Disney+ has announced a pre-Christmas surprise for Taylor Swift fans, revealing that the final two episodes of her six-part docuseries, "End of an Era," will now air on December 23rd at 12 a.m. PT, rather than the originally scheduled date of December 26th. The announcement, which was branded as an "early gift to fans around the world," featured a sneak peek at the next two episodes, three and four, which will air on Friday, December 19th at 12 a.m. PT.
Thanks to this docuseries, Swifties finally have the chance to look behind the scenes at many moments of Swift's "Eras" tour. Swift previewed the series for the media earlier this week in New York, joined by co-chairman of Disney Entertainment, Dana Walden, ahead of its December 12th release.
The series debuted on Disney+ at midnight on December 12th, fully inviting fans into the world of Swift's record-breaking, career-defining world tour. It also dropped a recording of Swift's post-"Tortured Poets" version of the show, "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show."
In the show's first episode, Swift shared the origin of the Eras tour concept and broke down the logistics of how a tour of this size gets underway. She said the tour concept was born out of two "unpleasant" things happening to her: her catalog, which she has since bought back, had been sold, and she had decided to rerecord her music from those albums. The second factor was the pandemic. But ultimately, once the planning and rehearsals began, Swift set out to "overserve" her fans in terms of variety of songs, length, production design, and more.
"What if I did a tour that celebrated all of these different moments in my life and career?" Swift recalled for the camera how the "eras" concept came to be. The singer's mother, Andrea Swift, remembered her daughter telling the team the show would be three hours, which led several people at her company to ponder how they could plan and execute a tour of that size.
