After five seasons, Switched at Birth aired its final episode this week. Recently, creator Lizzy Weiss spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about the Freeform series finale.
The drama follows the lives of two teenage girls after it’s discovered that they ended up with the others’ families as babies at the hospital. The cast includes Katie Leclerc, Vanessa Marano, Constance Marie, D.W. Moffett, Lea Thompson, Lucas Grabeel, and Sean Berdy.
In the interview, Weiss revealed there was a series ending they shot for season four but never used:
It would have felt like a double ending. I feel like the emotion of the ending with the big wide aerial shot pulling back on the family and that song … the emotions sort of carried you, and then once we tried putting the tag on it, it stopped the emotions. And plus, it was a flashback to the hospital with the girls as newborns, and we cast 22-year-old actresses to play young Kathryn and young Regina, and it felt like a disappointment to not end on the people that the fans have spent five years with. I hope the network does release it for the fans just in a tweet or a YouTube link because it was cool, but it was something that we didn’t end up using.”
And what a revival? Weiss says it’s certainly a possibility:
If in 10 years, it is a trend, and the network or some network or all of us are interested, of course. We even joke about it now. It would be fun to revisit who everyone’s going to be in 10 years; Bay and Daphne as 35-year-olds or even 30-year-olds is just fun to think about.”
What do you think? Are you a fan of Switched at Birth? Did you enjoy the series finale?
What a great show!! Extremely sad it is over. I hope down the road there is a revival. But don’t wait 10 years, Do it in 5. Let’s make Daphne a Radiologist, Physical Therapist or Anesthesiologist, not a surgeon. As a Physical Therapist she and Mini could be working together for a professional team and engaged. Show how Toby is enjoying his new career and how their son is. Still living in the guest house and maybe Lily pregnant with their 2nd child. And as for Bay, maybe bring Ty back. Travis and Bay was cute but it didn’t flow… Read more »
I haven’t seen the last episode. The series is a very good one. Please air the last episode again and advertise the date.
Thank you.
I’m so so very upset that this was the last season I absolutely loved this show.. and further more the fact that it was asl im very disappointed in the show not airing anymore
Great series ending. I will miss the show. I think that a revival in ten years would be fun. I would love to know what happens to everyone since all of them went on their own ways.