I still remember being blown away by the 1973 Westworld with Yul Brenner’s android gunslinger. And when I heard Peron of Interest’s Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy were adapting the concept for HBO, I was keenly interested. With expanded budgets, improved technology, and being episodic, the concepts could be more deeply explored.
The first season, released in 2016, was not at all disappointing, with its rich cast, superb acting, and fine scripts. We got invested in the humans and androids, dubbed Hosts, alike, curious to see if these machines would truly gain sentience and then what…?
Now we’re at the end of the road, which proved far more meandering and disappointing. What it means to be human, as seen through the awakening eyes of the Hosts meant we were rooting for Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) and Maeve Millay (Thandiwe Newton), among others. The second season saw Delores leading a revolt,...
The first season, released in 2016, was not at all disappointing, with its rich cast, superb acting, and fine scripts. We got invested in the humans and androids, dubbed Hosts, alike, curious to see if these machines would truly gain sentience and then what…?
Now we’re at the end of the road, which proved far more meandering and disappointing. What it means to be human, as seen through the awakening eyes of the Hosts meant we were rooting for Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) and Maeve Millay (Thandiwe Newton), among others. The second season saw Delores leading a revolt,...
- 12/12/2022
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
This article contains spoilers for Westworld season 4.
There’s “writing yourself into a corner” and then there’s “writing yourself into a scenario where all your characters enter into a mystical robot heaven corner.” Should it have received a fifth and final season, that was the situation that HBO’s Westworld would have had to stare down. Of course, now we know it won’t have the chance.
HBO announced today that it had canceled its sci-fi blockbuster after four seasons, releasing a statement that read: “Over the past four seasons, Lisa (Joy) and Jonah (Nolan) have taken viewers on a mind-bending odyssey, raising the bar at every step. We are tremendously grateful to them, along with their immensely talented cast, producers and crew, and all of our partners at Kilter Films, Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television. It’s been a thrill to join them on this journey.”
The...
There’s “writing yourself into a corner” and then there’s “writing yourself into a scenario where all your characters enter into a mystical robot heaven corner.” Should it have received a fifth and final season, that was the situation that HBO’s Westworld would have had to stare down. Of course, now we know it won’t have the chance.
HBO announced today that it had canceled its sci-fi blockbuster after four seasons, releasing a statement that read: “Over the past four seasons, Lisa (Joy) and Jonah (Nolan) have taken viewers on a mind-bending odyssey, raising the bar at every step. We are tremendously grateful to them, along with their immensely talented cast, producers and crew, and all of our partners at Kilter Films, Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television. It’s been a thrill to join them on this journey.”
The...
- 11/4/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
It’s sunset for HBO-Bad Robot’s Westworld, the premium cabler announced this afternoon. The show ended its fourth season on August 14.
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The series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, an adaptation of the 1973 Michael Crichton film, boasted nine Primetime Emmy wins during its run and 54 noms, as well as a big-name cast that included Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Thandie Newton, Tessa Thompson, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Luke Hemsworth, Aaron Paul and many others. Newton won the series’ sole acting Emmy, Supporting Actress in Drama Series in 2020 for her portrayal of Maeve, who...
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The series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, an adaptation of the 1973 Michael Crichton film, boasted nine Primetime Emmy wins during its run and 54 noms, as well as a big-name cast that included Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Thandie Newton, Tessa Thompson, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Luke Hemsworth, Aaron Paul and many others. Newton won the series’ sole acting Emmy, Supporting Actress in Drama Series in 2020 for her portrayal of Maeve, who...
- 11/4/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Tessa Thompson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are teaming up for “Ash,” a sci-fi thriller directed by filmmaker and musician Steven Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus.
Written by Jonni Remmler, the film follows an astronaut (Thompson) who wakes up on the distant planet she’s stationed on to find that the rest of her crew has been brutally murdered. After another astronaut (Gordon-Levitt) comes to rescue her, they begin to investigate what happened, setting into motion a horrifying series of events that leave them wondering if they can really trust each other.
Flying Lotus will compose an original score. XYZ Films and Gfc Films are set to produce. XYZ is handling worldwide sales at next month’s TIFF, where Flying Lotus’ anthology horror film “V/Hs/99,” will premiere in the Midnight Madness program. Executive producers on “Ash” are “District 9” writer-director Neill Blomkamp and Echo Lake.
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Written by Jonni Remmler, the film follows an astronaut (Thompson) who wakes up on the distant planet she’s stationed on to find that the rest of her crew has been brutally murdered. After another astronaut (Gordon-Levitt) comes to rescue her, they begin to investigate what happened, setting into motion a horrifying series of events that leave them wondering if they can really trust each other.
Flying Lotus will compose an original score. XYZ Films and Gfc Films are set to produce. XYZ is handling worldwide sales at next month’s TIFF, where Flying Lotus’ anthology horror film “V/Hs/99,” will premiere in the Midnight Madness program. Executive producers on “Ash” are “District 9” writer-director Neill Blomkamp and Echo Lake.
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- 8/29/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
As is customary with “Westworld,” the HBO sci-fi series’ Season 4 finale ended with plenty of surprises, and left viewers with a number of lingering questions. Luckily, TheWrap spoke with co-creator and co-showrunner Lisa Joy about that Season 4 finale ending, crafting the season as a whole and what might be next for the series if it gets renewed.
Indeed, HBO has not yet ordered a fifth season of “Westworld,” but Joy is hopeful they do because Season 5 is planned to be the conclusion to the story that she and co-creator Jonathan Nolan began all the way back in 2016.
Below, Joy answers some burning questions we had after that finale including what’s up with Dolores’ test, why Charlotte Hale made that game-changing decision and whether humanity really is toast.
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Indeed, HBO has not yet ordered a fifth season of “Westworld,” but Joy is hopeful they do because Season 5 is planned to be the conclusion to the story that she and co-creator Jonathan Nolan began all the way back in 2016.
Below, Joy answers some burning questions we had after that finale including what’s up with Dolores’ test, why Charlotte Hale made that game-changing decision and whether humanity really is toast.
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- 8/16/2022
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Spoiler Alert: This review contains spoilers for the Season 4 finale of “Westworld,” entitled “Que Será, Será,” now streaming on HBO Max.
Reviewing the first four episodes of “Westworld’s” fourth season, I noted that the show seemed unnecessarily convoluted, purposefully obscuring what was even happening until the season’s fourth episode. With the back half of “Westworld’s” season having now aired — the finale dropped August 14 — that convolution seems to have served a purpose. The show spent half its 2022 episodes avoiding getting to the point because, once there, there wasn’t that much to say.
The reveal at midseason was that the android Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) had come up with a way to control humanity, and that all the people in her New York City were performing for her and her kind’s amusement. It was a neat reversal of the show’s original premise, wherein robots acted out...
Reviewing the first four episodes of “Westworld’s” fourth season, I noted that the show seemed unnecessarily convoluted, purposefully obscuring what was even happening until the season’s fourth episode. With the back half of “Westworld’s” season having now aired — the finale dropped August 14 — that convolution seems to have served a purpose. The show spent half its 2022 episodes avoiding getting to the point because, once there, there wasn’t that much to say.
The reveal at midseason was that the android Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) had come up with a way to control humanity, and that all the people in her New York City were performing for her and her kind’s amusement. It was a neat reversal of the show’s original premise, wherein robots acted out...
- 8/15/2022
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Warning: This podcast post-mortem contains spoilers about tonight’s Westworld season 4 finale “Que Será, Será”
We are a long, long way from the park. Remember, the western town from season one? The season 4 finale of HBO’s Westworld wrapped up tonight after a melee between humans and hosts and more questions about who is alive and who’s in the virtual Valley of the Beyond. On a special Crew Call tonight we talk with Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy to sort it all out.
You can listen to our conversation here:
Season 4 was set seven years after season 3’s revolution where we saw Maeve (Thandiwe Newton), Caleb (Aaron Paul) and a drained Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) take out the humungous, predictive supercomputer Rehoboam. Well, there was more revolution in last Sunday’s episode and in tonight’s with bodies of humans and hosts lying about.
