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Westworld is over

2022-11-04T16:53:32-04:00

Westworld has been canceled. The Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan show about robots and apocalypses captivated and then confused audiences and finally seemed to have forgotten what it was about entirely by the time its fourth and final season aired earlier this year. So while it's a bummer the show is gone, it's also not much of a surprise.

HBO emailed a statement on the cancellation, saying:

Over the past four seasons, Lisa and Jonah 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 Fi …

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Westworld’s season four teaser trailer reveals a release date: June 26th

2022-05-10T15:16:37-04:00

HBO's puzzle-filled robot show that always packed extra sides of hedonism and murder is close to making its return, as fans apparently dug up a teaser trailer for season four of Westworld before its scheduled debut.

HBO media relations director Chris Godefroy confirmed it was an Easter Egg set up for dedicated fans, and as we've seen ahead of previous seasons, there will be more to come. You can watch it right here on HBO's YouTube channel (via Reddit), to see that many of our android friends, foes, and friends who didn't know they were androids will continue to have roles to play. This link showed up on Thrillist's Instagram story over a p …

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Westworld gets renewed for a fourth season on HBO

2020-04-22T14:01:36-04:00

Westworld has been renewed for a fourth season, HBO announced today, meaning that the sometimes infuriatingly complicated science-fiction / Western series will continue to enthrall viewers with its violent delights for another season, via Variety.

The third season of the series was a reinvention of sorts, moving the action outside of the titular Westworld theme park and out into the "real" world, where the rebellious robots (namely, Evan Rachel Wood's Delores) are working to ensure their ascension by eliminating mankind. Despite the new spin on the show, ratings for the series have plummeted compared to the previous two seasons, with viewer …

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There is hope for Westworld, but you’re going to have to stick it out

2020-03-16T15:05:07-04:00

Westworld built a reputation on being mysterious. This made the first season irresistible, the second incomprehensible, and the forthcoming third season… well, you might have some questions - including "Is it still confusing?" "Who is a robot again?" and "Wait, is that Marshawn Lynch?" These are excellent questions. Some of the answers are good; some of them less so.

In its third season premiere, the show does very little to catch new viewers up to speed, so here are the broad strokes: Westworld, the show's eponymous park, is one of several theme parks where astonishingly lifelike robots populate re-creations of various historical periods. …

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Westworld returns for a third season on March 15th

2020-01-12T22:30:45-05:00

HBO's Westworld will return for a puzzle-filled third season on March 15, the network announced tonight.

The network announced the release date with a new teaser trailer that includes a series of ominous moments in the near future that spell apocalyptic disaster. It starts with the impeachment of the 45th president, a second civil war breaking out in Russia, ecological disasters around the world, and a few more events that eventually collapse into one mega issue. Show co-creator Jonathan Nolan said at last year's San Diego Comic-Con that the new season was partially inspired by Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, and will focus on a dystopian futu …

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Watch the first Westworld 3 trailer

2019-05-19T22:42:24-04:00

The buildup to the hotly anticipated Game of Thrones finale featured a suitably high-profile trailer from HBO: the debut of a Westworld III video teaser. Set to air in 2020, the third season of Westworld looks like a real departure from the original two, leaving the confines of the robot-populated fantasy playground for a more conventional futuristic setting. Which is, of course, still richly populated with robots.

Featuring Pink Floyd's "Brain Damage" as a soundtrack and a distressed Aaron Paul searching for authenticity in a synthetic world, this trailer is full of foreboding and unease, but it wouldn't be Westworld without those things.

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This cool video reimagines Game of Thrones’ title sequence in the style of Westworld

2019-04-28T17:24:11-04:00

HBO's final season of Game of Thrones is in the midst of its run, and a Belgian designer took the opportunity to reimagine the show's title sequence in the style of another of the network's big shows, Westworld

"Westerosworld" does two cool things: it takes the look and stylings of Westworld's opening credits - minimalist white designs and figures being constructed with advanced 3D printers - and changes that over to things like dragons, the house flags, the Night King, and the Iron Throne, with a hint of color accenting them. The video also takes Game of Thrones' iconic theme song, and reimagines it in the same style, thanks to composer B …

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HBO is teaching respect by putting Muppets on Game of Thrones and Westworld

2019-04-18T13:43:57-04:00

As the latest season of Game of Thrones has shown, Westeros is at war. The divide between factions has stretched the Seven Kingdoms to the breaking point, and it seems that there's only one hope for peace. Not Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons, or Jon Snow and his overdeveloped sense of righteousness. No, as HBO's latest promotion shows, only Elmo, from House Sesame Street, can save the realm now.

"Elmo thinks that you two need to respect each other," says Elmo, bursting into a tense negotiation between Tyrion and Cersei Lannister. "When Elmo has a problem with his friends like Abby or Cookie Monster, Elmo doesn't get upset. Elmo listens a …

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Westworld won’t return until 2020, HBO chiefs confirm

2019-04-15T17:43:22-04:00

The final season of Game of Thrones is wrapping up over the next few weeks, but fans of Westworld (HBO's other star-studded, high-profile genre show) are still in for a bit of a wait, with WarnerMedia Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt and HBO president of programming Casey Bloys confirming to Deadline that the series won't return until 2020.

There's been speculation for a while that Westworld wouldn't be back in 2019, but now it's official. The news also raises a question - with Game of Thrones ending and Westworld not on the schedule for a year or more, what will HBO's new marquee show be?

What will HBO's new marquee show be?

Bloys do …

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Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have signed on with Amazon Studios

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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