Is Queen of the south season 6 Canceled?

Fans binge-watched the most recent batch of episodes from Netflix’s USA Network hit, Queen of the South, in April. If fans anticipate The Queen of the South Season 6, they will be sorely disappointed; those episodes will be the final ones for the series. The new Queen of the South episodes debuted on the USA Network in summer 2021—around the same time news broke that the show had been canceled.

Alice Braga stars as Teresa Mendoza in Queen of the South, a show about a woman who goes from poverty to running her own cartel. The show has been a sleeper hit for Netflix, with millions of viewers tuning in for its heart-stopping adventures.

What happened in The Queen of the South Seasons 1 to 5?

Teresa Mendoza is the show’s protagonist. She is exceptional; she is a survivor. She was formerly a money-changer from Sinaloa who rose to establish and expand her own narcotics cartel that controls all cocaine transportation and distribution in Arizona, branching into Florida, Louisiana, New York City, Georgia, and Europe. She is the reason why fans expect to see her in the Queen of the south season 6.

Teresa and James’s romance has the best slow burn on contemporary TV. Teresa works with him, and he teaches her about the business world’s harsh realities.

Teresa Mendoza tries to impress Camila Varga in season 2, so she can prove herself worthy. Meanwhile, Camila has enough on her hands to keep her cartel afloat as her husband attempts to close operations and get her back home. Teresa is forced into exile from the Mexican cartel and finds refuge in America. Alone and starting from scratch, she now faces the challenge of building an empire.

In season 3, we see her establishing a business in Arizona and Phoenix. This gives her more control over the supply corridor from Colombia, Cuidadan, and the USA. Eliminating some of her rivals in the process.

Season 4 of Queen of the South saw new showrunners in Daily Rodriguez and Ben Lobato. They were promoted to executive producers and showrunners, replacing Natalie Chaidez, who moved on to greener pastures. This season, Teresa comes closer to the Throne by taking control of a smuggling operation that reaches from Sinaloa to Phoenix, Miami, and New Orleans; later, she expands her organization into New York City and deals with Russian mafias.

In the previous two seasons, Teresa has consistently gotten out of trouble. She’s still gunning for Toña and Salazar, but she doesn’t care about their feelings compared to hers.

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This assault will not defeat her. She was again given a chance at life when El Gordo betrayed his bosses and joined forces with her. In season 6, she solidified her position in New York before heading to Europe in the following season, Season 5.

Teresa’s biggest dream is to be so successful that she becomes “too big to fail.” However, an old nemesis from her days in the CIA throws a wrench in those plans.

Throughout this season, we see Teresa lose more and more members of her family. But despite everything, she finds love. And when the CIA tries to use her as a pawn in their games, she comes up with a plan to fake her death and leave the narco life behind for good.

Name of TV Series	Queen of the South Season 6
Genre	Crime Drama
Lead Role	Alice Braga
Total Seasons	5
Total Episodes	62
Queen of the South Season 6 Release Date	N/A
Queen of the South Season 6 Trailer	N/A

Queen of the South Season 6 Cancellation Confirmed?

It’s official: Queen of the South season 6 will not be there. The news was announced by USA Network back in August, just a few months after the show’s fifth season had premiered.

Unfortunately for those who are just now discovering Queen of the South, the show was canceled in March 2021, a month before the fifth and final season aired. The series finale aired on USA Network on June 9, 2021, after airing 62 episodes.

NBCUniversal canceled Queen of the South Season 6 while it was in the process of cutting down on scripted shows produced specifically for USA Network. The company’s new strategy is to make the USA home for reality programming and develop scripted projects primarily for Peacock.

Along with 20th Century Fox Television, NBCUniversal’s Universal Content Productions also created the series. However, since Disney transformed 20th Television, Queen of the South no longer falls under its umbrella.

Why was the Queen of the South Season 6 canceled?

In March 2021, Netflix confirmed that Season 5 of the series would be the final one, about a month before it began airing. Entertainment Networks (who own the USA) chairperson Frances Berwick said in a release: “For five fantastic seasons, Queen of the South has enthralled us with brilliant narrative and compelling characters.”

We are so grateful to have worked with such an incredible team of creators, cast, and crew, along with our studio partners at 20th Television and UCP. As we close this final chapter, we look forward to a great season culminating in a finale that will give our fans the ending they deserve. When the show was canceled, it was USA’s most popular original drama.

Queen of the South Season 6 was canceled because the network was focusing less on original dramas. At its cancellation, only three original dramas were left on air: Queen of the South, The Sinner, and Dirty John. And as of November 2021, The Sinner has been canceled, with no plans for a third season of Dirty John currently announced.

Although the USA did air Season 1 Chucky in late 2021 (which it shared with Syfy), nothing has been said about whether or not it will air Season 2, meaning that at this moment, the USA has no original dramas lined up.

Is Queen of the South season 6 coming back to Netflix? Yes, technically speaking. However, with any US series that has been a success for them, such as Dare Me, they have not done so yet. Furthermore, after ending its run in the USA nearly a year ago, there has been no mention of a Netflix revival.

Co-showrunner Dailyn Rodriguez expressed her joy to Deadline about getting the chance to give the show a proper ending. She said: “It brought me an enormous amount of peace, ending the series this way. I think that our series can be so dark, violent, and sad on many levels— it starts in a very sad place with what happens to Teresa in the pilot— but there’s also so much beauty within it.”

To close the series, “The Wire” chose to film in Southern California, a place usually associated with sunshine and beauty. But they saw nothing like anything we’d ever seen on the show… I loved how it ended. It has this beautiful, sunny location that is unlike anything we’ve ever seen on the show… It is quite emotionally gratifying.

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