For seven seasons, SEAL Team followed David Boreanaz‘s Jason Hayes and his team both on high-stakes missions and back home with their loved ones. In October, the CBS-turned-Paramount+ series came to an end.
Now, you’ll be able to relive all of it, with the seventh and final season out on DVD (as well as the complete series) on Tuesday, December 17. The Season 7 DVD has three discs with every episode and 35 minutes of special features, including deleted scenes, a gag reel, and two featurettes, “Seal Team Season 7: Bravos Last Stand” and “Operation Colombia.” The complete series set has 30 discs of all 114 episodes and over five and a half hours of special features, including gag reels, deleted scenes, featurettes, and more. In honor of the releases, TV Insider spoke with Boreanaz to look back on the show, Jason’s ending, and more. Plus, would he do a revival of any sort?
How do you feel about how Jason’s story ended on screen?
David Boreanaz: I mean, it was appropriate for a character like this to, I think, end the way he was supposed to, go out on the battlefield. And what I love about it is in landing the plane and talking to Spencer [Hudnut] and Chris [Chulack] about it and just really thought that putting him on the battlefield and not knowing what really is going to happen next is, I think, where he’s supposed to be. So for me, really, it’s a great moment to see and also to have shot that was really cool. So I think it was perfect. It’s very open-ended. You don’t really know what’s going to happen to him.
When I spoke with Spencer about the finale, he said that he thinks there’s a tragic element to Jason still operating. Do you agree?
Not necessarily. I think that all of these special operators have some sense of tragedy and unfortunate traumatic responses, trauma obviously that they deal with on a daily basis. I don’t think that ever really goes away. So I think that does stick with them. Is it a little bit less of a burden on him? Yeah, of course. I think the season in itself was probably, in my opinion, just too dark for his character to go through what he went through. And I think it’s a testimony to knowing for myself like, Hey, this was the right time to end it. For me, I had made that decision before the writers’ strike and I’m happy that I decided to say, this is it for me, and I’m glad that the series is over.
So does that mean you wouldn’t do a movie or a continuation of any kind if the opportunity arose?
I think a movie is definitely a lot easier to do, but doing a series like this and the amount of work that it took day in and day out, it’s just too much, the pounding mentally and physically. It just really was a burden in a lot of ways. I’m very fortunate and humble to have portrayed the character because I just left it all out there for our veterans and for those people that have sacrificed for us. And to me, that’s what this series was all about, was giving back and shining light into these dark corners. But a film will definitely be, well, not easy to do, but it will be a lot better on the body, for sure.
