Found Season 2 Episode 22’s Finale Leaves Gabi and Sir’s Fates Intertwined

@Sweet Amy, I very much can relate and have often felt the same way. My friends and comfort have been in television characters. Book characters, too.

I'll be incredibly annoyed if they manage to save that over Found when it hasn't done nearly as well in ratings and such. But I also wouldn't be surprised if they do. The fact that they haven't outright canceled it already speaks volumes to me.

@Jasmine Blu, hearing that you say the art of television is disappearing has me almost in tears! TV has been a lifeline for me all of my life, I get really invested in the TV shows, and the characters that are on them. When no one was there for me, for various reasons, to fill the pervading loneliness of being all by myself, TV was such a comforting companion. I don’t want reality shows, I don’t want tons of sports, or even documentaries. Just like with books, I have always preferred fictitious/scripted TV shows. An actual story that some very clever, and creative brain has come up with. I don’t even want to think about my life without shows like Found to watch. I wish there was something we could do to save Found. I have already signed a couple of petitions, but is there more that can be done, like sending letters, or packages of something to studios? NBC still hasn’t cancelled Grosse Pointe Garden Society, and I would be really upset if they renew that. It seems like NBC cares a lot more about that show than they do about Found, yet Found is leaps and bounds ahead of Grosse Pointe in quality!

@Sweet Amy, I just, there's the whole other layer of seeing the entire medium of television just slowly dying in front of our eyes like this. Like, the ART of television is just disappearing, and that upsets me so much.

@D, You're going to make me emotional, and I hate getting emotional.

I remember in the bleak days of the strikes, it was such a relief that there was a couple of scripted programs still making it to the air, and I was thrilled by this one. The cast had me excited. I was familiar with almost everyone and their work, and I loved the premise. I was so necessary.

Shanola Hampton's face card never declines. She really is stunning.

You are preaching right now expressing how important this series is and its impact. It's such a beautiful plea you just made! If you're interested in expounding on this as a contributor please let me know! It would be beautiful and the rest of the Found Fans would love it since you so perfectly encapsulated its impact and why we need this series so much, now more than ever.

It makes me smile that you got to share this show with your mom. My mom and I are close, and we watch a lot of the same TV, but Found has also been one of the shows where she's locked in with me and it gets her undivided attention every time.

I felt the same way. This series does some incredible work at giving realistic depictions of trauma and exploring it so brilliantly in all of its convoluted, messy, raw glory, and we'r losing that LOSING it too freaking BASKETBALL. I get angry every time I think about it too long.

I'm so happy you've been enjoying my Found Coverage. It's been a special show to me, and I genuinely loved covering it and talking about it. Sometimes I never knew if anyone was paying attention or really cared, but I couldn't give up talking about it because I loved it so much. Thank you for this comment. Again, you have me emotional.

@D, I understand how you feel. I love Found, and I was distraught when I saw the news that NBC cancelled it. I cried out a loud NO! Prior to the surprise cancellation, it looked like a lock-in for renewal. I am mad that we are losing this incredible show to basketball. I like basketball, but rarely watch it. I mean don’t we have a gazillion sports channels that they could show that on? NBCUniversal is paying $2.5 billion per year for an 11-year NBA media rights deal, if they claim to be suffering financially. If shows aren’t cancelled, then actress and actresses are fired to save money, or sidelined in multiple episodes to save money. So, I don’t believe their excuse of financial woes for a second. This is all because of greed, corporate greed. I already spent a fortune on numerous streaming channels, but it Found is rightly picked up by another network, I will follow it wherever it goes.

@Sweet Amy, You're always the best, and it brightens my day when I see your name in the comments below!

I'm so mad about the is cancelation. I need someone to pick it up somewhere. It's a perfect show for cable or streaming. I don't even care where it goes, just give it to me! It has way too many stories still left to tell.

Jamie really grew on me, too! I started out wary of him, but now I love what he brings to the team, and that he's this unofficial member. I really like his connection with Gabi and that we're basically seeing in person the origins of that connection survivors have with her.

