‘White Collar’ season 6: More discussion, and exercising patience

For any “White Collar” fan, we know that this is a stressful time. Typically around this time, you know already whether or not the show is coming back; but this time around, things are much more complicated. You have a show that pulls decent numbers, but one that also is pretty expensive to make, has some very busy actors in its cast, and a creator who is also working on another show in “Graceland.” That’s a lot of stuff to try and sift through.

It was first reported earlier this week that there are still major discussions within USA about how the story should continue, whether that be a final season with a normal order, a miniseries, or something else. There’s nothing more uncomfortable than uncertainty, and we’re sure that the crew and cast members feel that even more than anyone, given that this is their jobs.

So with that in mind, hopefully this message from Willie Garson (via Twitter) will help you breathe in a deep sigh, and know that something will be worked out in one way or another:

“Message to fans of @WhiteCollarUSA —-calm down. What will be, will be. The support and love is awesome, just relax, USA is working on it.”

The only major thing that we can stress here is that it feels pretty unlikely that USA is just going to decide to shut down the series without any proper conclusion, since they have not done that with any other one of their long-running shows. “Monk” and “Burn Notice” ended the way that they wanted to, and the assumption is that “Psych” is going to have at least some sort of appropriate ending (even if we would have preferred to know that it was the final season before the show actually premiered). The fact that the show’s official Twitter account addressed the waiting game a week ago suggests that it’s nobody’s intention right now to cancel the show outright.

But, even if for whatever reason the worst thing happens, at least we can take solace in five very fun, action-packed seasons; and given how smart Neal is, it’s pretty easy to imagine that he found a way to get his freedom back without us seeing it on TV. (With that being said, we’d still much rather see it in a “White Collar” episode than our imagination.)

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