After a four-season run, it’s game over for Mythic Quest.
Per Variety, the Apple TV+ series was canceled two weeks after its season finale in March. To reflect the show’s official end, Apple’s releasing an updated finale episode next week that’ll feature a brand new conclusion. Even so, the news probably comes as a shock to those who watched it, since it’s one of Apple TV+’s first shows ever, and could be considered a fixture of the streaming service.
“Endings are hard,” wrote executive producers David Hornsby, Megan Ganz, and Rob McElhenney. We’re so proud of the show and the world we got to build—and deeply grateful to every cast and crew member who poured their heart into it. To all our fans, thank you for playing with us. To our partners at Apple, thank you for believing in the vision from the very beginning. Because endings are hard, with Apple’s blessing we made one final update to our last episode—so we could say goodbye, instead of just game over.”
Created by Ganz, McElhenney, and Charlie Day, Mythic Quest stars McElhenney as Ian Grimm, the creative director for the show’s titular (and fictional) MMORPG. As the series starts, the game’s on the cusp of getting a brand new expansion, and tracks Grimm’s clash with other team leads to get the expansion out the door. Along with McElhenney, the core cast includes Hornsby, Ashly Burch, and Danny Pudi, among others. Each season was well-regarded, and the show got its own spinoff called Side Quest, which aired alongside the now-series finale and focused on Mythic Quest players, fans, and other developers at its studio.
In a eulogy on Instagram, Ganz called Mythic Quest “four seasons and seven years of working with the greatest group of people you ever met. We helped each other through a pandemic and took our hearts and made them art.” She extended her thanks to Hornsby for all those nights “in a ridiculous costume writing and rewriting with me,” and McElhenney “for sending me that email oh so many years ago. It was never easy, but it was always worth it.”
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