Says Joys, “Humans and hosts, they...
We are a long, long way from the park. Remember, the western town from season one? The season 4 finale of HBO’s Westworld wrapped up tonight after a melee between humans and hosts and more questions about who is alive and who’s in the virtual Valley of the Beyond. On a special Crew Call tonight we talk with Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy to sort it all out.
You can listen to our conversation here:
Season 4 was set seven years after season 3’s revolution where we saw Maeve (Thandiwe Newton), Caleb (Aaron Paul) and a drained Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) take out the humungous, predictive supercomputer Rehoboam. Well, there was more revolution in last Sunday’s episode and in tonight’s with bodies of humans and hosts lying about.
Says Joys, “Humans and hosts, they...
- 8/15/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
This article contains spoilers for Westworld season 4 episode 8.
For as secretive as Westworld can be about its many twists and turns, sometimes the show just comes right out and tells you its ultimate ending. As it did many times for the conclusion of Westworld season 4.
Ever since midway through its third season, Westworld has been surprisingly open and upfront about the fact that the end is quickly coming for the human species. In season 3, the supercomputer Rehoboam was built specifically to keep humanity in line, control their violent impulses, and delay the inevitable apocalypse indefinitely.
Of course, human beings tend to not want to be told what to do. Caleb (Aaron Paul) destroyed Rehoboam, with Maeve’s help (Thandiwe Newton), and freed humanity to decide its own fate. Still, even after Caleb and Maeve’s heroics, Westworld never shied away from the fact that that fate would be pretty bleak.
For as secretive as Westworld can be about its many twists and turns, sometimes the show just comes right out and tells you its ultimate ending. As it did many times for the conclusion of Westworld season 4.
Ever since midway through its third season, Westworld has been surprisingly open and upfront about the fact that the end is quickly coming for the human species. In season 3, the supercomputer Rehoboam was built specifically to keep humanity in line, control their violent impulses, and delay the inevitable apocalypse indefinitely.
Of course, human beings tend to not want to be told what to do. Caleb (Aaron Paul) destroyed Rehoboam, with Maeve’s help (Thandiwe Newton), and freed humanity to decide its own fate. Still, even after Caleb and Maeve’s heroics, Westworld never shied away from the fact that that fate would be pretty bleak.
- 8/15/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
This article contains spoilers for Westworld season 4.
"Westworld" is not an easy show to love. Every season, the series slowly unravels big mysteries and forces us to think differently about narratives, only to completely drop the ball in the finale. The season 1 finale was probably the best of the series, wrapping up the complex storylines and giving a semi-satisfying conclusion to the main character arcs. Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) finally killed her maker, Dr. Ford (Anthony Hopkins.) Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) escaped the park and was on her way to find her host daughter. William (Ed Harris) had found the perfect game at last — one where the stakes were as high for him as they had been for everyone else. Unfortunately, every finale since has been kind of a letdown, as the mystery box storytelling sets viewers up with unrealistic expectations of their own perfect ending.
In the season 4 finale, which...
"Westworld" is not an easy show to love. Every season, the series slowly unravels big mysteries and forces us to think differently about narratives, only to completely drop the ball in the finale. The season 1 finale was probably the best of the series, wrapping up the complex storylines and giving a semi-satisfying conclusion to the main character arcs. Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) finally killed her maker, Dr. Ford (Anthony Hopkins.) Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) escaped the park and was on her way to find her host daughter. William (Ed Harris) had found the perfect game at last — one where the stakes were as high for him as they had been for everyone else. Unfortunately, every finale since has been kind of a letdown, as the mystery box storytelling sets viewers up with unrealistic expectations of their own perfect ending.
In the season 4 finale, which...
- 8/15/2022
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
This Westworld review contains spoilers.
Westworld Season 4 Episode 8
William (Ed Harris) was always obsessed with the creations of Robert Ford. He wasn’t exactly into the narrative, but he was in search of something else. Something deeper, something more meaningful, called to him. William knew it as the maze, and all he wanted was to find his way to the center of it any way he could. Usually, especially as he aged into the Man In Black, that meant violence. He understands violence, and he’s at home when there’s shooting, screaming, and bleeding. The guy in a black Stetson stalking through the streets of Manhattan gunning down everyone in his math might not be the same as the human, flesh-and-blood William, but as he says later in the episode, he’s just William’s impulses in an evolved body. Meat does not make a person, unless it’s...
Westworld Season 4 Episode 8
William (Ed Harris) was always obsessed with the creations of Robert Ford. He wasn’t exactly into the narrative, but he was in search of something else. Something deeper, something more meaningful, called to him. William knew it as the maze, and all he wanted was to find his way to the center of it any way he could. Usually, especially as he aged into the Man In Black, that meant violence. He understands violence, and he’s at home when there’s shooting, screaming, and bleeding. The guy in a black Stetson stalking through the streets of Manhattan gunning down everyone in his math might not be the same as the human, flesh-and-blood William, but as he says later in the episode, he’s just William’s impulses in an evolved body. Meat does not make a person, unless it’s...
- 8/15/2022
- by Ron Hogan
- Den of Geek
Note: The following contains spoilers for “Westworld” Season 4, Episode 7.
“Westworld” viewers know well enough by now that “dead” doesn’t always mean dead in the HBO sci-fi series, but Episode 7 of Season 4 sure seemed to seal the fate of one of the series’ most beloved characters.
Since returning from the Sublime, Bernard has maintained that after running simulations, there is only one way to save the world – and in that scenario, he doesn’t make it out alive. After teaming up with a revived Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) to take on Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) and her tower that has human citizens of New York City under control, Bernard was confronted by the William host (Ed Harris) and subsequently shot to death.
When asked by TheWrap if Bernard is dead in a recent interview about the episode, Wright replied simply, “It seems so.”
The actor wouldn’t let on more than that,...
“Westworld” viewers know well enough by now that “dead” doesn’t always mean dead in the HBO sci-fi series, but Episode 7 of Season 4 sure seemed to seal the fate of one of the series’ most beloved characters.
Since returning from the Sublime, Bernard has maintained that after running simulations, there is only one way to save the world – and in that scenario, he doesn’t make it out alive. After teaming up with a revived Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) to take on Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) and her tower that has human citizens of New York City under control, Bernard was confronted by the William host (Ed Harris) and subsequently shot to death.
When asked by TheWrap if Bernard is dead in a recent interview about the episode, Wright replied simply, “It seems so.”
The actor wouldn’t let on more than that,...
- 8/8/2022
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
This Westworld review contains spoilers.
Westworld Season 4 Episode 7
After watching “Metanoia,” I sat down in the living room with my wife and attempted to explain to her just why Westworld is so much fun for me, and specifically why Ed Harris is such a joy to watch. I spoke about his obvious acting prowess; you don’t get nominated or win as many awards as he has without having chops. I talked a little bit about the character he’s introduced playing, the Man In Black, and how he relates to the fearsome Yul Brynner Gunslinger character from the 1973 film. I talked about how the character, in the fourth season, routinely talks to a Host version of himself about the nature of reality and the philosophical question of what it means to be human. I talked about all the violent set pieces. I talked about the ensemble cast, which only seems to improve every season.
Westworld Season 4 Episode 7
After watching “Metanoia,” I sat down in the living room with my wife and attempted to explain to her just why Westworld is so much fun for me, and specifically why Ed Harris is such a joy to watch. I spoke about his obvious acting prowess; you don’t get nominated or win as many awards as he has without having chops. I talked a little bit about the character he’s introduced playing, the Man In Black, and how he relates to the fearsome Yul Brynner Gunslinger character from the 1973 film. I talked about how the character, in the fourth season, routinely talks to a Host version of himself about the nature of reality and the philosophical question of what it means to be human. I talked about all the violent set pieces. I talked about the ensemble cast, which only seems to improve every season.
- 8/8/2022
- by Ron Hogan
- Den of Geek
This Westworld review contains spoilers.
