With the WGA writers’ strike and SAG-AFTRA actors’ strike currently in effect, fans of S.W.A.T. are going to have to wait a bit longer for it to return for its final season. However, fans are probably just happy it's returning at all, considering the CBS procedural was infamously canceled then uncanceled within a matter of days back in May. With that, 20-Squad's stories will be finished, and one would think that the producers want the show to go out in an explosive way. Speaking of explosions, the stunt team has provided some keen details regarding just how real those massive in-show moments are.
S.W.A.T. has been nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Stunt Coordination, and for good reason. The series has done some pretty insane stuff, from semi-truck chases to plane sequences. The action even expanded abroad to Thailand, where cool scenes were filmed. But when it comes to the explosions viewers occasionally see, are they actually real? Well, as stunt coordinator Austen Brewer tells IndieWire, some of them are indeed done practically:
