CBS announced it was not renewing the series past the season 5 finale days before it aired on May 4 Warning: This post contains spoilers for the series finale of The Equalizer. The Equalizer ended with an action-packed series finale on May 4 The episode didn't end with a cliffhanger,

For Latifah, however, the show “blew past every dream we had for it,” calling its five-season run “surreal.” Latifah did not use her Instagram post to encourage fans to write their local streamer services about reviving the series.