Is there a release date for Found Season 3? Here’s what we know

If you've been refreshing your feed hoping for a Found Season 3 release date, sit down for this one! NBC's missing-persons drama Found is officially no more. The network has slammed the door on a third season, and attempts to revive it elsewhere have come up empty. So, Season 3 has been called off.

After two seasons in which Shanola Hampton played recovery specialist Gabi Mosely, who was haunted by her own kidnapping, Found built itself as one of the most quietly appealing thrillers on TV networks. The show fused gut-churning twists with personal narratives in a routine and healing way.

Unfortunately, what could have been an even more explosive Season 3 was cut short when NBC decided to cancel just before the Season 2 finale.

Why is there no Found Season 3?

To rewind a little, it started strong. In an era of streaming fatigue, it did well for a new NBC drama, bringing in 10.5 million viewers when it premiered in the fall of 2023, as Collider reported. It was hard to turn away from Season 1's suspense, social commentary, and morally questionable decisions.

The audience was fascinated by Gabi's covert underground vigilante activities, which included keeping her former kidnapper, Hugh "Sir" Evans (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), locked up and using his skills to track down more victims.

Things were going just fine until they weren't. By the end of Season 1, the ratings started dipping. Season 2 did pick up a little momentum, averaging 6.2 million viewers, but in the ruthless world of network television, that just wasn't enough. NBC reportedly attributed the decision to declining ratings and "financial recalibration." There's only so much primetime real estate.

With an NBA deal on the horizon, the network needed room, and Found, along with Suits: L.A. and The Irrational, became collateral damage.

For a while, fans stayed hopeful that Found might get rescued by Peacock, Netflix, or any streamer with a pulse. After all, stranger resurrections have happened in TV land. (Manifest, anyone?) But that hope flickered out when TV Line's Matt Webb Mitovich confirmed the show had officially failed to find a new home.

So no, there won't be a Season 3, no matter how much closure that emotionally wrecking Season 2 finale begged for.

That Season 2 finale, though!

If you saw the Season 2 finale, you know it went out swinging. In true Found fashion, the episode delivered kidnapping drama, cleansing, and one confession. Gabi publicly admitted to holding Sir captive for nine months, flipping the show's moral compass upside down.

In the meantime, Sir was discovered lying in a pool of blood in his prison cell, unconscious. What a cliffhanger!

The lingering spark between Zeke and Lacey, Gabi's moral decisions, and Lena's risky familial ties were all naturally set up for new arcs by creator Nkechi Okoro Carroll (who also gave us All-American). All of that now exists in the void of "what could've been" since Found was canceled.

Added to its crime-of-the-week format, Found made viewers think about challenging topics of trauma and justice. The audience got to consider whether wanting revenge is ever really morally justified after Gabi's basement secret made it tough to tell the difference between savior and captor. That moral complexity, paired with Hampton and Gosselaar's electric performances, made the show far more nuanced than an average procedural.

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Now, fans hope another network will help "find" the show again. Because if we've learned anything from it, nothing stays buried forever.

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