Luke Hemsworth, Jeffrey Wright, Aaron Paul, Angela Sarafryan, Tessa Thompson, Evan Rachel Wood, Ed Harris, and James Marsden attend HBO’s Westworld Season 4 premiere at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on June 21, 2022 in New York City.

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Luke Hemsworth, Jeffrey Wright, Aaron Paul, Angela Sarafryan, Tessa Thompson, Evan Rachel Wood, Ed Harris, and James Marsden attend HBO’s Westworld Season 4 premiere at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on June 21, 2022 in New York City.

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Fans of Westworld will not get to see the present once more — at the very least for the foreseeable future.

HBO determined Friday to cancel the hit sci-fi collection after its current fourth season, which ended on Aug. 14.

Westworld was one of the crucial talked-about TV collection since its debut on HBO in 2016. As lately as mid-October, present runners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have been nonetheless speaking about the potential for an extension. “We had always conceived of a fifth and final season,” Nolan tod Variety. “We’re still in conversations with the network.”

The dystopian drama set in a high-tech, Wild West-centric theme park additionally racked up many awards, together with 54 Emmy Award nominations. In 2018, Thandiwe Newton gained a primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

But even because the present’s lavish finances topped $100 million, rankings and viewership plummeted over the course of its 4 seasons.

“I know that the ratings have been sharply declining. I know there’s been general dissatisfaction even among the core fandom of Westworld,” mentioned Joanna Robinson, a senior author for The Ringer who covers movie and TV. “All of that in a broader TV sense usually leads us down the path towards cancellation.”

But Robinson, who has lined the present extensively since its inception, mentioned she was nonetheless stunned on the community’s resolution.

“The way that Westworld ends its fourth season on a clear cliffhanger of sorts, that does feel abrupt and kind of astonishing,” Robinson mentioned.

Robinson added she would not be stunned, nevertheless, if HBO finally ends up capitalizing on the cliffhanger by releasing a movie model, maybe 10 years from now, to wrap issues up.