@Ramona Robinson, Found would be AMAZING on streaming. It's the perfect show for it because, you're right, Dhan would definitely have a potty mouth. It can get a bit darker with the Sir stuff and the cases, and the shortened season formatting works best for Found. It should be 10-13 episodes tops -- it can't handle 22 episodes, that's too much, we'd get tighter writing.

I'll admit to sometimes being a bitter, bitter Dhan fan because he's my favorite character. Outside of Lacey, he's clearly the one who has the deepest and longest history with Gabi. To ME, it made sense to explore that sooner rather than later to give some perspective to just how deep that bond is and why that type of loyalty is there. It shatters my heart that I'll never see my favorite character's background with his captivity nor the origins of his bond with Gabi. And that also goes for Zeke whose abduction is fascinating in that family took him and he never told his father that it was his uncle.

Dhan has been such a mystery. They sprinkle in bits and pieces. I think they did tell us back in the first season, briefly, that he was a POW for two or three years. We knew it was a long time. I think they added in more about Mike's addiction issues resulting in the botched mission and leading to that etc. But I would give anything to see that story and Karan Oberoi absolutely slaying those flashbacks.

They did a bit of Lacey in the beginning of the season, but most of it was kid Lacey and not adult Lacey, and then from almost the midpoint onward it's been all Margaret and Jamie. I loved getting to see Margaret's story and finding Jamie, I just hate that it consumed so much of the plot this season and took over. Lacey and Zeke got horribly sidelined. Dhan only benefitted from being Gabi's righthand, but he never got much of a real plot on his own and then they finally introduce Mike and all of this in the finale.

I think that for a series that focuses so much on the trauma of survivors, and this is no disrespect to Margaret, it has sometimes frustrated me that she gets centered so much in the narrative when I wish we got to see more survivor stories. Like, I had to chuckle when she was reprimanding Darryl, when at the beginning of the season when she browbeat Gabi for way too long, all I kept thinking is that Margaret understands LOSS but not the specific trauma of captivity, and that was a story that needs to be centered more.

Yess! I felt the same as Gabi confessed. I was a bit frustrated because we already saw how the others treated her for most of the season. It wasn't lost on me that Margaret and Trent were the hardest and most relentless in shredding her and lacking empathy.

The world doesn't often see Black women as victims or survivors. All they saw was powerful Gabi Mosely, and they'll tear her to shreds after that admission. I NEED this show on air in some capacity, I'm so heartbroken about losing this before the stories are finished. I haven't been able to really give it words yet.

Thanks Ramona! It's been a pleasure, and I've loved reading your thoughts as well!

@Q, Yeah, I thought as far as this serving as a series finale, it worked well enough. There's enough there for if someone saves the series and we get more, but if this is the end, it still works.

Mike took it like a G, and I respect that. And Dhan would've gone in for more if they didn't hold him back. I'm kicking myself for realizing after the fact that Henri Esteve played Mike. He's such a good actor and decent guy. I've interviewed him before, and I would've loved to have seen him stick around for the Dhan plot I'm pissed I never got to see.

They said they had to practice filming that a few times, and once he actually landed hard on the floor or something.

I've never had an issue with Margaret being flawed. It's what has always made he interesting, and I particularly love that there is more space onscreen for women in particularly to be just flawed, messy beings instead of "perfect" or meeting impossible expectations.

My only real criticism when it comes to Margaret is that the series likes to act like she's right all of the time rather than recognizing that she's sometimes flawed and wrong, and that's fine.

She's still self-righteous with her husband, and they even go as far as making HIM always seem like he's the bad guy and not entitled to just as much hurt, pain, and anger as Margaret in this whole situation. Or it's how easily the girls just forgave her because she was validated about Jamie, which didn't feel realistic to me. I like Margaret, I just struggle sometimes with the series just not letting her stand in being wrong or whatever.

Like Dhan is judgemental AF and wrong often, and he gets called on it. They spent the first half of the season flogging Gabi within an inch of her life. Zeke gets overly emotional etc, and we see that, he gets called on that, it's never shown as if he's right for being that way, and it's treated like a flaw. Trent is quick to judgment and we've seen how that impacts his relationships with other characters and his policing.