Westworld Season 4 Episode 6
Anyone who has ever played video games can empathize with Caleb (Aaron Paul) during “Fidelity,” the sixth episode of the fourth season of Westworld. I was never the kind of person who could sit and do a speed-run of any game, probably because I didn’t have the hand-eye coordination necessary to succeed, and I tend to like to explore games rather than just going from point A to point B as quickly as possible. Give me side quests. Give me Easter eggs. Give me time-sucking distractions. Granted, I’m generally not playing video games in an effort to stay alive, but my video game method looks very similar to the way Caleb slowly builds his way to an attempted escape from Charlotte Hale’s secret facility in Delos’s Manhattan headquarters.
This isn’t Caleb’s first escape attempt, and with every attempted escape,...
Westworld Season 4 Episode 6
Anyone who has ever played video games can empathize with Caleb (Aaron Paul) during “Fidelity,” the sixth episode of the fourth season of Westworld. I was never the kind of person who could sit and do a speed-run of any game, probably because I didn’t have the hand-eye coordination necessary to succeed, and I tend to like to explore games rather than just going from point A to point B as quickly as possible. Give me side quests. Give me Easter eggs. Give me time-sucking distractions. Granted, I’m generally not playing video games in an effort to stay alive, but my video game method looks very similar to the way Caleb slowly builds his way to an attempted escape from Charlotte Hale’s secret facility in Delos’s Manhattan headquarters.
This isn’t Caleb’s first escape attempt, and with every attempted escape,...
- 8/1/2022
- by Ron Hogan
- Den of Geek
This Westworld review contains spoilers.
Westworld Season 4 Episode 5
From its first season, Westworld has been a show concerned primarily with outliers. Dolores Abernathy on her quest for vengeance against humanity is an outlier. Maeve Millay on her quest for self-discovery is an outlier. The whole purpose of Rehoboam was to hunt down and remove outliers from the world, because they’re dangerous to the survival of the human race. And now, even with humanity under the control of the Hosts and the Hosts prowling the streets of New York City like minor deities, there are still flaws in the system. Outliers still break free from control, like puppets snapping their strings. Outliers who can see beyond the curtains into the backstage area itself, to see just how they’re being controlled. Outliers who infect others with their sanity, spreading through the system like a disease that can’t be completely eradicated,...
Westworld Season 4 Episode 5
From its first season, Westworld has been a show concerned primarily with outliers. Dolores Abernathy on her quest for vengeance against humanity is an outlier. Maeve Millay on her quest for self-discovery is an outlier. The whole purpose of Rehoboam was to hunt down and remove outliers from the world, because they’re dangerous to the survival of the human race. And now, even with humanity under the control of the Hosts and the Hosts prowling the streets of New York City like minor deities, there are still flaws in the system. Outliers still break free from control, like puppets snapping their strings. Outliers who can see beyond the curtains into the backstage area itself, to see just how they’re being controlled. Outliers who infect others with their sanity, spreading through the system like a disease that can’t be completely eradicated,...
- 7/25/2022
- by Ron Hogan
- Den of Geek
Westworld this week, with the fifth episode of Season 4, spent a great deal of time with Christina and the truth behind her reality.
“Zhuangzi” opens with William dining with a wealthy couple. The mood is light, the conversation business-focused but relaxed. The cordiality vanishes as William leans in and tells them he can do whatever he wants to either of them and that they don’t have the power or control they think they do.
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“Zhuangzi” opens with William dining with a wealthy couple. The mood is light, the conversation business-focused but relaxed. The cordiality vanishes as William leans in and tells them he can do whatever he wants to either of them and that they don’t have the power or control they think they do.
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- 7/25/2022
- by Hayden Mears
- TVLine.com
This article contains spoilers for Westworld season 4 episode 4.
If there’s one thing that Westworld loves, it’s a nonlinear timeline. If there are two things Westworld loves, it’s a nonlinear timeline and pretending that it’s really not going to do the nonlinear timeline thing this time around.
Through three episodes, the fourth season of HBO’s sci-fi epic really did seem like it was playing things straight. Series producer Lisa Joy was uncommonly straightforward in pre-season interviews, saying that this batch of episodes would take place seven years after the events of season 3.
“I was thinking (following up season 3) would be really challenging, so I just bypassed it and cut seven years into the future,” Joy told Den of Geek prior to the season’s release. “Telling the story of war wasn’t something that personally interested me for this season. Because, to me, war is brutish and terrible,...
If there’s one thing that Westworld loves, it’s a nonlinear timeline. If there are two things Westworld loves, it’s a nonlinear timeline and pretending that it’s really not going to do the nonlinear timeline thing this time around.
Through three episodes, the fourth season of HBO’s sci-fi epic really did seem like it was playing things straight. Series producer Lisa Joy was uncommonly straightforward in pre-season interviews, saying that this batch of episodes would take place seven years after the events of season 3.
“I was thinking (following up season 3) would be really challenging, so I just bypassed it and cut seven years into the future,” Joy told Den of Geek prior to the season’s release. “Telling the story of war wasn’t something that personally interested me for this season. Because, to me, war is brutish and terrible,...
- 7/18/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Aurora Perrineau is going with the flow. In the third episode of Westworld season four, Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) drags Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth) to the barren desert, where they meet a group of rebels, including the mysterious C (Aurora). Bernard tells her about a weapon that can help fight Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson), but her friends are weary to trust the duo. Nonetheless, she takes a chance on them and follows them into the unknown—an idea that Aurora is familiar with. When she joined the series for season four, the actress was completely in the dark about her character, who is revealed to be Frankie, the daughter of Caleb (Aaron Paul), in the July 17 episode. "The thing is with Westworld you...
- 7/18/2022
- E! Online
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[This story contains spoilers for Westworld season 4 episode “Well Enough Alone.”]
Ed Harris does not know how it is going to end for William, aka The Man in Black, when Westworld concludes with its fifth and final season, but he has some thoughts.
The Oscar-nominated actor has played the role of the sadistic park owner and routine guest since the premiere episode of the HBO series in 2016. In his younger days, William (played by Jimmi Simpson) seems like a good guy. But he is ultimately corrupted by Westworld where he visits to enact his wicked deeds on the robots. That is, until the uprising at the end of season one after the hosts become self-aware. Driving his wife to commit suicide and killing his daughter (although he thought she was a host) left William with nothing. And when viewers catch up with him in Season 4, it is learned...
[This story contains spoilers for Westworld season 4 episode “Well Enough Alone.”]
Ed Harris does not know how it is going to end for William, aka The Man in Black, when Westworld concludes with its fifth and final season, but he has some thoughts.
The Oscar-nominated actor has played the role of the sadistic park owner and routine guest since the premiere episode of the HBO series in 2016. In his younger days, William (played by Jimmi Simpson) seems like a good guy. But he is ultimately corrupted by Westworld where he visits to enact his wicked deeds on the robots. That is, until the uprising at the end of season one after the hosts become self-aware. Driving his wife to commit suicide and killing his daughter (although he thought she was a host) left William with nothing. And when viewers catch up with him in Season 4, it is learned...
- 7/4/2022
- by Ryan Parker
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This Westworld review contains spoilers.
Westworld Season 4 Episode 2
One of the biggest strengths of the first season of Westworld was its massive ensemble cast. Some of them were known performers taking on new characters, with established actors like Ed Harris as the mysterious Man in Black and Anthony Hopkins adding a little class to the story of a very adult theme park full of robots just waiting to go kill-crazy. However, the performers who weren’t as well-known stood out because they all had very distinctive looks, and few characters in Westworld stood out quite like Angela Sarafyan. With her striking, wide-set hazel eyes, Sarafyan’s Clementine Pennyfeather was undoubtedly a favorite of guests of the park, if only because of her kind heart and assigned profession. The “hooker with a heart of gold” trope brought to life.
Clementine always had a dreamy sort of innocence, if only because she...
