) /
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CHICAGO FIRE — “Where We End Up” Episode 811 — Pictured: (l-r) Taylor Kinney as Kelly Severide, Jesse Spencer as Matthew Casey, Christian Stolte as Randy “Mouch” McHolland — (Photo by: Adrian Burrows/NBC) /

3. Is there going to be another cliffhanger?

One Chicago fans know that Chicago Fire loves its cliffhangers. Almost every season finale and many of the midseason finales have ended with cliffhangers. But having one to end this season requires getting to the season finale—and we know from what showrunner Derek Haas has said on Twitter that the show didn’t even start production on the finale prior to the shutdown.

It’s a near impossibility that we’re going to see the end of Chicago Fire season 8 as originally planned. According to Haas, multiple episodes hadn’t been filmed when production stopped. So in order to film and complete (don’t forget post-production) the finale, they’d need at least a month or two of time. With the current state of TV production, many shows aren’t coming back at all, let alone for two whole months.

With those logistics, whatever cliffhanger Haas may have teed up at the end is probably going to be held onto for next season or scrapped altogether. After all, you can’t have a cliffhanger if you also haven’t had the chance to show the events that lead into it. There would be no context for whatever awesomely insane idea was on the table. Instead, whatever ends the season will be the ending of what should have been a regular episode.

It’s possible there’s still something that happens there (a regular episode for Chicago Fire can still be crazy), but it’s not going to be on the scale that viewers expect from a finale. The show simply ran out of time, and there’s nothing that the writers, producers or anyone else can do about it. The silver lining is the ideas don’t expire, so expect the resourceful Haas to figure out some way to make this all work in season 9.

dark. Next. Chicago PD likely won't answer these questions

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