8 Years After Its Last Good Season, Nolan Eager to Complete HBO’s Iconic Sci-fi Show
The iconic series must be finished, and the finale better be as good as Season 1.
Summary:
- HBO’s Westworld was wildly popular during Season 1 but then declined in quality and was canceled after Season 4.
- Showrunner Jonathan Nolan is eager to return to the project and give it a proper finale.
- Considering how Westworld Season 4 ended, the finale could rival the famously amazing Season 1.
HBO has quite a reputation to uphold. The company that created The Wire, The Sopranos, Chernobyl, Game of Thrones, and countless other iconic TV shows understandably has high standards when it comes to its projects, and sometimes, that means axing down the series that started really strong but declined later.
One of HBO’s signature TV shows suffered this fate, but years later, its creator is willing to back, fix his mistakes, and bring the series to its well-deserved finale.
Nolan Wants to Finish Westworld
When it premiered back in 2016, Westworld became a worldwide sensation. Season 1 was so good that the show was deemed the worthy replacement for Game of Thrones after the latter would end; unfortunately, that didn’t happen. Season 2 was increasingly incoherent, and by Seasons 3 and 4, the audience just didn’t care anymore. In 2022, after S4, Westworld was canceled and even removed from Max.
But showrunner Jonathan Nolan is very much not ready to say farewell to his show.
“Lisa [Joy] and I did have an architecture for the [entire] series, and I’m big on getting a chance to finish these things. I think our hope is still somewhere down the line [for] a chance to revisit that story,” Nolan told The Wrap.
Warning: Spoilers for Westworld Season 4 ahead.
Westworld Reboot Could Be Huge
Jonathan Nolan’s latest comment virtually mirrored his earlier statement to THR where he claimed that he and Joy were “100 percent” ready to complete Westworld and eager to do so due to their “completionist” nature. Despite the lackluster late seasons, HBO’s best sci-fi show could realistically do rather well if continued.
One of the biggest complaints about the latter Westworld seasons was that it deviated way too far from its original gimmick. But seeing that Season 4 ended with Dorothy re-conjuring Season 1’s Westworld which was so beloved by the audience, the finale could finally right the wrongs of the last few seasons and give the story its well-deserved satisfying conclusion.