Westworld Season 4 Episode 2
One of the biggest strengths of the first season of Westworld was its massive ensemble cast. Some of them were known performers taking on new characters, with established actors like Ed Harris as the mysterious Man in Black and Anthony Hopkins adding a little class to the story of a very adult theme park full of robots just waiting to go kill-crazy. However, the performers who weren’t as well-known stood out because they all had very distinctive looks, and few characters in Westworld stood out quite like Angela Sarafyan. With her striking, wide-set hazel eyes, Sarafyan’s Clementine Pennyfeather was undoubtedly a favorite of guests of the park, if only because of her kind heart and assigned profession. The “hooker with a heart of gold” trope brought to life.
Clementine always had a dreamy sort of innocence, if only because she...
- 7/4/2022
- by Ron Hogan
- Den of Geek
Warning: This interview contains spoilers from HBO’s Westworld episode 401 “The Auguries”.
It’s a whole new Westworld, and, man, does it seem peaceful since Maeve and Caleb took out the predictive-ai, big-think computer Rehoboam last season. Dolores even helped, sacrificing her life.
So, let’s bring everyone up to speed in regards to what happened tonight:
—Ed Harris’ Man in Black a.k.a William is walking around like he’s got a mind of his own and lots of power. But, remember, Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) killed what seemed like a human version of him in the season 3 finale, and sent a host of the guy out into the world. Mib wants to buy a water dam off a drug cartel. He makes them an offer they can’t refuse, but yet they do initially refuse: Sell it today, “or you give it to me for nothing tomorrow...
It’s a whole new Westworld, and, man, does it seem peaceful since Maeve and Caleb took out the predictive-ai, big-think computer Rehoboam last season. Dolores even helped, sacrificing her life.
So, let’s bring everyone up to speed in regards to what happened tonight:
—Ed Harris’ Man in Black a.k.a William is walking around like he’s got a mind of his own and lots of power. But, remember, Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) killed what seemed like a human version of him in the season 3 finale, and sent a host of the guy out into the world. Mib wants to buy a water dam off a drug cartel. He makes them an offer they can’t refuse, but yet they do initially refuse: Sell it today, “or you give it to me for nothing tomorrow...
- 6/27/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
This article contains spoilers for all of Westworld season 3.
Remember back to Westworld season 3, if you will.
It’s been three months since the Westworld massacre, and Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) still has work to do. She’s escaped the boundaries of Delos’ adult theme park, has made her way to a dystopian future version of Los Angeles, and is actively hunting down anyone connected to the artificial intelligence program known as Rehoboam. The overturned stones lead her to Liam Dempsey Jr. (John Gallagher Jr.), the failson of the founder of Incite, who maintain the world-controlling artificial intelligence. He’s a useless money-suck living off his old man’s accomplishments; the true power behind the throne is a man known as Serac (Vincent Cassel), the world’s only secretive billionaire. Dolores learns this secret, but only after killing Dempsey’s right hand man Connells (Tommy Flanagan) and replacing him with an identical host.
Remember back to Westworld season 3, if you will.
It’s been three months since the Westworld massacre, and Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) still has work to do. She’s escaped the boundaries of Delos’ adult theme park, has made her way to a dystopian future version of Los Angeles, and is actively hunting down anyone connected to the artificial intelligence program known as Rehoboam. The overturned stones lead her to Liam Dempsey Jr. (John Gallagher Jr.), the failson of the founder of Incite, who maintain the world-controlling artificial intelligence. He’s a useless money-suck living off his old man’s accomplishments; the true power behind the throne is a man known as Serac (Vincent Cassel), the world’s only secretive billionaire. Dolores learns this secret, but only after killing Dempsey’s right hand man Connells (Tommy Flanagan) and replacing him with an identical host.
- 6/26/2022
- by Ron Hogan
- Den of Geek
“Westworld” is one of the most compelling shows on television. It’s also one of the most confusing.
HBO’s prestige series, developed by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan and based on the movie by Michael Crichton (that served as something of a prototype for his later novel “Jurassic Park”), is knotty and complex, weaving a complicated narrative out of the ongoing battle between humans and lifelike robots (called “hosts”) in a technologically-advanced near-future. Season 4, which premieres on June 26, takes place seven years after the events of the previous season (which aired more than two years ago) and is even further away from the theme-park-robots-run-amok conceit of the first season.
All of which is to say: you probably need a refresher. And we are here to deliver that refresher. At the very least, it’ll keep you from scratching your chin and running to Wikipedia every few minutes.
Mild spoilers...
HBO’s prestige series, developed by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan and based on the movie by Michael Crichton (that served as something of a prototype for his later novel “Jurassic Park”), is knotty and complex, weaving a complicated narrative out of the ongoing battle between humans and lifelike robots (called “hosts”) in a technologically-advanced near-future. Season 4, which premieres on June 26, takes place seven years after the events of the previous season (which aired more than two years ago) and is even further away from the theme-park-robots-run-amok conceit of the first season.
All of which is to say: you probably need a refresher. And we are here to deliver that refresher. At the very least, it’ll keep you from scratching your chin and running to Wikipedia every few minutes.
Mild spoilers...
- 6/25/2022
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
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Is good Dolores Abernathy back? After a two-year wait, Westworld fans will finally find out when the sci-fi drama series’ fourth season premieres Sunday, June 26 on HBO and HBO Max.
As seen in the official trailer that dropped last week, the eight-episode series introduces a new fictional theme park world inspired by the 1930s. Viewers will also see the return of some familiar faces, including Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), Maeve (Thandiwe Newton), Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson), Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), William/the Man in Black (Ed Harris), Caleb (Aaron Paul), Teddy (James Marsden), Clementine (Angela Sarafyan) and Ashley (Luke Hemsworth) — though it remains to be seen if they are who they appear to be.
Below, keep reading to find out how...
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Is good Dolores Abernathy back? After a two-year wait, Westworld fans will finally find out when the sci-fi drama series’ fourth season premieres Sunday, June 26 on HBO and HBO Max.
As seen in the official trailer that dropped last week, the eight-episode series introduces a new fictional theme park world inspired by the 1930s. Viewers will also see the return of some familiar faces, including Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), Maeve (Thandiwe Newton), Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson), Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), William/the Man in Black (Ed Harris), Caleb (Aaron Paul), Teddy (James Marsden), Clementine (Angela Sarafyan) and Ashley (Luke Hemsworth) — though it remains to be seen if they are who they appear to be.
Below, keep reading to find out how...
- 6/24/2022
- by Danielle Directo-Meston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
While HBO’s “Westworld” was originally based on the 1973 movie starring Yu Brynner, the series quickly moved beyond its cinematic roots into the world of role playing games and overlapping storylines before moving outside the walls of the park into the real world in Season 3. Season 4, returning to HBO on June 26, feels inspired by both the 1976 feature film sequel “Futureworld” and “The Matrix” as the characters (and the audience) struggle to determine what’s real and what’s a simulation.
The first two seasons of “Westworld” explored a massive live-action open-world role-playing game run by Delos Corporation. A destination experience where wealthy human guests can live out their fantasies through various themed experiences in the park. The guests, given free reign to be on their worst behavior, often tortured the lifelike robot “hosts”, stuck in the park on an endless horrific loop. The guests, like the hosts, are constantly observed...
The first two seasons of “Westworld” explored a massive live-action open-world role-playing game run by Delos Corporation. A destination experience where wealthy human guests can live out their fantasies through various themed experiences in the park. The guests, given free reign to be on their worst behavior, often tortured the lifelike robot “hosts”, stuck in the park on an endless horrific loop. The guests, like the hosts, are constantly observed...
- 6/24/2022
- by Karama Horne
- The Wrap
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I’m no technical expert, but did anybody ever consider unplugging Westworld for 30 seconds and then plugging it back in?
I ask because for a show in which nobody can ever really die — or, if they do die, they can be brought back as robots — and, after the third season, anybody can apparently change identities with just the flick of a switch, HBO’s Westworld is extremely bad at resetting itself.
