Producers Call “Chuck” Finale “Epic”

Tonight after five seasons, Chuck comes to a close.

But with the show on the renewal bubble for much of its life, you’d think producers Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak would be used to coming up with finales for the spy dramedy.

They may be, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t get nervous about doing the series finale right.  In fact, Fedak says he and Schwartz had a “daily panic attack” when it came to crafting the final run of episodes.

“We have essentially an epic finale for you guys, and it’s going to be different than anything we’ve ever done before on the Chuck show,” said Fedak. “We knew that we were building toward our final episode, and we really wanted to put together something special.”

The two-episode finale begins with “Chuck Versus Sarah” and then ends with the appropriately named “Chuck Versus the Goodbye.” “Everything is at stake. It’s like all of our characters are at a crossroad, and it’s going to be interesting to see how it all falls out. But it’s definitely the biggest thing we’ve ever done on the Chuck show,” said Fedak.

“All the finales that we’ve built, therefore, we were hoping to come back. And so we wrote them in such a way that they implied a big new season coming next year or in a few weeks,” said Fedak.

“And this time we knew that this was going to be our final episode. When NBC picked us up, they were very clear that this was going to be a 13-episode run and that this would be our final season. So when we started working on the finale, when we were writing it, it was much more like ‘This will be the final chapter.’ This will be the final moment of this show, and we need to resolve these stories that we’ve been working on for five seasons now. And the finale isn’t so much a finale just for season five. It’s a finale to five seasons of the show. So it’s definitely different,” he added.

The series finale of Chuck airs tonight on NBC.