HBO will need to have regarded on the rankings for season 4 of Westworld and thought, “This does not appear to be something to me.” THR experiences that the sci-fi drama has formally been canceled after its fourth season, placing an finish to the collection that kicked off on the premier cabler in 2016. While the present began off robust with excessive rankings and significant acclaim, issues have modified dramatically with the collection within the years since. Viewership was plummeting by season 3 with season 4 drawing even decrease viewership. Viewers had additionally been criticizing the increasingly-confusing storylines.
“Over the past four seasons, Lisa and Jonah have taken viewers on a mind-bending odyssey, raising the bar at every step,” reads a statement by HBO addressing the cancelation. “We are tremendously grateful to them, along with their immensely talented cast, producers and crew, and all of our partners at Kilter Films, Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television. It’s been a thrill to join them on this journey.”
An further assertion from Kiltner Films provides: “Making Westworld has been one of many highlights of our careers. We are deeply grateful to our extraordinary solid and crew for creating these indelible characters and good worlds. We’ve been privileged to inform these tales about the way forward for consciousness – each human and past – within the transient window of time earlier than our AI overlords forbid us from doing so.”
Westworld’s Creators Wanted One More Season
Even with falling rankings, the cancelation comes as a shock even for a few of these engaged on the present. Often, the crew behind common exhibits are given a discover when getting canceled is imminent, permitting them to correctly shut out the story with a collection finale that wraps up all storylines. The creators have just lately stated that their hope was to get yet another season which might allow them to finish Westworld with the imaginative and prescient that they had deliberate for the conclusion.
“We had always planned on ending the series next season,” co-creator Lisa Joy told TheWrap. “You know, we always thought that Westworld should kind of come full circle and back to the West. But with Dolores, who was just a player in other people’s games, finally getting to write her own. Just to close up a lot of the stuff that we’ve seen before like the flash forward with The Man in Black and everything, so we have a plan for season 5 but you know, life can make other plans for you. So we’ll just hope for the best.”
In a separate interview with Deadline, co-creator Jonathan Nolan additionally stated, “We at all times deliberate for a fifth and ultimate season. We are nonetheless in conversations with the community. We very a lot hope to make them.”
You can stream all 4 seasons of Westworld on HBO Max.