As its fourth season begins, Westworld has settled into what is now a comfortable routine: Take a couple of episodes to establish the new normal, even if that amount of exposition is either completely unnecessary or woefully insufficient. Find an interesting rhythm for a few episodes at midseason. Unravel into convoluted chaos, wherein it becomes clear either that nothing really makes enough sense to remember or it becomes even clearer that there...
I’m no technical expert, but did anybody ever consider unplugging Westworld for 30 seconds and then plugging it back in?
I ask because for a show in which nobody can ever really die — or, if they do die, they can be brought back as robots — and, after the third season, anybody can apparently change identities with just the flick of a switch, HBO’s Westworld is extremely bad at resetting itself.
As its fourth season begins, Westworld has settled into what is now a comfortable routine: Take a couple of episodes to establish the new normal, even if that amount of exposition is either completely unnecessary or woefully insufficient. Find an interesting rhythm for a few episodes at midseason. Unravel into convoluted chaos, wherein it becomes clear either that nothing really makes enough sense to remember or it becomes even clearer that there...
- 6/24/2022
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Please remain seated, strapped in and keep all arms and legs inside the thrill-ride that is sure to be “Westworld” Season 4. Premiering June 26, the HBO sci-fi thriller will, according to its new trailer, venture into a new theme park reminiscent of the gangster era.
Adapted from “Jurassic Park” writer Michael Crichton’s 1973 film of the same name, the series stars Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Aaron Paul and Angela Sarafyan. Season 4 will also see James Marsden’s return (the actor was in Season 1 and had a recurring role in Season 2). New cast members for the fourth installment include Oscar winner Ariana DeBose, Aurora Perrineau and Daniel Wu.
Details are scant surrounding the new season, as the show’s EPs and cast remain tight-lipped about what viewers can expect. The trailer doesn’t give much away, except for spooky and dystopian vibes.
Also...
Adapted from “Jurassic Park” writer Michael Crichton’s 1973 film of the same name, the series stars Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Aaron Paul and Angela Sarafyan. Season 4 will also see James Marsden’s return (the actor was in Season 1 and had a recurring role in Season 2). New cast members for the fourth installment include Oscar winner Ariana DeBose, Aurora Perrineau and Daniel Wu.
Details are scant surrounding the new season, as the show’s EPs and cast remain tight-lipped about what viewers can expect. The trailer doesn’t give much away, except for spooky and dystopian vibes.
Also...
- 6/16/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
Updated, 11:20 Am: HBO has dropped the official trailer for Season 4 of Westworld, giving us a much fuller picture of the upcoming season, following release of the teaser trailer last month. The trailer opens with new character Christina, played by Evan Rachel Wood, following the death of her original character Dolores last season. The trailer also features other main players, including Ed Harris’ Man In Black, Thandiwe Newton’s Maeve, along with others, and way too many flies. Check out the new trailer above and the original teaser below.
Previous, May 9: Released first as an Easter egg for rabid Westworld fans, HBO made it official and opened up the Season 4 for everyone.
Everything seems to look calm and inviting in the sci-fi epic — until the Man in Black shows up. Watch it above.
The drama is returning for its eight-episode fourth season on June 26. Evan Rachel Wood will be back,...
Previous, May 9: Released first as an Easter egg for rabid Westworld fans, HBO made it official and opened up the Season 4 for everyone.
Everything seems to look calm and inviting in the sci-fi epic — until the Man in Black shows up. Watch it above.
The drama is returning for its eight-episode fourth season on June 26. Evan Rachel Wood will be back,...
- 6/16/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
HBO recently dropped their teaser for “Westworld” season 4 and they didn’t disappoint. With the upcoming release of “Westworld” season 4, there are bound to be plenty of questions about what’s in store for the new season. Luckily, we have all the answers you’re looking for!
When will the “Westworld” Season 4 Premiere Date Be?
Let’s discuss the release date of the most anticipated HBO series this year. “Westworld” season 4 will premiere on Sunday, June 26th at 9pm Est on HBO and HBO Max in the US and Sky Atlantic and Now TV in the UK. So mark your calendars and be sure to tune in!
Before the series’ renewal, creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan mentioned to Variety they wanted to make at least one more season to complete the Westworld tale.
Check Out the “Westworld” Season 4 Trailer
Released by HBO on May 10th, the teaser for “Westworld...
When will the “Westworld” Season 4 Premiere Date Be?
Let’s discuss the release date of the most anticipated HBO series this year. “Westworld” season 4 will premiere on Sunday, June 26th at 9pm Est on HBO and HBO Max in the US and Sky Atlantic and Now TV in the UK. So mark your calendars and be sure to tune in!
Before the series’ renewal, creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan mentioned to Variety they wanted to make at least one more season to complete the Westworld tale.
Check Out the “Westworld” Season 4 Trailer
Released by HBO on May 10th, the teaser for “Westworld...
- 5/20/2022
- by Buddy TV
- buddytv.com
It’s the damndest thing: after spending two full seasons trying to get out of the park, the most enticing thing about HBO’s new enigmatic teaser trailer for Westworld Season 4 is the suggestion the robots might be going home. Have you ever seen anything so full of splendor?
It’s hard to say otherwise while watching the new Westworld trailer. There we again see the bright blue skies and wide open prairies that marked the first two seasons of the show. And it’s by far the best thing the sizzle reel. You see it hinted at as Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) stares at a burning tree under a blazing sun, and again in its more insidious form when an apparently still enslaved host offers an unseen visitor their choice of white or black hats.
Now, admittedly, there is some wiggle room as to whether what we’re seeing are...
It’s hard to say otherwise while watching the new Westworld trailer. There we again see the bright blue skies and wide open prairies that marked the first two seasons of the show. And it’s by far the best thing the sizzle reel. You see it hinted at as Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) stares at a burning tree under a blazing sun, and again in its more insidious form when an apparently still enslaved host offers an unseen visitor their choice of white or black hats.
Now, admittedly, there is some wiggle room as to whether what we’re seeing are...
- 5/10/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
These violent delights have violent ends. And while viewers may have thought that Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) met her end when she sacrificed herself at the end of season three, it seems she's once again risen from the dead. The teaser, which HBO released on May 10, shows a redheaded Dolores walking through New York City very much alive. The teaser also features Maeve (Thandiwe Newton), Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson), Clementine (Angela Sarafyan), Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth) and Caleb (Aaron Paul), along with Ed Harris' Man in Black. None of the characters speak in the preview, so the caption is one of the few hints ofwhat's to come: "It doesn't look like anything to...
- 5/10/2022
- E! Online
Exclusive: Season 4 of Westworld, as we first told you, has returned to filming at the Melody Ranch in Santa Clarita, CA; and in a recent conversation with the co-creator of the HBO series, Lisa Joy, on Deadline’s Hero Nation podcast, we learned some more details on what’s bound to unfold. Joy joined us on Hero Nation to discuss her feature directorial debut Reminiscence which hits theaters and HBO Max on Friday.
In regards to season 4 of Westworld, Joy promises “You’re going to see some new worlds that I think are really fun and you’re going to see someone who I kidnapped from Reminiscence in a funny way.”
Already, Reminiscence stars two Westworld alums: Thandiwe Newton and Angela Sarafyan. Reminiscence also stars Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Cliff Curtis, and Daniel Wu.
Despite nabbing one of the actors from her new movie for the HBO series, Joy says...
In regards to season 4 of Westworld, Joy promises “You’re going to see some new worlds that I think are really fun and you’re going to see someone who I kidnapped from Reminiscence in a funny way.”
Already, Reminiscence stars two Westworld alums: Thandiwe Newton and Angela Sarafyan. Reminiscence also stars Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Cliff Curtis, and Daniel Wu.
Despite nabbing one of the actors from her new movie for the HBO series, Joy says...
- 8/19/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Deadline has learned that HBO’s fourth season of Westworld is back in production after a two-day shutdown due to a positive Covid test.
