These violent delights: all the trailers, reviews, and updates for HBO’s Westworld – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2019-04-05T21:01:34+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/16984339 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Andrew Liptak <![CDATA[Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have signed on with Amazon Studios]]> https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18297372/westworld-creators-jonathan-nolan-lisa-joy-person-of-interest-peripheral-amazon-studios-deal 2019-04-05T17:01:34-04:00 2019-04-05T17:01:34-04:00

Amazon Studios has announced that it has signed on Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy and their company Kilter Films for an overall deal to create original series for Amazon Prime Video. The deal builds on an existing project the pair is developing for the studio called The Peripheral.

That project is based on William Gibson's novel by the same name, which is set between near-future rural America and a distant future in London after an apocalypse. Amazon began developing the project last year, with an eye toward picking it up with a straight-to-series order.

Nolan and Joy said in a statement that they "can't wait to dive in to …

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]]> Tasha Robinson Bryan Bishop <![CDATA[Question Club: What do we want from Westworld season 3?]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/2/17527504/question-club-westworld-season-3-what-to-expect 2018-07-02T15:19:59-04:00 2018-07-02T15:19:59-04:00

Spoiler warning: this piece discusses the biggest reveals from the Westworld season 2 finale. Proceed at your own risk.

Westworld's second season concluded with some major reveals, some high-profile deaths, and a list of unanswered questions. For a show that's constructed around the ideas of perception and mystery, that's to be expected. More so than any other show on television right now, Westworld uses narrative tricks and fragmented storytelling to keep as many plates spinning in the air as possible, letting the audience's curiosity about something like "The Door" create an added layer of drama and anticipation that isn't there if the na …

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]]> Bryan Bishop <![CDATA[Westworld Spoilers Club season 2, episode 10: The Passenger]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/25/17500188/westworld-season-2-episode-10-recap-the-passenger-finale 2018-06-25T03:50:23-04:00 2018-06-25T03:50:23-04:00

HBO's science fiction drama Westworld isn't just known for its talented cast and its philosophical musings about the nature of reality. It's also become famous for its reveals, from mind-bending bombshells that link two characters to simple pieces of backstory that bring new insight to a storyline. Watching Westworld is like peeling an onion, one layer at a time.

That's why for the show's second season, I'll be diving into one particular spoilery revelation from each episode, to figure out what it means, how we got here, and where things might go in the episodes to come. Some weeks, it might be a huge plot twist. In other weeks, it mig …

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]]> Tasha Robinson <![CDATA[The biggest questions left behind after the season 2 Westworld finale]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/25/17500248/westworld-season-2-finale-unanswered-questions-passenger-bernard-maeve-dolores 2018-06-25T03:23:24-04:00 2018-06-25T03:23:24-04:00

Spoiler warning: this piece discusses the biggest reveals from the Westworld season 2 finale. Proceed at your own risk.

The finale of season 2 of HBO's science fiction series Westworld debuted on Sunday, June 24th, and it answered some of the questions it's been prodding viewers to ask throughout this season. We now know what The Door is, and whether there's a host version of the Man in Black wandering around, and how all those dead hosts ended up floating in the water in the season pilot. But the finale raised a lot more questions in the process of answering these few. Some of those questions are obvious, deliberate teases for the as-yet-u …

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]]> Adi Robertson <![CDATA[Westworld’s free Alexa game is like a radio drama crossed with a quiz show]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17485490/westworld-the-maze-amazon-alexa-choose-your-own-adventure-game-release 2018-06-20T19:18:30-04:00 2018-06-20T19:18:30-04:00

Westworld is known for slipping elaborate story hints into its viral marketing material, giving fans an early look at upcoming plot developments. Westworld: The Maze, a short game released today for Amazon Alexa devices, does the opposite. It's a clever tie-in narrative that draws on players' existing knowledge of Westworld lore - or at least their skill at navigating the Westworld wiki.

