The end is coming. Not just for Westworld’s remaining robot hosts and odd surviving human, but perhaps for the show itself. With declining viewership and the tumultuous fall-out of the Warner Bros/Discovery merger going on behind the scenes, there’s still no news about whether the series will return for a fifth season. As it stands, there’s now just one final episode left to conclude this convoluted tale, and this instalment’s spate of major character deaths seems to suggest we really could be close to drawing the curtain on this rollercoaster six-year epic.
What that means is that while much of this season has felt like the meticulous arranging of chess pieces on a board, we’re now very much entering the endgame. By the close of this episode a couple of Queens, a wise Knight and a whole lot of pawns will have been taken off the board. Let’s see who’s still standing for the finale…