I understand that production resumed as early as last week and continues at the Melody Ranch studio in Newhall, CA; the Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy series having shot there in previous seasons. Other notable western-themed projects which shot at Melody include HBO’s Deadwood and Quentin Tarantino’s movies Django Unchained and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
We’re also hearing that in season 4, Westworld watchers can look forward to the first encounter between Tessa Thompson’s Charlotte Hale-clone and Aaron Paul’s war vet outlier Caleb who was introduced last season; the latter who is apparently a pivotal player in waging a possible war against humans in the real world which has been infiltrated by the park’s robots.
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I understand that production resumed as early as last week and continues at the Melody Ranch studio in Newhall, CA; the Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy series having shot there in previous seasons. Other notable western-themed projects which shot at Melody include HBO’s Deadwood and Quentin Tarantino’s movies Django Unchained and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
We’re also hearing that in season 4, Westworld watchers can look forward to the first encounter between Tessa Thompson’s Charlotte Hale-clone and Aaron Paul’s war vet outlier Caleb who was introduced last season; the latter who is apparently a pivotal player in waging a possible war against humans in the real world which has been infiltrated by the park’s robots.
Westworld last...
- 8/3/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
HBO’s adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Westworld is an interesting barometer of geekdom’s temperature. The first season arrived and it was a cause celebre, given its rich, sprawling cast, topical questions about the role of AI in our lives, and plenty of violence and nudity.
The second season clearly went off the rails and people questioned what was going on even as those who stuck around were intrigued by the glimpses into the other worlds vacationers could visit.
Through it all, there was Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood), the android who went beyond her programming and chose to control her destiny. In the third season, things went back on the right track as you can see for yourself in the just-released Westworld: Season Three: The New World from Warner Home Entertainment.
Delores escaped the park at the end of last season and we see “our” world through her...
The second season clearly went off the rails and people questioned what was going on even as those who stuck around were intrigued by the glimpses into the other worlds vacationers could visit.
Through it all, there was Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood), the android who went beyond her programming and chose to control her destiny. In the third season, things went back on the right track as you can see for yourself in the just-released Westworld: Season Three: The New World from Warner Home Entertainment.
Delores escaped the park at the end of last season and we see “our” world through her...
- 11/19/2020
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
“It’s a reboot, really, because we’re in a whole different world,” says Emmy-nominated Westworld production designer Howard Cummings about season 3, which drops us right inside our world –the human one– outside Delos’ robotic theme park.
And to create a near future Los Angeles, and a near-tomorrow for San Francisco where the Delos HQ is located on the show, Cummings respectively synthesized both cities’ skylines with Singapore and Valencia, Spain.
It’s a world that’s geometric, clean, green, sleek, and organized in shape — a perfect place for host bot Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) to stomp on as she squares off to battle a megalomaniac Serac (Vincent Cassel) who wants control over human beings’ behaviors.
Cummings worked with Westworld VFX supervisor Jay Worth and Dutch architect Bjarke Ingels in creating a future where the hosts would wage a revolution. In creating the Los Angeles skyline, Cummings married the current...
And to create a near future Los Angeles, and a near-tomorrow for San Francisco where the Delos HQ is located on the show, Cummings respectively synthesized both cities’ skylines with Singapore and Valencia, Spain.
It’s a world that’s geometric, clean, green, sleek, and organized in shape — a perfect place for host bot Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) to stomp on as she squares off to battle a megalomaniac Serac (Vincent Cassel) who wants control over human beings’ behaviors.
Cummings worked with Westworld VFX supervisor Jay Worth and Dutch architect Bjarke Ingels in creating a future where the hosts would wage a revolution. In creating the Los Angeles skyline, Cummings married the current...
- 8/26/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Burbank, CA – Since the award-winning drama series’ debut, Westworld has captivated audiences by exploring the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin with the latest season delving into the questions surrounding free will. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be releasing Westworld Season Three: The New World on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, Blu-ray, and DVD on November 17, 2020. Featuring all eight episodes from this new world’s latest evolution, along with close to two hours of bonus content including two exclusive featurettes, Westworld Season Three: The New World is priced to own at $54.97 Srp ($59.99 in Canada) for the 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, $44.98 Srp ($49.99 in Canada) for the Blu-ray and $39.99 Srp ($44.99 in Canada) for the DVD. The 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack includes 2 Ultra HD Blu-ray discs in 4K with Hdr, 2 Blu-ray discs, and Digital Copy. The Blu-ray also includes Digital Copy (Digital Copy US only). Westworld Season Three:...
- 7/11/2020
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
A version of this story about Tessa Thompson and “Westworld” first appeared in the Drama/Comedy/Actors issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
Charlotte Hale has been a staple character on “Westworld” since its beginning, but it wasn’t until this year’s third season that actress Tessa Thompson actually saw her character as a real part of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s HBO sci-fi series. And that’s because for Season 3, Thompson was no longer playing the part of a human but a robot, a role most of her co-stars have been living in since the drama premiered.
“This season felt like for the first time I was really on ‘Westworld,'” she said. “It finally felt like I was inside the show in a game, which was a joy.”
Also Read: 'Westworld' EPs on Dolores' Finale Fate, Hale's New Plan and Jumping Into the Future...
Charlotte Hale has been a staple character on “Westworld” since its beginning, but it wasn’t until this year’s third season that actress Tessa Thompson actually saw her character as a real part of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s HBO sci-fi series. And that’s because for Season 3, Thompson was no longer playing the part of a human but a robot, a role most of her co-stars have been living in since the drama premiered.
“This season felt like for the first time I was really on ‘Westworld,'” she said. “It finally felt like I was inside the show in a game, which was a joy.”
Also Read: 'Westworld' EPs on Dolores' Finale Fate, Hale's New Plan and Jumping Into the Future...
- 7/3/2020
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Today we speak with Westworld EP and writer Denise Thé who takes us inside the writers’ room of one of TV’s most genre-bending shows, and how the socially conscious sci-fi action series clicks in all its nuances.
Thé wrote two key episodes this past season, episode 3 “The Absence of Field” in which we step inside Charlotte Hale’s (Tessa Thompson) life in the real world, and learn that she’s having connections problems with her ex-husband and young son. But is it really Charlotte? It seems Dolores has put a different soul (or pearl) into the body of the Delos Boss, and Charlotte can’t stand to be in her own skin to the point of cutting herself. Oh, and it looks like she’s a mole who’s allowed a corporate invader (Vincent Cassel) inside Delos. Thé also penned the chilling season finale “Crisis Theory” in which Dolores...
Thé wrote two key episodes this past season, episode 3 “The Absence of Field” in which we step inside Charlotte Hale’s (Tessa Thompson) life in the real world, and learn that she’s having connections problems with her ex-husband and young son. But is it really Charlotte? It seems Dolores has put a different soul (or pearl) into the body of the Delos Boss, and Charlotte can’t stand to be in her own skin to the point of cutting herself. Oh, and it looks like she’s a mole who’s allowed a corporate invader (Vincent Cassel) inside Delos. Thé also penned the chilling season finale “Crisis Theory” in which Dolores...
- 7/1/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“Westworld” season 3 upped the action for Tessa Thompson’s character Charlotte Hale, and she loved every bit of it.
In her “Actors on Actors” conversation with Ramy Youssef, star and creator of Hulu’s “Ramy,” Thompson said she got to go “full Terminator” in some of the intense action sequences on the latest season.
She first tried to explain her complicated story arc on the HBO show’s latest season, which involved some sci-fi body switching. In the first season of “Westworld,” she played a top executive at the robot theme park. Later, she was killed and replaced by a host, a robot replica who could pass for human.
However, season 3 revealed that it wasn’t Charlotte’s consciousness inside her host body, but Dolores Abernathy’s (Evan Rachel Wood), a host who escaped Westworld and had a nefarious plan for the rest of humanity.
“There’s so much fun to play with that.
In her “Actors on Actors” conversation with Ramy Youssef, star and creator of Hulu’s “Ramy,” Thompson said she got to go “full Terminator” in some of the intense action sequences on the latest season.
She first tried to explain her complicated story arc on the HBO show’s latest season, which involved some sci-fi body switching. In the first season of “Westworld,” she played a top executive at the robot theme park. Later, she was killed and replaced by a host, a robot replica who could pass for human.
