Behind the Final Season of The Chosen

We can all feel the weight, the excitement, the anticipation.

After years of watching, praying, waiting, and wondering, The Chosen is ending its final chapter of production this week.

Season 7 isn’t simply another season. It is the culmination of an extraordinary journey: one that has moved millions of people, sparked conversations about Jesus around the world, and been carried by the prayers of a global community. And now, as the final days of filming unfold, there is a palpable sense that we are witnessing the close of one remarkable chapter—and the beginning of something new.

Because while production may be reaching its finish line, the mission is far from over. What has been created on screen will continue to travel into homes, hearts, and communities around the world through the mission of Come and See.

So, what is it actually like behind the scenes? What are the people who have lived it feeling right now? And what has God been doing in the middle of it all—and what might He do next?

There was one person we wanted to sit down with to find out: Brad Fogarty, VP of Talent for The Chosen and Come and See, as well as Producer at Milk & Honey Studios. Brad, affectionately known by most of us as "Fogarty," has had a front-row seat to the making of this historic series. I had an opportunity to sit down with him to go behind the scenes of these final days of production—to hear what he’s seeing, what he’s learning about Jesus, the moments that have stopped him in his tracks, and why he’s so quick to say, “We’ve been sustained on the prayers of the saints.”

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Laura: As Season 7 draws to a close, what does it feel like on set in these final days of production?

Fogarty: We’ve actually been calling this season our “senior year,” because everybody’s kind of asking, “Where are you going next?”

The energy on set is emotional. People are reminiscing and thinking through everything we’ve been through—thinking through the fact that, “Oh my gosh, this is coming to an end.” And this specific team may never work together again.

But I think the thing that everyone is most unified on is the impact we realize the show is having—in and amongst its fan base, and around the world, with fans we’ll never meet.

People are consuming the content of the show, and the cast and crew know it’s changing lives. There’ll be very few projects you work on in your life that you can know with confidence that this is making a shift in culture.

Laura: If you could take the Come and See prayer community onto the set for one moment of this final season, where would you take us?

Fogarty: One place I’d love to take people is the tomb. It just speaks to you, because the stone is rolled away. When you’re standing there at the empty tomb, the visual has a profound weight to it.

Laura: Is there a particular moment from Season 7 that stopped you in your tracks—where you felt like God was there?

Fogarty: Jesus appears to the disciples after the Resurrection, and they don’t know where He came from or how He got in the room. There were just some really cool things that happened on set, even down to camera flares and lighting that were miraculous, if you will.

So, it’s just like—we see the Lord’s handprint on this every day. You just have to know this project is incredibly attacked. We are in the crosshairs of the Enemy. It doesn’t stop.

If you interviewed the cast and crew and asked, “Tell me about what life was like after you started working on The Chosen,” I think you’d hear story after story after story of tragedy and frustration and difficulty.

Here’s the deal: “In this world, you will have trouble.” But Jesus assures us to “take heart, because He has overcome the world.”

Laura: Season 7 also brings the disciples into a very human struggle with belief and unbelief. What has that meant to you?

Fogarty: Sometimes we over-spiritualize the characters around Jesus. We strip them of their humanity.

When you’re dealing with someone in your family with a cancer diagnosis or dealing with your finances and you just can’t seem to get your head above water, sometimes you have this tension: “Well, is God really ‘good?’ Is He really for me? Is He even with me right now?”

And as He does, He proves Himself faithful.

I think Dallas and Ryan and Tyler —our writers—did a fantastic job of capturing that struggle, while honoring the fact that our doubt does not define God. It defines the way in which we encounter or experience Him.

Laura: How has being part of The Chosen changed how you personally see Jesus?

Fogarty: I love the tangible humanity that is displayed in our show—not to dumb Jesus down, not to dumb down the disciples and the struggle that they had. To see Him in this “like us” state, to me, helps me have faith that I can walk in a “like Him” state.

Jesus constantly says, “If you wanna come after me, take up your cross, deny yourself and follow me.” And we’ve kind of had to do that a lot on the show. You just kind of have to suck it up, bear the burden, and serve the cause because you know it’s the cause of heaven.

It’s such a refreshing thing to know that when I put my hands on this thing and push whatever it is, my hands are on top of His hands. He was already here pushing before I showed up.

And so I’ve just learned about His faithfulness.

Overall, I think things I knew in theory about Jesus, I now know in experience.

I fully believed in theory that He is healer, He is provider, He is rescuer, He is redeemer. I wasn’t dense to His majesty or His grandeur.

But in working here the last five seasons, there’s just been some things that I only knew in theory that I now know from experience.

He is faithful, and just, and He forgives and He does in fact rescue and restore and redeem. He mends, He resurrects.

It’s an undeniable thing that the sum of His word is truth. And that He Himself said, He’s the way, the truth, and the life.

It’s like I’ve stared truth in the eyes, and it’s beautiful.

Laura: What would you say directly to the people who have been praying over this work for years?

Fogarty: I don’t know that we’d ever be able to say "thank you" in a way that justifies those two words.

But we have been sustained on the prayers of the saints. Prayers have literally pushed us through so many different facets of frustration or fatigue or elation. It’s been the breath in our lungs.

We are acutely aware that there’s something behind us. And I know that to be the prayers of His people.

We have been championed and pushed across this finish line by the work that you’ve done in your quiet place with the Almighty.

Laura: What are the prayers you’re carrying now for the show and the people who have been part of making it?

Fogarty: Two things. I’m praying that the story that we’ve captured will capture people’s hearts.

And my prayer for my guys is that they would just know how much God loves them. Because it’s the kindness of the Lord that draws men’s hearts to a place where they can find Him.

Laura: Without giving away spoilers, how can we pray specifically for the final season?

Fogarty: Childbirth is not all entirely wonderful. There is pain and there is discomfort and there is fatigue. And yet when it’s over, somehow you don’t remember that as deeply, because of the wonderment and the beauty of the product.

And there’s a real sense of that for this show.

I think everyone understands it’s not just something that will be "water cooler" conversation. It’s stuff that will be life-changing.

So, pray for resilience. Pray for the memories to be so pleasant that bitterness doesn’t grow. Because what happens when you grow bitter is that you miss the beauty of what was actually created.

That’s a definite prayer request for all of us: that the beauty of what was created will be what captures our attention and that all the birth pangs and discomfort will fade. As the old hymn says, that the pain would “grow strangely dim” in the light of what’s taking place.

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We wrapped up our conversation the best way we knew how—with prayer.

Before we said goodbye, Fogarty didn’t want to miss the opportunity to pray for you and the Prayer Crew, the community that has faithfully prayed for this work and carried it to this moment.

So, we’ll leave you with his prayer. Just press play.
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