The writers of the Netflix drama have posted a photo of a dry-erase whiteboard with the caption “Grid Stage.” There were boxes with eight columns titled for each episode, suggesting that there will be eight episodes in all for the final season.
One fan was clearly disappointed, tweeting, “ONLY EIGHT EPISODES???”
“I don’t think the runtimes will be that extreme in Season 5,” he said. “We’re trying to get back to the simple structure of Season 1, with a bigger scale and scope.”
The series won awards for Outstanding Music Supervision, Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Stunt Coordination at the Creative Arts Emmys over the weekend. It is nominated for Outstanding Drama Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards on September 12.
There is no official release date for the final season.