However, season 3 revealed that it wasn’t Charlotte’s consciousness inside her host body, but Dolores Abernathy’s (Evan Rachel Wood), a host who escaped Westworld and had a nefarious plan for the rest of humanity.
“There’s so much fun to play with that.
- 7/1/2020
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
Following her breakthrough role in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Thirteen” (2003), Evan Rachel Wood became Hollywood’s go-to actress for a certain kind of irresistible archetype: The wise-beyond-her-years teenager with heaps of attitude masking a deep well of vulnerability. Now, nearly two decades later and comfortably mid-career (she started so young), Wood has weathered the transition from promising child-actor to serious Hollywood player about as gracefully as anyone could.
Following back-to-back roles in two critically acclaimed films — Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe” (2007) and Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” (2008) — Wood shrewdly rode the wave of peak TV on HBO’s pedigreed shoulders. Following two seasons as a Sapphic vampire in “True Blood” and a self-satirizing turn in the savagely brilliant “Doll & Em,” she landed the role that would bring her not only international acclaim, but two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama.
The role, of course, is Dolores Abernathy,...
Following back-to-back roles in two critically acclaimed films — Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe” (2007) and Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” (2008) — Wood shrewdly rode the wave of peak TV on HBO’s pedigreed shoulders. Following two seasons as a Sapphic vampire in “True Blood” and a self-satirizing turn in the savagely brilliant “Doll & Em,” she landed the role that would bring her not only international acclaim, but two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama.
The role, of course, is Dolores Abernathy,...
- 6/26/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Following her breakthrough role in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Thirteen” (2003), Evan Rachel Wood became Hollywood’s go-to actress for a certain kind of irresistible archetype: The wise-beyond-her-years teenager with heaps of attitude masking a deep well of vulnerability. Now, nearly two decades later and comfortably mid-career (she started so young), Wood has weathered the transition from promising child-actor to serious Hollywood player about as gracefully as anyone could.
Following back-to-back roles in two critically acclaimed films — Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe” (2007) and Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” (2008) — Wood shrewdly rode the wave of peak TV on HBO’s pedigreed shoulders. Following two seasons as a Sapphic vampire in “True Blood” and a self-satirizing turn in the savagely brilliant “Doll & Em,” she landed the role that would bring her not only international acclaim, but two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama.
The role, of course, is Dolores Abernathy,...
Following back-to-back roles in two critically acclaimed films — Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe” (2007) and Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” (2008) — Wood shrewdly rode the wave of peak TV on HBO’s pedigreed shoulders. Following two seasons as a Sapphic vampire in “True Blood” and a self-satirizing turn in the savagely brilliant “Doll & Em,” she landed the role that would bring her not only international acclaim, but two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama.
The role, of course, is Dolores Abernathy,...
- 6/26/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Thompson on Hollywood
“As an actor you’re always trying to fill in the blanks,” describes Tessa Thompson who plays Charlotte Hale on“Westworld,” “This season was discovering all the things about her that I did not know.” Season 3 of HBO’s science fiction epic pushed Thompson’s role into the spotlight as she grappled with major questions of identity. Watch the exclusive video interview above.
See Jay Worth interview: ‘Westworld’ VFX Supervisor
While most actors would be finding some sense of “comfortability” three seasons into a season and settling into their roles a bit, Thompson jokes “that is just never the case on this show… I think it requires dexterity.” Her role is a prime example of this. Charlotte Hale was actually killed off in Season 2, but the android Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) is inhabiting a copy of her body in Season 3. The tug of war between her Dolores programming and the...
See Jay Worth interview: ‘Westworld’ VFX Supervisor
While most actors would be finding some sense of “comfortability” three seasons into a season and settling into their roles a bit, Thompson jokes “that is just never the case on this show… I think it requires dexterity.” Her role is a prime example of this. Charlotte Hale was actually killed off in Season 2, but the android Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) is inhabiting a copy of her body in Season 3. The tug of war between her Dolores programming and the...
- 6/23/2020
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
(Warning: This post contains all the spoilers for the Season 3 finale of “Westworld.”)
“Westworld” ended its third season Sunday with a finale that brought Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Caleb’s (Aaron Paul) battle against Serac (Vincent Cassel) and Maeve (Thandie Newton) over the fates of human- and Host-kind to a close. Though it wasn’t as conclusive an ending at those that wrapped up seasons 1 and 2, feeling more like the halfway point of this chapter of “Westworld” rather than the actual end of it.
After it was over, Dolores was dead, Serac was alone, and Maeve and Caleb had teamed up to try to save both of their races.
So while this chapter of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s HBO sci-fi series may have revealed many things — Caleb’s full plan to shut down Rehoboam, the identity of the fifth Dolores, what Park 5 was, and the fact that...
“Westworld” ended its third season Sunday with a finale that brought Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Caleb’s (Aaron Paul) battle against Serac (Vincent Cassel) and Maeve (Thandie Newton) over the fates of human- and Host-kind to a close. Though it wasn’t as conclusive an ending at those that wrapped up seasons 1 and 2, feeling more like the halfway point of this chapter of “Westworld” rather than the actual end of it.
After it was over, Dolores was dead, Serac was alone, and Maeve and Caleb had teamed up to try to save both of their races.
So while this chapter of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s HBO sci-fi series may have revealed many things — Caleb’s full plan to shut down Rehoboam, the identity of the fifth Dolores, what Park 5 was, and the fact that...
- 5/5/2020
- by Phil Owen and Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
(We’ve got all the spoilers for the “Westworld” season 3 finale in the article below. You have been warned.)
The third season of HBO’s “Westworld” seemed more straightforward in the first few episodes, but by the end it revealed itself as being just as complicated and weird as season 2 was.
And it ends in a very inconclusive way, echoing the end of “Fight Club” and introducing new mysteries on the way out the door — while season 1 and 2 felt like complete chapters, season 3 instead feels like half of one, with the rest to come later. But the biggest thing we’re wondering about at the moment, having just watched the episode, is the fate of Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), who has been the main character on the show since the beginning.
The season 3 finale of “Westworld” leaves our hero in an uncertain state. She was critical to the end of...
The third season of HBO’s “Westworld” seemed more straightforward in the first few episodes, but by the end it revealed itself as being just as complicated and weird as season 2 was.
And it ends in a very inconclusive way, echoing the end of “Fight Club” and introducing new mysteries on the way out the door — while season 1 and 2 felt like complete chapters, season 3 instead feels like half of one, with the rest to come later. But the biggest thing we’re wondering about at the moment, having just watched the episode, is the fate of Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), who has been the main character on the show since the beginning.
The season 3 finale of “Westworld” leaves our hero in an uncertain state. She was critical to the end of...
- 5/4/2020
- by Phil Owen
- The Wrap
This article contains spoilers for the Westworld Season 3 finale.
We’ve been teased this before. Way back in 2018 and at the end of Westworld Season 2, there was a post-credits scene, just like there is now in season 3. And in that earlier one, William (or a host that thinks he’s William) enters the cavernous ruins of Delos’ Westworld park. Long abandoned and marred by by the sands of time (and the desert outside), this ruined place still exists as a circuitous hell. How better could you described the Sisyphean realization by “William” that he, like James Delos before him, is trapped in a loop where machines now test his fidelity to a long dead human psychology?
Westworld Season 3 returns to that theme twice in its post-credits scene. The first time is the more obvious echo wherein the real William meets his fate, dispatched by a seeming robotic copy of...
We’ve been teased this before. Way back in 2018 and at the end of Westworld Season 2, there was a post-credits scene, just like there is now in season 3. And in that earlier one, William (or a host that thinks he’s William) enters the cavernous ruins of Delos’ Westworld park. Long abandoned and marred by by the sands of time (and the desert outside), this ruined place still exists as a circuitous hell. How better could you described the Sisyphean realization by “William” that he, like James Delos before him, is trapped in a loop where machines now test his fidelity to a long dead human psychology?
