Will There Be a ‘Wynonna Earp’ Season 5? Show’s Deadly Ending, Explained

Wynonna Earp, one of our picks for the best Syfy television series ever, debuted on April 1, 2016, and ended almost exactly five years later, but not before thrilling viewers with its sci-fi spin on a Western legend and its swoon-worthy queer representation.

Developed for TV by Emily Andras, Wynonna Earp starred Melanie Scrofano as the title character, a descendent of real-life turn-of-the-century lawman Wyatt Earp. In the story, Wynonna has inherited her great-great-grandfather’s marksmanship but also a family curse: The outlaws Wyatt took down in his lifetime are now coming back to live as demon-like revenants and haunting Wynonna’s hometown of Purgatory. And so Wynonna joins the Black Badge Division to help send those revenants back to Hell.

The series ended after four seasons on April 9, 2021, but it got a second life of its own in the form of a Tubi special titled Wynonna Earp: Vengeance.

But is that all she wrote? Now that we’re celebrating 10 years of knowing the fictional gunslinger (who, FYI, originated in the pages of Image Comics books), we’re looking back at that final-for-now chapter and looking forward to to a possible future for the TV show.

How does Wynonna Earp end?

Wynonna Earp ended twice, actually. The TV series ended in April 2021 with the Season 4 finale, Waverly Earp (Dominique Provost-Chalkley), Wynonna’s half-sister, and Nicole Haught (Katherine Barrell), a local deputy sheriff, get married. Meanwhile, Wynonna decides to go to Purgatory for new adventures with beau Doc Holliday (Tim Rozon), the ageless pal of the long-dead Wyatt.

But then came a coda with the Tubi special Wynonna Earp: Vengeance. In that 90-minute production, Wynonna comes face-to-face with Mina (Karen Knox), a social worker Wynonna knew during her years at a group home. During that time, Wynonna and other teens held a seance that trapped Mina in hell, and a demonized Mina returns with an axe to grind in the aptly titled Vengeance. Mina kills Wynonna’s longtime friend Mercedes Gardner (Dani Kind) to summon Wynonna back to Purgatory, and then sics hellhounds on the rest of Team Earp.

Eventually, Wynonna gets the upper hand and traps Mina in a containment box. But then comes a tragic twist. An imposter Black Badge agent steals the box and tries to leave town, and when Doc gives chase, he is mortally shot and dies in Wynonna’s arms.

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Andras revealed to TV Insider that Doc’s demise was actually Rozon’s idea — and one that she endorsed. “I really had to think about what happened after happily ever after, and what is a bigger journey or a bigger adventure than death?” she said. “Wynonna Earp … lives in the realm of the supernatural, but sometimes unexpected things happen, and we have to deal with them, and grief is a huge part of life. I think Wynonna had to learn to say goodbye and to her person, the person she loves the most, while also knowing that they were fighting for something so much bigger than themselves, which was their daughter [Alice, whom Wynonna had placed with a family member for the baby’s safety].”

As for Waverly and Nicole, the latter realizes the former is yearning for new adventures outside of Purgatory in Vengeance. And with Nicole’s blessing, Waverly leaves town to help scientist Jeremy Chetri (Varun Saranga) handle a compromised Black Badge Division. Nicole hangs back to work alongside a newly-deputized Wynonna.

“It was really important in a beautiful evolution of these characters who have always been an incredible beacon of representation,” Barrell told TV Insider. “We usually end at happily ever after. What happens after is something we so rarely get to see, and I think it is so important to see that’s the mark of a solid relationship when you could say, ‘Yeah, go do your thing. I’ll be right here when you come back.’”

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Provost-Chalkley said that storyline was especially moving. “Honestly, I thought it was so courageous and awesome for Emily to write that because it’s not necessarily what you imagine after happily ever after for them,” they said. “You would be like, ‘Okay, maybe it would’ve been a baby. Maybe we would’ve stayed in the homestead.’ Whereas I think there’s something so courageous to showcase that side of relationships where it’s okay for you to have different dreams and different adventures, and it doesn’t take anything away from the love that you share for one another. If anything, it can amplify it and help the relationship grow.”

Is there going to be a Wynonna Earp Season 5?

As Vengeance hit Tubi on September 13, 2024, Andras was rarin’ to go on more stories. “Never bet against Earp and never bet against this fandom,” she said to TV Insider at the time. “I think it’s important to live in the present, be so grateful that we even got resurrected this time. You know more than anyone how many fan campaigns there are to save a show that’s gone down. We are one of the very few lucky ones, and I’m ever so grateful. But yeah, I would say if every fan watches it 200 times and keeps making noise, I’m ready to go. Once I dove back in, I was like, oh my God, I do have so many stories left to tell about this world and these characters. So I will never say no to Earp. I would love the chance to tell more.”

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In April 2025, Rozon told TV Insider he’s always ready for more Wynonna Earp, joking that he’s “a mustache away” from returning to the role of Doc Holliday. “It’s one of those things where it’s just, I’m always willing, I’m always ready,” he said. “It’s kind of that little show that just doesn’t go away. And I’m always open, I hear things. I also know how this goes, and sometimes things happen, sometimes they don’t.”

A few months later, Scrofano offered a never-say-die take to Entertainment Weekly. “I don’t think it’s ever dead,” she said. “Listen — truthfully, I don’t know anything. What I know for sure is that the fans are still fighting for it, which is awesome. It’s amazing… and really so moving and inspiring. … I know that our executive, if he could bring us back tomorrow, he would. Sometimes the fans are excited about something, but you don’t have the people up top. The second it can [return], it will, and I feel very at peace with that knowledge, that one of our biggest fans is an executive. So I have all the faith in the world that whatever can be done, will be.”