Why Westworld Just Got Cancelled

HBO just announced that the sci-fi series will not be getting a fifth season.

#Westworld

[frankenviews]

Having a proper ending is just better of future viewings by audiences on streaming platforms. Definitely deserves at least a 2 hour streaming movie to wrap things up.

[lemuntpicard]

Frankly the end of season 4 felt pretty final. Everybody's dead or not real anymore.

[Nhamp]

I loved the show during the first two seasons, but man, was it hard to follow the last two. It seemed like they just kept trying to run that "are they or aren't they robots?" and multiple timeline back and forths, that it just got discombobulated. I still would've liked to see a final season.

[luegenbaronmunchhausen]

Unpopular opinion: The Series lived through outstanding Anthony Hopkins a.k.a. Dr. Ford and died with him. Dr. Ford represented what Westworld once stood for: Philosophical dialogue, intriguing, complex but likeable characters and crazy twists. And without him, Westworld turned out to be only a shell of its former greatness.

[Dark_Depresion]

Series one of Westworld is possibly my favourite TV series ever. And while I also enjoyed the rest of the seasons, the show got a lot different, turning from a western/sci-fi to purely sci-fi. I think the western aspect is in many ways what people remember most from both the book, 70's movie and series one, so slowly abandoning this aspect of the story in S2 and pretty much completely for S3 and S4, tunderstandably urned many people off the show. Shame then, that one of the big cliffhangers seems to indicate a return to a similar story as season one.
I am and always will be in love with this show, and am bummed by the cancellation, but I do understand and accept as valid the reasoning behind that decision.

[randomlibra]

I tried to love the show, and it was my favorite show for the first season, but it went way off the rails for me. I don't know where I expected it to go, but I don't like where it went.

[MemBirdman]

Makes sense. Honestly, I'm a little surprised it didn't get canceled during Covid. It was just way too long of a wait between seasons 3 and 4 to keep the emotional investment. The way 4 started, in their wibbly wobbly, slow burn way, I watched two episodes, found no attachment and stopped.

[cuadernosdelteratologo]

I was surprised ti know that there was plans for a 5th season. For me the season 4 finale felt like the end...

[ray]

The end of season two actually wrapped things up really nicely. The real purpose of the park was gathering dna from the rich guests for nefarious purposes. Ford felt so guilty of his part in prolonging the hosts suffering that he created a digital heaven for them to escape to under the noses of the board directors. William went insane and Dolores and bernard went out to experience the real world. Period. They wanted to go bigger in season 3 but the Rehoboam thing really took the show off the rails.

[TheyCantAllBeTaken]

First season was fantastic
Second was good
Third was meh
Didn't bother with the fourth

[Nattodayy]

It’s a real bummer the show wasn’t allowed to be completed, but I think The Peripheral is Westworld’s spiritual successor.

[duvan.deschain]

To me, this is a shame because season 4 improved drastically when compared to S3 and even S2 at some places. I think by the time they wrote S4 they finally had a clear path, everything was tight and just visually impressive. Our only hope as it tends to be in these cases, is that another platform buys the rights to it and give the opportunity to the creators to wrap things up. Although, that has not happened to Hannibal so it probably won't happen to Westworld :/

[edgarspavlovics]

well the story WAS finished really... Maybe not in the way we hoped for. I love the show, but didn't expect it to continue. This ending makes sense, everything went full circle, we are back in the original westworld, and whatever happens next is up to our interpretation.

[adorkability]

The series outgrew its original premise, for better or worse depending on your point of view, but it was consistently beautifully made and well acted for its entire run. I was still a fan and hate that they, and we as viewers, won't get the ending it deserved.

[sydnitheromantictaylor]

Westworld was excellent in season 1, season 1 was one of the best seasons of television ever. I enjoyed season 2 but I didn't care for season 3 or 4. This show was only supposed to be 4 seasons anyway so I was shocked when I heard there was supposed to be a season 5 but now it's cancelled.

[caseyleichter]

I love Westworld. It continued to blow my mind - more thematically than plot, as the seasons went on - but I love the ideas behind it, how it explored the concept of personhood, identity, fate v. free will... I **like** twisty dense plotlines! I am really sad there won't be a 5th season, no wrap-up at all.

[hollburs]

I'm so sad... Last season was really good (I personnaly loved every one of them) but I get that people liked the first way more than others. Still, the fourth was really close to the first : awesome !
They just rushed the last episode in case fifth season was cancelled and it happens. It's my favored show, so smart and well done, I'm sad and that's the second time (with Utopia)that I'm in that position. To bad they wasn't allow to make the show complete...

[aetherllama]

The end was so bleak, I want to see what they had in mind for season 5.

[epcarter]

Once they left the park for me is when the story got uninteresting. I stopped watching after season 3 and I barely finished that.

[IMDANIELAUSTIN]

Honestly they should do a premium-budget movie of Westworld that serve as a visual reboot from the original movie but also works as the finale for the show. Two birds one stone 🔥🥰.