It has been a big final season for television, between South Side sagas, teen treasure hunts, kitchen chaos, and a little Staten Island magic. Nine of the season’s biggest shows are all bidding farewell around the same time, and mostly on their own terms. A show like Survival of the Thickest could have gone a few more seasons, and an animated series like The Proud Family never really has to leave the air, but each of these got to close out however they wanted, with the cast, creators, and showrunners who built them seeing it through. Some have already aired their last episode, others are still in the middle of their final run as the year goes on, but all nine spent this summer saying their goodbyes.
Euphoria
Sam Levinson’s HBO lightning rod closed out its run this year, and true to form, it did not go quietly. Season 3, an eight episode run that premiered April 12 and wrapped May 31, 2026, jumped its East Highland teens five years into the future, trading high school hallways for the messier terrain of adulthood. HBO confirmed the same day the finale dropped that the series had concluded after three seasons. Levinson created, wrote and showran every episode, and the ensemble he built around Zendaya’s Rue Bennett became a career making roster in its own right.
The Chi
Lena Waithe’s South Side drama earned the rare privilege of a planned ending. Season 8, confirmed as the final chapter back in October 2025, premiered May 24 and closed out its ten episode run on July 26, 2026 on Paramount+. Justin Hillian has run the show since 2019, but Waithe’s fingerprints remain all over its DNA, an ensemble driven portrait of Chicago that resisted easy stereotypes about the neighborhoods it was set in.
Survival of the Thickest
Michelle Buteau’s Netflix comedy wrapped its run with a third and final season that premiered July 2, 2026, after production closed out in February. Buteau co-created the series with Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, building it out of her own autobiographical essays, and stars as Mavis Beaumont, the stylist rebuilding her life and career after a blindsiding divorce. The final season sends Mavis out alongside Tone Bell, Tasha Smith and Garcelle Beauvais.
Power Book III: Raising Kanan
The Power prequel that turned Mekai Curtis and Patina Miller into must watch television closed out its five season run this summer. Created and showran by Sascha Penn, with Courtney A. Kemp and 50 Cent among the executive producers, the series traced Kanan Stark’s coming of age inside his mother Raq’s 1990s Southeast Queens drug operation. Season 5 premiered June 12, 2026, and the finale, recapped by trade press in early August, closes out the origin story before the timeline catches up with the character audiences already knew from the original Power. The ensemble includes London Brown, Malcolm Mays, Joey Bada$$, Hailey Kilgore, Omar Epps and Wendell Pierce.
All American
Nkechi Okoro Carroll’s CW drama, developed by April Blair and loosely inspired by NFL player Spencer Paysinger’s life, is closing out an eighth and final season that kicked off July 13, 2026. The show has weathered real cast turnover in its back half, including lead Daniel Ezra exiting as a series regular after Season 6, but Carroll has steered it toward a deliberate ending rather than an abrupt cutoff. The cast taking their final lap includes Bre-Z, Greta Onieogou, Samantha Logan, Michael Evans Behling, Cody Christian and Taye Diggs.
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
Bruce W. Smith and Ralph Farquhar’s Disney+ revival, a genuine passion project a generation in the making, is wrapping with a fourth and final season that premiered July 29, 2026. Kyla Pratt, Tommy Davidson, Paula Jai Parker, Jo Marie Payton and Cedric the Entertainer all return to voice the Proud family one last time, alongside Keke Palmer. Smith and Farquhar first built this world more than two decades ago, and the final season closes out both the revival and, in effect, the whole Proud Family era.
The Bear
Christopher Storer’s FX/Hulu kitchen drama took its final bow with an eight episode Season 5 that dropped in full on June 25, 2026. What started as a story about grief and inherited debt turned into one of the decade’s most decorated shows, and Storer closed it out with the same cast that built it: Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Abby Elliott and Matty Matheson. Carmy’s arc, from a chef trying to save his brother’s sandwich shop to running a genuine fine dining kitchen, gets its actual ending here, rather than another cliffhanger season.
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place
Disney Channel’s sequel series to the original Wizards of Waverly Place closed out with a four part series finale event that premiered August 4, 2026. Developed by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas, with characters originally created by Todd J. Greenwald, the show picked up fifteen years after the original series, following Justin Russo (David Henrie) training a new young wizard, Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown), while raising a family of his own on Staten Island. The final episodes brought Selena Gomez back as Alex Russo, this time behind the camera too, marking her directorial debut on the first episode of the finale event. The returning cast includes Alkaio Thiele, Max Matenko, Taylor Cora and Mimi Gianopulos.
Outer Banks
The Pate brothers, Josh and Jonas, and Shannon Burke’s Netflix phenomenon just began its actual goodbye. Season 5, confirmed as the final season back in November 2024, premiered August 20, 2026, after the cast wrapped filming in December and posted the kind of emotional send offs that come with ending a show that made them all famous. Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Madison Bailey, Jonathan Daviss and Rudy Pankow lead the Pogues through their last treasure hunt. Netflix is not done with Kildare County, though: a prequel series is already in development, so this ending comes with a built in “to be continued.”