Big Changes Ahead for Westworld’s Third Season

Showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan have been at the helm of HBO’s Westworld since the very beginning, and with the show now in its third season, they’re excited as ever for what’s to come. The dramatic sci-fi thriller, based loosely on Michael Crichton’s 1973 movie, follows a race of artificially intelligent robots in the not-too-distant future who violently rise up against the humans who’ve used and abused them for sport. For the first two seasons, audiences were immersed in Westworld’s 19th-century Western America theme park, but with a handful of robot “hosts” escaping into the real world, all that’s about to change.

“When Lisa and I were talking about the pilot, one of the things that was most exciting to us was, you learn the rules of these creatures and their world, and then you spring them out of there,” Nolan said in a recent interview with Variety. “And you’ve withheld from the audience, for the most part to that point, what the outside world looks like.”

It’s not just the setting that’ll be different this season. “It’s a lot more linear this season,” says Evan Rachel Wood, who plays Dolores, the host leading the AI rebellion against humanity. “It feels like we’re introducing a new show to the world again, starting over and building it from the ground up with these characters that we know and love, and with the elements that are still very much ‘Westworld.’”

We can’t wait to see what the third season has to offer as it unfolds!

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The Best HBO Shows Of All Time

Although picking “the best” of anything is a subjective practice, that didn’t stop the people at Vulture from putting together their comprehensive ranked list of every single HBO show released. It was an impressive effort, to say the least, but since you may not care much for the shows that round out the bottom of the list, we thought we’d recap the very top for you.

#3 - The Wire. Described as “an American urban tragedy of unparalleled scope” The Wire takes a deep dive into the failures of a system told through the accounts of the city of Baltimore and the ongoing war between law enforcement and the city’s drug dealers. Some of the move compelling drama ever created, without a doubt.

#2 - Deadwood. Deadwood’s success was surprising, to say the least, as it was a common belief that the time of the Western had long since come and gone. But thanks to a fantastic cast that included the likes of Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Timothy Olyphant, John Hawkes, and Robin Weigert, and thanks in part to some creative script writing and colorful dialogue, it defied the odds, and made it to #2 on Vulture’s list.

#1 - The Sopranos. It comes as little surprise to find The Sopranos at the very top of this list, as it already tops many others. And for good reason. The Sopranos was nothing short of groundbreaking, reclaiming a spot for the anti-hero and making HBO truly relevant.

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