Quantico Season 3 has yet to be cancelled or renewed at this early stage in the 2016-17 rat race, but showrunner Josh Safran has confirmed plans for a third season in an interview with THR:
The show will always be about what it takes to protect the country. That’s sort of the nature of the characters. Protection is the theme and then underneath that, the emotional theme, is about how you have to be gray. There is no such thing as a black hat or a white hat. All of us have to exist in the gray and learn how to somehow be comfortable, especially the people who are the guardians of our country and responsible for our safety. Our show will always be about those two things: The protection of the country and moral gray areas involved therein. Whether it will be about a terrorist event in season three, I don’t know.
On fixing Quantico in Season 2 to stand it in good stead with fans and the ABC renewal gods:
It’s more about these people in this world and what this world does to you, as opposed to: “There’s one bad guy and who will that bad guy be? You’re going to have to wait eight months to find out.” That’s not what we’re doing this year. There is obviously an event and there are bad people, but it becomes very quickly apparent that it’s about a culture of terrorism.
As for how long Quantico can outpace the cancellation reaper, Safran is targeting a five season run:
Well, John McClane made it to five [Die Hard] movies so maybe, five seasons? (Laughs.) That’s how we look at this. That’s another thing Priyanka and I are so proud of: Alex Parrish is not a character who jumps off what she’s doing the second her boyfriend has an issue with her or her family is upset with her, she puts the vision first and she is in that way an action hero. That’s very important to us and something we’re very proud of, so she’ll save the world as many times as it needs saving. She’ll do it while still being herself and not while secretly hope to be doing something else. That’s what makes her so special: That is her duty and she will do it.
Stay tuned as we continue to monitor the status of Quantico Season 3 renewal and potentially beyond…
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