Preacher Season 4 ending
"Preacher" will end with Season 4. Pictured: Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer and Ruth Negga as Tulip O'Hare. Lachlan Moore/AMC/Sony Pictures Television

The final season of “Preacher” kicks off this Sunday, but fans might be wondering why the AMC show is ending. After all, it’s pretty successful and a fun series. However, it seems it was a creative decision.

Star Dominic Cooper, who plays Jesse, told Entertainment Weekly that the executive producers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin made the decision for “Preacher” Season 4 to be the end, and the cast supports them.

“We’re proud of the work we’ve done and we’re pleased that it has come to an end, that they made the decision to wrap it up and not let it become something that they didn’t know it was,” Cooper explained. “There was some uncertainty as to whether they were going to carry it on… but I think it was a great decision to say, ‘Let’s finish it.’ It’s going to be an incredible season.”

AMC likely didn’t fight the decision. Ratings for “Preacher” have been slipping. While the first season averaged 1.67 million viewers each week with .4 in the 18-49 demographic, last year’s Season 3 only brought in 854,000 viewers on average with just .25 in the demo.

Still, “Preacher” has the rare opportunity to craft a proper ending for the show. Catlin, who is showrunner, assured audiences that they had time to wrap up every story arc, so it’ll be the series finale they planned all along.

“This is how we wanted to end it,” Catlin told UPI. “We made a real, real effort to make sure that we would have no regrets and nothing would be left on the table.”

“Preacher” Season 4, the final season, premieres Sunday on AMC.