After six seasons, 124 episodes and 13 soundtracks, "Nashville" of TV finally had one last scene at turn.

If you avoid spoilers, know that we are about to describe it. This is not the last shot you'll see on Thursday's playoff final (CMT, 9 EDT / PDT).

Clare Bowen and Charles Esten – stars of the show since its premiere on ABC in 2012 – were once again in the back dressing tage, saying their latest lines as Scarlett and Deacon. Before they knew it, it was a packaging.

"Everyone was standing there, waiting for us to say something," Bowen recalls. "And I did not know what to say except" Thanks. "I love you all." Because they're my family. "

Over the last six years, the TV series – toured on-site at Nashville and focused on the country music industry – was a transformational force

For fans who fell in love with his characters and his songs, the actors and members of the team that uprooted their lives and the city that won an incredible marketing coup thanks to the success of the parade.

And this success has often been hard won.Although "Nashville" was first presented to rave reviews and decent notes, the audience gradually dwindled over the At the end of season four, ABC canceled the show, but in part thanks to the rallying of fans (known as "Nashies"), the CMT wired network has picked it up and kept it alive for two more seasons.

announced, it was clear from the start that it would be "Nashville" last – a decision that executive producer Marshall Herskovitz called "a gift."

"We could really plan a last season, and a final that would do justice to the characters," he says. "I think the whole season was about to get ready."

Of course, few people were prepared for the "farewell" surprise episode "Nashville" aired last year – with the sudden death of Rayna Jaymes, protagonist of the star series Connie Britton

But Herskovitz says that in his later years, the show's mission was to move away from his soap side opera, and focus on "the human drama that people could relate to their own lives."

While several stars in the series have bought houses in Nashville and intend to stay, new shows are beginning to attract them elsewhere.

Esten has landed a role on the upcoming TNT drama "Tell Me Your Secrets", which is filming in New Orleans. Bowen spends time in Los Angeles, reconnecting with an industrial community that she was beginning to know before "Nashville" changed her life.

One thing is certain: "Nashville" does not leave this city as they have found it. Bowen and her castmates were once foreigners who had to earn the trust of residents – now she is a six-year-old resident who watched the city transform first hand.

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