The short-lived show Reunion, created by Jon Harmon Feldman (who also created the prematurely cancelled 2003-05 series, Tru Calling), centers on the lives of six friends. The show premiered with the murder of one of the friends at a 20-year high school reunion. The series then followed the criminal investigation in the present, while flashing back to the characters’ past — one episode covering one year of their lives, starting with 1986 and working forward to the present.
To date, nine episodes have aired and 13 have been produced. Production was halted after the show was cancelled and its 13 episode original order (up to 1998, eight years before the murder happened) were completed.
As a result, viewers were left hanging. Creator Feldman said that, because of the nature of the show, it was unlikely that the killer of Alexa Davalos’ character “Samantha” would ever be revealed.
In December, Feldman said “The show was intricately plotted over 22 episodes to tell the full story of our characters’ lives (and deaths). Because the events of Samantha’s murder are partially reliant on characters we haven’t yet met — and events we haven’t yet seen — there is no way to solve the mystery of her murder without being able to complete the full arc of our story through present-day.”
Despite an outpouring of fan support, it doesn’t look like the show will be resurrected but a FOX executive has given a clue as to the identity of who the killer was (probably) going to be.
At the recent Television Critics Association press tour, FOX Entertainment president Peter Ligouri discussed the show’s premature finish. Ligouri shared, “Reunion was particularly cumbersome in terms of trying to provide an ending for the audience. How [creator Jon Harmon Feldman] was laying out the show to gap those additional years was an incredibly complex path. There were a number of options, and he didn’t make a definitive decision on which option he was going to go with as to who the killer was, and there was just no way to accelerate that time.”
He went on to say that the network and the show’s writers talked about several options for the killer’s identity, but “the best guess was (at that particular time) that it was going to be Sam’s daughter,” whom she had given up for adoption in the first episodes. The exact reason for the murder remains a mystery.
Despite the show’s failure to find an audience (averaging 4.3 million viewers), Ligouri said FOX won’t shy away from trying unique forms of storytelling in the future.
“It is regrettable when stories end before their time. I don’t think that should stop us from being ambitious with serialized storytelling. We put these shows on and we’re going to continue to put these shows on every year with every good intention to end them, but eventually the audience votes.” 
why can’t you at least show all 13 episodes??
I think that reunion should be put back on air..it was an awsone show..kind of CSI mixed with the oc i loved it… and what is the television station thining just leaving us hang like this
pls give me back Reunion Reunion is an excellent show this not the first time to cut show like this why you don’t give back th show
I think the fox people need to pause a second and see that Reunion was cancelled almost a year ago and Still to this day people are up in arms about the show’s cancellation. If the show had no viewers then where are all these complaints comming from?? who are we? I thought the idea of the show was creative and well thought out, there should be more shows that are chronicled like that, but mostly there should be this one, brought back. Obviously intrest has not waned. We can siot through trash like the nanny and wife swap and… Read more »
Please put reunion on DVD so the fans can see what happens. Other fox shows that were cancelled were released on DVD, “Family Guy”. So why can’t Reunion be released on DVD. Please listen and hear us, the FANS………..
Reunion me parecia una excelente serie, no me parece justo que no la hayan terminado, aunque sea muestren una resolución en un capitulo o algo asi
Donde veo el ultimo capitulo, por favor
I still can’t believe you cut the show without at least giving us a clue as to who killed Sam. I think you should have skipped a couple and aired the episode where Will finds out Amy was his daughter. That would have been great.
REUNION IS, SORRY…WAS MY FAVOURITE TV SHOW! I’m from Uruguay (Latin America) and here the series is a big success. I really really really hope you consider the idea of putting reunion back on air. I can’t understand how such a good programme had low rating, I simply can’t…
reunion is the besst show it has evr appear on fox screen i jus dont get how they took it out of the air, and whats worst, leve us (fans) without knowiing who was samanta killer
Hey J – That’s what this story (at the top of the page) is about. It’s all they’ve said.
i read in an article that the killer was sam’s daughter … anyone hear anything different ?
do you know who was the killer?
Bring back Reunion on the air!
geez if It was compeated on DVD that would be something I would buy too.Great show! The Timeframe reminded me of that part of my life! I miss Reunion!
I am so upset that this television show was cancelled. I enjoyed coming home from a long day of work and sitting infront of the tv watching the show, while trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together to solve the mystery. Honestly, I can’t stand Fox 5 television shows and this was the only time I would watch the station. It is such a shame that television shows that are about something get cancelled while the other shows that go nowhere remain on the screen. Can anyone explain? Bring Reunion back!