On the heels of its season 4 ending on Sunday (August 14), Westworld season 5 is up in the air as HBO has not renewed it yet. If we get one more outing of the sci-fi series, then Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan will conclude their story from there. In an interview with TheWrap, co-creator and co-showrunner Joy spoke about all the juicy details about the fourth season and, if it gets renewed, how the last season will be its final. (Spoilers ahead)
The latest season of Westworld felt like the last. With plenty of character deaths that felt definitive, like Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson), real and host William (Ed Harris), Maeve (Thandiwe Newton), Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth), and Caleb (Aaron Paul), it seemed there is not much to go on. As Delores goes on to a new world in the Sublime for one last story, the series sets itself up to end where it began, in the Western park.
Lisa Joy speaks about Westworld season 5 being the last if it gets renewed
When you talk about ending your series, you must have a plan, at least one would think. In this case, Joy and Nolan had a plan since writing the pilot of Westworld on how the series will play out. To her, it was about how they would “tackle all these things,” then they would need to figure out the “point” they were “trying to make at the end.”
The endgame will see Evan Rachel Wood’s character Dolores return to Westworld, at least a version of it she conjured in the Sublime, as humans are extinct in the real world. The woman who was the kind farmgirl down the road to a bloodthirsty killing machine is now the storyteller. To Joy, that will alter how the story is told.
With the shakeups happening at Warner Bros., thus leading to shakeups at HBO will mean Westworld will be in limbo until we get a definitive answer to its fate. All four seasons are currently streaming on HBO Max.