Westworld Season 3 returns to that theme twice in its post-credits scene. The first time is the more obvious echo wherein the real William meets his fate, dispatched by a seeming robotic copy of...
- 5/4/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
The following contains spoilers for Westworld season 3 episode 8.
A clear pattern is beginning to emerge at the end of Westworld seasons. Westworld season 1’s finale featured no post-credit scenes, Westworld season 2 had one, and now Westworld season 3 has two. At this rate, roughly half of the Westworld series finale is going to arrive after the credits roll.
These two post-credit scenes from the Westworld season 3 finale leave us with quite a bit to mull over. At first they might seem unrelated, but perhaps there is a narrative throughline between William’s final moments and Bernard’s reawakening in a seemingly distant future. Let’s explore what it could all mean.
The first of the two post-credit scenes is more detailed and action-packed. Now that some time has passed to process it, it’s pretty wild that Westworld reserved William’s death (arguably the show’s most important human character) for after the episode finished.
A clear pattern is beginning to emerge at the end of Westworld seasons. Westworld season 1’s finale featured no post-credit scenes, Westworld season 2 had one, and now Westworld season 3 has two. At this rate, roughly half of the Westworld series finale is going to arrive after the credits roll.
These two post-credit scenes from the Westworld season 3 finale leave us with quite a bit to mull over. At first they might seem unrelated, but perhaps there is a narrative throughline between William’s final moments and Bernard’s reawakening in a seemingly distant future. Let’s explore what it could all mean.
The first of the two post-credit scenes is more detailed and action-packed. Now that some time has passed to process it, it’s pretty wild that Westworld reserved William’s death (arguably the show’s most important human character) for after the episode finished.
- 5/4/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
‘Westworld’ Finale Review: Episode 8 Makes It Hard to See the Beauty in All This Disarray — Spoilers
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for the “Westworld” Season 3 finale, Episode 8, “Crisis Theory.”]
After the obligatory slow cover (“Dark Side of the Moon”) played over the credits and the anticipated post-credits scenes teased the unanticipated Season 4, a simple line lingered, like the rest of “Westworld,” longer than it should. Stated by the last character shown in Season 3 — and arguably the least important — Bernard says, “What’s about to happen was always going to happen.” Played by the inimitable Jeffrey Wright, Bernard’s words always carry a bit more significance than the lines as written, but this one holds implications for the future (if you care) and, more pressing, helps explain what went wrong over the last eight weightless episodes.
Bernard, pacing in a hotel room straight out of “Psycho,” is telling his bleeding buddy Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth) that an “apocalypse” is about to befall mankind; that the end of the world is about to happen, and there...
After the obligatory slow cover (“Dark Side of the Moon”) played over the credits and the anticipated post-credits scenes teased the unanticipated Season 4, a simple line lingered, like the rest of “Westworld,” longer than it should. Stated by the last character shown in Season 3 — and arguably the least important — Bernard says, “What’s about to happen was always going to happen.” Played by the inimitable Jeffrey Wright, Bernard’s words always carry a bit more significance than the lines as written, but this one holds implications for the future (if you care) and, more pressing, helps explain what went wrong over the last eight weightless episodes.
Bernard, pacing in a hotel room straight out of “Psycho,” is telling his bleeding buddy Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth) that an “apocalypse” is about to befall mankind; that the end of the world is about to happen, and there...
- 5/4/2020
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Warning: The following re-cap contains spoilers from tonight’s season 3 finale episode of HBO’s Westworld, “Crisis Theory”:
Tonight’s episode was written by Denise Thé & Jonathan Nolan; directed by Jennifer Getzinger.
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We wondered all season long if there were two Men in Blacks, one human and one robotic. It was a burning question ever since season 2’s epilogue when the Ed Harris character faced diagnostic questioning from his daughter Emily (something that hosts would go through). Last Sunday we seemed to get some clarity when we learned that William (in the real world) was an outlier along with Caleb, humans...
Tonight’s episode was written by Denise Thé & Jonathan Nolan; directed by Jennifer Getzinger.
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We wondered all season long if there were two Men in Blacks, one human and one robotic. It was a burning question ever since season 2’s epilogue when the Ed Harris character faced diagnostic questioning from his daughter Emily (something that hosts would go through). Last Sunday we seemed to get some clarity when we learned that William (in the real world) was an outlier along with Caleb, humans...
- 5/4/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
[This story contains spoilers for the season three finale of HBO's Westworld, "Crisis Theory."]
So… did these violent delights have violent ends, or what? Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy delivered their answer to that question (and more) on Sunday in the form of "Crisis Theory," the season three finale of the HBO genre-bending drama.
All season long, Westworld followed Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and various other versions of the character (most prominently played by Tessa Thompson, as her Dolores dug deeper and deeper into her life as Delos bureaucrat Charlotte Hale) warring toward a ...
So… did these violent delights have violent ends, or what? Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy delivered their answer to that question (and more) on Sunday in the form of "Crisis Theory," the season three finale of the HBO genre-bending drama.
All season long, Westworld followed Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and various other versions of the character (most prominently played by Tessa Thompson, as her Dolores dug deeper and deeper into her life as Delos bureaucrat Charlotte Hale) warring toward a ...
(We’ve got spoilers ahead for “Westworld” season 3 on HBO through the episode that aired on March 29.)
“Westworld” season 3 is, thankfully, not even remotely so much of a headache to deal with as season 2 was — I’m not sure many folks would be able to deal all that stuff during this whole pandemic situation. For the most part, this season has a more traditional “what’s gonna happen next?” sort of structure. It’s nice.
But it is still full of mysteries, of course. Like that of the five host control units that Dolores took out of Westworld last season. And that of the identity of the host — who was one of those pearls — who now inhabits the Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) body.
One of those five pearls is, obviously, Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), who is living in his own body as Season 3 begins. But Dolores took four other “pearls” as well,...
“Westworld” season 3 is, thankfully, not even remotely so much of a headache to deal with as season 2 was — I’m not sure many folks would be able to deal all that stuff during this whole pandemic situation. For the most part, this season has a more traditional “what’s gonna happen next?” sort of structure. It’s nice.
But it is still full of mysteries, of course. Like that of the five host control units that Dolores took out of Westworld last season. And that of the identity of the host — who was one of those pearls — who now inhabits the Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) body.
One of those five pearls is, obviously, Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), who is living in his own body as Season 3 begins. But Dolores took four other “pearls” as well,...
- 4/26/2020
- by Phil Owen
- The Wrap
Just under two weeks out from its third season finale, “Westworld” has been renewed for a fourth season by HBO.
Season 3 of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s sci-fi series premiered on March 15 — almost two years after its second season debuted in April 2018 — to 901,000 linear viewers on HBO and 1.7 million total viewers when counting streams on HBO Go and HBO Now. The episode, which was directed by Nolan, has now surpassed nine million viewers across all platforms.
Just two more episodes remain in the eight-episode season, with one new hour airing this Sunday and the finale set for May 3.
Also Read: HBO Reveals 'Westworld' Episode Titles, Descriptions for Back Half of Season 3
“Westworld” Season 3 stars returning cast members Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores, Thandie Newton as Maeve, Ed Harris as William/Man in Black, Jeffrey Wright as Bernard, Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale, Luke Hemsworth as Stubbs, Simon Quarterman...
Season 3 of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s sci-fi series premiered on March 15 — almost two years after its second season debuted in April 2018 — to 901,000 linear viewers on HBO and 1.7 million total viewers when counting streams on HBO Go and HBO Now. The episode, which was directed by Nolan, has now surpassed nine million viewers across all platforms.
Just two more episodes remain in the eight-episode season, with one new hour airing this Sunday and the finale set for May 3.
Also Read: HBO Reveals 'Westworld' Episode Titles, Descriptions for Back Half of Season 3
“Westworld” Season 3 stars returning cast members Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores, Thandie Newton as Maeve, Ed Harris as William/Man in Black, Jeffrey Wright as Bernard, Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale, Luke Hemsworth as Stubbs, Simon Quarterman...
- 4/22/2020
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
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