The Neighborhood has officially come to an end — but how did CBS wrap up the hit sitcom after eight seasons?
During the series finale, which aired on Monday, May 11, Calvin (Cedric the Entertainer) and Tina (Tichina Arnold) watched their sons — Malcolm (Sheaun McKinney) and Marty (Marcel Spears) — get married. At the same time, the Butlers had different reactions as they all mourned Dave (Max Greenfield) and Gemma’s (Beth Behrs) move back to Michigan.
Dave and Gemma’s son, Grover (Hank Greenspan), even tried to squat at the Butlers’ home instead of moving with his parents. In the end, Calvin gave an emotional speech where he finally acknowledged his friendship with Dave. The Butlers helped the Johnsons pack up their house and watched them drive off.
The final scene was Tina asking her husband if he was looking forward to meeting their new neighbors. Calvin, however, joked he “wasn’t ready to train in” another neighbor after Dave.
The Neighborhood premiered in 2018 and followed a white Midwestern family adjusting after moving into a predominantly Black neighborhood in California. CBS confirmed in 2025 that The Neighborhood was renewed for an eighth and final season. Greenfield, 46, later spoke to Us Weekly about choosing to look for a silver lining.
“The truth of the matter is this will be our eighth and final season. When you look around, there’s so few … there’s no shows that go eight seasons anymore and there may never be another one. We might be the last one,” Greenfield told Us last year. “So I’m genuinely not sad at all that this is ending and feel so grateful for the eight seasons that we were given. We’ve been through so much together. This show has made it through a pandemic. This show has made it through multiple writers and actor strikes. It’s been a real roller-coaster.”
Greenfield teased at the time that The Neighborhood is going out on a high.
“To have made it this far and to be in the position we’re at is just such a wonderful gift,” he continued. “And the ability to say goodbye in the way that we all want to, it is great. So I’m really excited to have a fun last season where everybody knows what the fate of the show is and have a good time with the people that I have already had such a good time with for the last seven-plus years.”
Cedric the Entertainer, 62, also reflected on the sitcom’s cancellation following ups and downs behind the scenes.
“On this particular show, we had to go through a number of adversities that were different from just a TV show,” Cedric the Entertainer told Us in May 2025. “There were the [WGA and SAG-AFTRA] strikes and COVID. There’s been so many challenges that [it comes down to], ‘How do you keep a show together? How do you keep a cast together? How do you keep everybody motivated?’”
There were creative shakeups as well. “A lot of executive producers — we had to switch the writers a lot,” Cedric the Entertainer explained. “I think that the biggest thing I learned is this idea of staying steady, staying focused and understanding that through adversity is an opportunity for a bigger and greater win.”
He continued: “You gotta trust that a lot of times — sometimes you see it as all tragedy, it’s happening — but sometimes it’s trusting the idea that the win is actually on the other side of it. If you can dig through it. That’s what I’ve learned the most.”
Greenfield, for his part, said the cast was focused on delivering the best possible ending for fans who followed along from the start.
“We do know that we want to have something that feels final for the audience, that the audience that loves the show, that loves us coming into their house every week. We want them to really enjoy this,” the New Girl alum told Us. “We don’t want to have that kind of Game of Thrones ending where everybody is like, ‘That’s some bulls***.’ That’s the biggest thing we working on, is a good finish so that our audience goes, ‘That was good.’”
The Neighborhood is now streaming on Paramount+.
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