Issa Rae announces end of Insecure with fifth and final season as she acknowledges the ‘tremendous support of our audience’
Her popular HBO show is coming to an end.
And Issa Rae announced the end of Insecure with a fifth and final season slated for the cable giant, according to Deadline.
The Emmy nominated comedy debuted in 2016 and shows a Black female experience as two best friends navigate life, love and careers after college.
Done: Issa Rae announced the end of Insecure with a fifth and final season slated for the cable giant, according to Deadline; seen in February 2020
Based on her web series, Awkward Black Girl, Issa created the series with Larry Wilmore and worked alongside showrunner Prentice Penny.
‘Prentice and I are so grateful that HBO believed in our show from the beginning and kept faith in us to see our vision through the end,’ she told Deadline.
‘We always planned to tell this story through five seasons, but we couldn’t have made it this far without the tremendous support of our audience.’
Done: The Emmy nominated comedy debuted in 2016 and shows a Black female experience as two best friends navigate life, love and careers after college
She tweeted on Wednesday: ‘Very excited to film our fifth and final season! We couldn’t have told a complete story without the tremendous support of our audience and the faith of @HBO. See ya’ll soon! #InsecureHBO’
It’s unclear when the final season will air, but production is rumored to begin later this month.
She tweeted on Wednesday: ‘Very excited to film our fifth and final season! We couldn’t have told a complete story without the tremendous support of our audience and the faith of @HBO. See ya’ll soon! #InsecureHBO’
‘Issa Rae has turned insecurity into an iconic form of comedy,’ Amy Gravitt, Executive Vice President of HBO Programming, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Based on her web series, Awkward Black Girl, Issa created the series with Larry Wilmore and worked alongside showrunner Prentice Penny
‘The show is as incisive as it is heartfelt, and it has resonated strongly with its audience because of the deeply personal work that Issa, Prentice, Melina, the cast and the writers have put into it.
This talented team has conceived a brilliant final season for Insecure and we look forward to having many more stories to tell with this singular group of collaborators.’
The Golden Globe nominated series debuted on HBO in October 2016 and concluded its fourth season with a finale which aired in June.
‘Prentice and I are so grateful that HBO believed in our show from the beginning and kept faith in us to see our vision through the end,’ she told Deadline