When iZombie Season 4 was being written and produced, nobody knew if the series would get another season. Thankfully, the finale could have been the perfect series finale. It’s always a relief as a fan to know that producers and writers have our backs. When iZombie Season 4 was being written and produced, there was no confirmation from The CW that there would be another season. In fact, it took until May 2018 for the network to finally make a decision (and thankfully renew it for a fifth and final season). However, Rob Thomas and co. planned ahead and made sure the Season 4 finale would have been a perfect series finale. Caution: There are spoilers in this post. A sense of closure for all characters Thomas managed to keep the storylines for each of the characters open for a potential fifth season. However, he didn’t leave us with a massive cliffhanger that would have us guessing his plans for that fifth season had it not happened. By the end of iZombie Season 4, there was a sense of closure for many of the characters. Chase Graves is gone with Major taking his place. Because of this, he’s able to give Blaine a semi-happy ending storyline (although there are questions of whether he deserves it) by making it clear that Blaine and Don-E are needed. Meanwhile, Clive and Dale got married and Liv did the one thing she could to make their love story complete: gave up her chance to be human again so Dale could be. And you could see the emotions from both Dale and Clive as Liv sacrificed her future and her happiness to make them happy. Despite both sacrificing their humanity to be together, it was clear neither of them wanted this. As for Liv, well, she doesn’t get a perfectly happy ending. Yet again, she had to say a permanent goodbye to her boyfriend. Yes, Levon was killed by the guillotine as many of us feared and expected. However, she’s trying to move on. Just as it looked like her moving on meant giving up being Renegade, everyone else came through to stop her. They showed that humans and zombies can work together under the right leadership. Meanwhile, Ravi has now lost the brain for his cure (because apparently the whole thing needed to be eaten rather than just a little like the rat needed to eat with no explanation as to why) but he and Peyton are happy together. For the most part, there’s happiness. We could go off satisfied that there was a brighter future for the walled Seattle. Watch your favorite shows on fuboTV: Watch over 67 live sports and entertainment channels with a 7-day FREE trial! Yet there’s a storyline for iZombie Season 5 Despite this closure, there are still questions and storylines for a fifth season. After all, not everything was perfect and we didn’t get a complete end to the series. We just got the start of a new story. This time it’s one that includes hope. The government may have stopped the shipment of brains to New Seattle, but the residents inside the wall aren’t just going to stop. Major has found a way around the situation and he’s doing what is right for all, instead of acting out of fear. Of course, there are many potential problems. We may have issues from the outside, as there could be a crackdown on the black market trade for brains. There could be issues within Fillmore-Graves with Major now in command (surely not everyone would have been happy about this). Liv’s smuggling operation will still continue. There will be the backlash from the number of murdered zombie cult. And there is still that question of the cure. Blaine still has the cure. Will Ravi and Liv ever find out to give Ravi the chance to create something? Will Major be able to offer funds to help Ravi create a vaccine or cure that really works? iZombie Season 4 finale certainly worked as a series finale. I’m thankful that Thomas gave us an ending that would have been satisfying to the story if The CW had canceled it abruptly. But now I’m looking forward to the final season. Seeing this ending gives me hope that the fifth season is going to be epic and the perfect ending to this zom-rom-com. Were you satisfied with the iZombie Season 4 finale? What questions do you want answered in Season 5? Share your thoughts in the comments below. iZombie Season 5 premieres in 2019 on The CW.<doc-sep>It’s official. The CW’s comedies Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend will end after their upcoming fifth and fourth seasons, respectively. Additionally, the network revealed this season that the upcoming fifth season of comedic drama iZombie also will be its last, making for string of farewells on the CW next season. It will start with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which is on the fall schedule, and continue in midseason with Jane the Virgin and iZombie. The announcement is not a surprise. Ahead of Jane the Virgin‘s fifth season renewal, star Gina Rodriguez had referred to a then-potential Season 5 as “our final season,” while Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star/co-creator Rachel Bloom tweeted after its pickup, “Just found out that #CrazyExGirlfriend has been renewed for a final season.” Meanwhile, iZombie was probably the bubbliest of the CW established series and in danger of cancellation over its ratings performance but clinched a renewal so its passionate core fan base can get a proper farewell — something the CW has done consistently with all of its long-running series. . Jane the Virgin stars Rodriguez as Jane, along with Andrea Navedo, Justin Baldoni, Yael Groblas, Ivonne Coll and Jaime Camil. The series is produced by CBS TV Studios and Warner Bros. TV in association with Electus. Jennie Snyder Urman, Ben Silverman, Brad Silberling, Jorge Granier, Gary Pearl, Lewis Abel and Paul Sciarrotta executive produce. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend stars Bloom as Rebecca Bunch, along with Vincent Rodriguez III, Donna Lynn Champlin, Pete Gardner, Vella Lovell, Gabrielle Ruiz, Scott Michael Foster and David Hull. The series is produced by CBS TV Studios and Warner Bros. TV. Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna, Erin Ehrlich, Marc Webb, Michael Hitchcock and Sarah Caplan executive produce. In iZombie, Olivia “Liv” Moore (Rose McIver) was a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out…until the night she attended a party that unexpectedly turned into a zombie feeding frenzy. Malcolm Goodwin, Rahul Kohli, Robert Buckley, David Anders and Aly Michalka also star. iZombie is produced by Warner Bros. Television. Rob Thomas, Diane Ruggiero-Wright, Danielle Stokdyk and Dan Etheridge serve as executive producers.<doc-sep>
“iZombie” executive producer Rob Thomas said that Season 5 of the CW series will continue to build on the fame Liv and Major both earned last season. “Before we broke Season 4, we talked about how the danger of opening up the world so that there are 10,000 zombies now in Seattle rather than eight, or however many there had been in previous seasons, was that it made Liv (Rose McIver) less special,” Thomas told TVLine. “We don’t want her to be just a random zombie. We wanted her to be more than that. So one of the quests this year (Season 4) was [to] believably turn Liv into a folk hero. That was very much by design, and we’re not going to drop that going into Season 5. We’re going to play that out.” With Major (Robert Buckley) being the new commander of Fillmore-Graves, Thomas said that Liv’s former fiancé is also “going to have quite a bit of notoriety.” “Our characters are in some positions of power right now,” the exec producer pointed out. “Liv now has this folk hero status, Major is going to be heading Fillmore-Graves. Until Seattle elects a new mayor, Peyton (Aly Michalka) is sort of keeping all the plates spinning, at least in the city. And then we’ve got the doctor (Rahul Kohli’s Ravi) [who is] probably most likely to come up with some cure for zombieism.” Though the Season 4 finale ended with Liv and Major’s relationship still strained, Thomas assured fans that the exes’ ultimate fate as a couple will be answered by the end of the next season. “That I can promise, that there will be a resolution,” Thomas said. “I don’t know what that resolution will be yet, but it will feel resolved. And that was always one of those things that you’re going to hold in your back pocket until your final season and figure it out then.” As announced by the CW earlier this month, Season 5 is the show’s final run. But in his interview with TVLine, Thomas said that next season wasn’t supposed to be the last one. “We could have gone longer,” the exec producer said. “But we are pretty pleased to be coming back for a fifth [season]. We got by by the skin of our teeth this year, and I would have been incredibly heartbroken if we had not gotten to do another one, because we would not have ended up leaving everything in a resolved place.” Will you be watching Season 5 of “iZombie”? Sound off in the comments section below!