Thursday night’s “Superstore” season finale left viewers with a half-cliffhanger after series star America Ferrera announced on Instagram that she was leaving the NBC sitcom — just after it was renewed for a sixth season in February.
On the two-part finale, concluding this fall, Ferrera’s character, Amy Sosa, accepted a job with Cloud 9’s corporate parent in California, thousands of miles from the store’s St.
Louis location. That was expected as a way to explain Ferrera’s departure. What wasn’t expected was Amy’s boyfriend, Cloud 9 associate Jonah (Ben Feldman), offering to move with her to the West Coast. “We had to shut down production one week early (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) so we didn’t get to shoot what was planned as the season