So Help Me Todd: Season Three? Creator on CBS Cancellation and Efforts to Save the Series

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So Help Me Todd aired its series finale on CBS last night, and the cancelled drama series ended on a cliffhanger.

Starring Marcia Gay Harden, Skylar Astin, Madeline Wise, Tristen J. Winger, Inga Schlingmann, and Rosa Arredondo, the CBS series follows a mother (Harden) and son (Astin) after she hires him to become the in-house investigator for her law firm.

Those behind the series thought So Help Me Todd would be picked up for a third season, but when they found out it had been cancelled, it was too late to change the finale’s ending.

Creator Scott Prendergast said the following about the show’s cancellation and the cliffhanger ending, per Deadline:

“When we pitched out the season at the beginning of season two, we told all of the executives what we were going to do. They all said, ‘of course. That’s great.’ Even they thought at the time, ‘well, of course you’ll be back. Do a cliffhanger!’ We wanted to do sort of an Empire Strikes Back-y end with a dangerous note. By the time we knew that we were cancelled, it was too late. It’d been a month since we shot that episode. We found out on April 19. We wrapped production at the end of March.”

Prendergast also teased what viewers would have seen in a third season. He said:

“The feet that arrive that belong to Merritt Folding, those are my feet. I was there that day and I played the stand-in. I was the voice of Merritt Folding, which is ironic when you look back and you think, my arrival ended the show. We were going to try and cast Joe Pantoliano, who’s a friend of Marcia’s. He was going to be the big bad for season three, and Margaret was going to get in a lot of trouble, get arrested, and she would have to go to trial for all these crimes that she didn’t commit. And Todd would have to be working behind the scenes in the law firm to help clear her name. The whole family would have had to band together. And Susan [Inga Schlingmann] would come back and help her and they would all band together and figure it out.”

There is still a slight chance that So Help Me Todd could return for a third season as producers are still shopping the series to other networks. Prendergast said, “So far, we haven’t had any takers. But they’re still talking.”

What do you think? Have you enjoyed So Help Me Todd? Would you like to see the series revived for a third season?