Westworld 's debut on HBO had the network's highest viewership ratings for a premiere since the first episode of True Detective, in 2014. In April 2020, HBO approved a fourth season, which is expected to broadcast in 2022. The eight-episode third season premiered on Maand concluded on May 3, 2020.
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HBO renewed the series in November 2016: The 10-episode second season aired from April 22 to June 24, 2018. The first season consisted of 10 episodes, broadcast between October 2 and December 4, 2016. Nolan and Joy serve as executive producers, along with J. Later on, in the third season, the series' setting expands to the real world, in the mid-21st century, where people's lives are driven and controlled by a powerful artificial intelligence named Rehoboam. The park caters to high-paying guests who may indulge their wildest fantasies within the park without fear of retaliation from the hosts, who are prevented by their programming from harming humans.
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The story begins in Westworld, a fictional, technologically advanced Wild-West-themed amusement park populated by android "hosts". Produced and aired by HBO, it is based on the 1973 film of the same name (written and directed by Michael Crichton) and, to a lesser extent, the film's 1976 sequel, Futureworld. Nolan and Joy may be providing answers, but they may not be the questions that fans are asking - we want to know what's next for the escapee robot Maeve ( Thandie Newton), or where the show will take Dolores and her fellow revolters.Westworld is an American dystopian science fiction neo- Western television series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. While I admire the show for wanting to answer the fans' many questions and theories, I hope this doesn't kill the momentum of Westworld, which is already facing other delays thanks to an impending writers' strike. While further context is welcome, this time jump and POV shift may be frustrating for viewers who have been left anticipating the aftermath of the robot revolt. The truth is that we have no idea what Nolan and Joy are cooking up at the moment. The change in perspective could answer questions about the inner workings of the park (How do families with children deal with the more hedonistic aspects of the park? What happens when a host, like Ed Harris' Man in Black, disassembles a host? Where exactly is the park located?) and some of the show's more minor mysteries.ĭoes this mean the show will be retracing some of its season 1 steps from a different POV in season 2? Could this mean a bigger or smaller role for Samurai World, which was teased in the final season 1 episodes? Despite the supposed focus on the guests, we may see more of Peter Abernathy and Angela, as both Louis Herthum and Talulah Riley have been upped to series regulars. will spend a little bit more time next season shining a light on those aspects of the park - what does it feel like to come to it as a guest? - just a little bit before the mayhem starts." "It didn't feel appropriate to spend too much time illuminating how unreal this place is, because the hosts believe in it so much up until that horrifying moment when they realize that it's an artificial world. This fits with Nolan's comments to TVLine that the second season will explore more fully the common guests' experiences at the park - whereas the first season focused primarily on the robot hosts - leading up the final chilling moments of the finale.
Joy told Entertainment Weekly that fans are "definitely going to see the aftermath and the effects of what happened." However, Nolan clarified that they're "definitely not picking up right where left off" in Season 1 when they begin Season 2.
When Westworld returns, it won't pick up right after the finale, in which the park's robotic hosts had risen up in a revolt against the humans.
The big question is which direction that time jump will take. Instead, season 2 will see a time jump, and won't take place immediately after the events of the season 1 finale. Westworld's overlapping timelines created an intriguing maze for viewers to solve in the first season, but showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy - who are in the midst of writing the next season that is set to air in 2018 - say that they don't plan to revisit the multiple timeline format for the second season.