The Maze follows a voice-controlled "choose your own adventure" format that other Alexa games have used. You play a host who's just beginning to wake up to the nature of Westworld's true reality, thanks to some cryptic advice from a mysterious character in …

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]]> Bryan Bishop <![CDATA[Westworld Spoilers Club season 2, episode 9: Vanishing Point]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/17/17468578/westworld-season-2-episode-9-recap-vanishing-point 2018-06-17T22:00:02-04:00 2018-06-17T22:00:02-04:00

HBO's science fiction drama Westworld isn't just known for its talented cast and its philosophical musings about the nature of reality. It's also become famous for its reveals, from mind-bending bombshells that link two characters to simple pieces of backstory that bring new insight to a storyline. Watching Westworld is like peeling an onion, one layer at a time.

That's why for the show's second season, I'll be diving into one particular spoilery revelation from each episode, to figure out what it means, how we got here, and where things might go in the episodes to come. Some weeks, it might be a huge plot twist. In other weeks, it mig …

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]]> Bryan Bishop <![CDATA[Westworld Spoilers Club season 2, episode 8: Kiksuya]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/11/17448498/westworld-season-2-episode-8-recap-kiksuya 2018-06-11T13:03:48-04:00 2018-06-11T13:03:48-04:00

HBO's science fiction drama Westworld isn't just known for its talented cast and its philosophical musings about the nature of reality. It's also become famous for its reveals, from mind-bending bombshells that link two characters to simple pieces of backstory that bring new insight to a storyline. Watching Westworld is like peeling an onion, one layer at a time.

That's why for the show's second season, I'll be diving into one particular spoilery revelation from each episode, to figure out what it means, how we got here, and where things might go in the episodes to come. Some weeks, it might be a huge plot twist. In other weeks, it mig …

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]]> Shannon Liao <![CDATA[Jeffrey Wright says his Westworld character is ‘based on a Reddit user’]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/8/17424742/westworld-jeffrey-wright-interview-bernard-host-performance-split-screens 2018-06-08T15:36:51-04:00 2018-06-08T15:36:51-04:00

Spoilers ahead for Westworld season 1.

HBO's Westworld is about robots, power, and the nature of humanity, among other things. In season 2 of the show, Westworld park programming head Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright) is a cornerstone character, the audience's window into understanding what's going on in a number of plots. As he pieces together his faulty memories, the viewers are putting together clues to understand the larger story. But as season 1 revealed, Bernard is a host - a fully humanoid robot - which complicates both his memory issues and his identity issues. Created as an artificial replica of Westworld co-creator Arnold Weber, Berna …

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]]> Bryan Bishop <![CDATA[Westworld Spoilers Club season 2, episode 7: Les Écorchés]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17423024/westworld-season-2-episode-7-recap-les-ecorches 2018-06-04T13:05:21-04:00 2018-06-04T13:05:21-04:00

HBO's science fiction drama Westworld isn't just known for its talented cast and its philosophical musings about the nature of reality. It's also become famous for its reveals, from mind-bending bombshells that link two characters to simple pieces of backstory that bring new insight to a storyline. Watching Westworld is like peeling an onion, one layer at a time.

That's why for the show's second season, I'll be diving into one particular spoilery revelation from each episode, to figure out what it means, how we got here, and where things might go in the episodes to come. Some weeks, it might be a huge plot twist. In other weeks, it mig …

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]]> Bryan Bishop <![CDATA[Westworld Spoilers Club season 2, episode 6: Phase Space]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/28/17401860/westworld-season-2-episode-6-recap-phase-space 2018-05-28T10:13:30-04:00 2018-05-28T10:13:30-04:00

HBO's science fiction drama Westworld isn't just known for its talented cast and its philosophical musings about the nature of reality. It's also become famous for its reveals, from mind-bending bombshells that link two characters to simple pieces of backstory that bring new insight to a storyline. Watching Westworld is like peeling an onion, one layer at a time.

That's why for the show's second season, I'll be diving into one particular spoilery revelation from each episode, to figure out what it means, how we got here, and where things might go in the episodes to come. Some weeks, it might be a huge plot twist. In other weeks, it mig …

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