This final episode proved to be a hit with RTÉ viewers with an average of 502,000 people tuning in to RTÉ for the series finale on Sunday evening. 620,000 people also tuned in for the first 7 episodes on average.
The show also set a record on RTÉ Player, with two million streams so far.
On the possibility of a second series, Goggins said, "It’s a lottery. We have to wait and see so I don’t really know. I have no insight. I wish I could give it you but from my own part, I wish, and I hope. I feel that the crew did a great job and I’d love to see it again".
"The closing scene does set things up nicely for a second series. "I think it does both," Goggins says. "There is a certain element of closure, but you can see we’ve also left things wide open with certain characters that we’d love to explore in the second season".
"The ending isn’t a cliff-hanger where we’d pick up from the exact same place if we got the go ahead for season two. At the same time Peter McKenna (KIN's writer) and I wanted to treat the ending as the end of a season and to be happy with that and if more comes, more comes".
Despite a mostly positive reaction to the final episode, Goggins did accept that there is always controversy regarding the end of a series.
He said, "It’s something we’ve seen with other shows going all the way back to The Sopranos. The finale is always the thing," he says. "Peter always talks about how the characters talk to him, everything they do comes from the characters".
"Everything they’ve done including the finale was written by the characters. It’s true to them and it’s always hard to know how the audience will take it. The ending is truthful".
"There is a conclusion and closure but at the same time there is so much scope to grow and take the characters further afield if we get a chance of a second series".
