Westworld

"Westworld" actor James Marsden has returned to the show's fourth season despite his character Teddy Flood having died at the end of Season 2.

He had no lines in the first episode and his dress was modern to match the setting both characters are now in. Are they going to cooperate or are they going to vie for control? I miss talking about the show together."

What could possibly go wrong? The new season also boasts a predictably star-studded cast, including Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Tessa Thompson, Jeffrey ...

That's one very late night/early morning if you're in the UK and desperate to catch it the moment the new episode drops. If you're anything like us you'll already be counting down the minutes until Westworld season 4 episode 2 arrives on HBO Max and NOW TV, so make sure you never miss an episode with our handy release schedule. Events pick up seven years after the end of season 3 and, this time around, there's a new theme park opening its doors, set in the world of '30s mobsters.

Luke Hemsworth as Ashley Stubbs · Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale · Aaron Paul as Caleb Nichols · James Marsden as Teddy Flood · Ed Harris as The Man in Black ...

Harris has starred in far too many films and TV shows to list, but his filmography includes movies like The Abyss, The Truman Show, Snowpiercer, and Mother! Since then, Wright’s become a star, with his most popular role to date being Commisioner Gordon in The Batman movies. Evan Rachel Wood’s Dolores has been on the biggest journey of all the Westworld characters. A duplicate of her body was created and used by Dolores to masquerade as Hale in the real world. The Man in Black, aka William, is a complicated character who wants to use Hosts to achieve immortality. The series stars a number of talented actors, so ahead of the fourth season premiere, we thought it would be fun to look into the Westworld cast and see what they were doing before the robotic rebellion, as well as what they’re up to after it. All good stories need a great villain, and Ed Harris makes for a great bad guy. She went on to appear in The Missing, The Wrestler, and The Conspirator. Wood also appeared in the animated movie Frozen 2, where she played Queen Iduna. Arguably, though, Wood is better known for her TV work, and she’s appeared in series like The West Wing, True Blood, as well as What We Do in the Shadows. Where is the Westworld cast now? So we’re sorry if your favourite character didn’t make the cut. She was recently nominated for the Best Actress in a Leading Role BAFTA for her work in the Netflix movie Passing, and you can see her next in the MCU movie Thor: Love and Thunder. Marsden’s career began in the early ’90s on the TV series Joe’s Life and The Nanny. He got his big break in 2000, though, when he starred in the first X-Men movie as Cyclops. Marsden went on to play the mutant throughout the original trilogy and reprised the role in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy for HBO and based on the 1973 film of the same name by Michael Crichton, the dystopian science fiction series Westworld ...

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While the Season 4 premiere, titled "The Auguries," doesn't answer all those questions, we spoke to executive producer and co-showrunner Lisa Joy to break down ...

All things that I can really relate to and I wanted to cast the sort of perfect human. "I just wanted to tell the story of a girl in the city trying to make it as a writer. The character was absent from Season 3, but Joy wouldn't divulge his complete story arc for this season. Joy confirmed that Ed Harris' iconic Man in Black character is not the same person as when we first met him. "It's just this constant source of water power, which could be used to power some pretty big data storage facilities," Joy explained. Be sure to check out our full review of the premiere right here.

HBO's sentient robot series, which has returned for a fourth season, remains confounding as ever. By Esther Zuckerman. Published on 6/27/2022 at 8:00 AM.

Sure! Okay! Meanwhile, in New York, Evan Rachel Wood is now "Christina," who seems to maybe not realize she is a robot—and who's to say she is anyway? The third and fourth storylines of this hour involve Caleb, who is now married with a kid, but afraid of being persecuted, and Maeve, who has been living off the grid until she's attacked by William's henchman. As overwhelming as the plotting is, Westworld continues to be a very stylish show, trading in its past seasons' cowboy aesthetics for stark futuristic design. This is all to say that, yes, in its fourth season, which jumps ahead eight years, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's Westworld remains confounding, but also able to be appreciated on a simple vibes level. To prepare to attend the Season 4 premiere of Westworld, hosted at Lincoln Center and featuring a man in a robot costume handing out vodka pomegranate shots in test tubes, I tried to remember what happened in the previous season's finale. It's been a long time since May 2020, and words like "Rehoboam" had been stored so deeply in my memory you would think I was a host waking up from a long slumber.

The best part of 'Westworld' Season 4 Episode 1 on HBO is Ramin Djawadi's cover of the Lana Del Rey song "Video Games."

It’s a gorgeous sequence that once again proves LDR is the queen of haunting love songs and Ramin Djawadi is the master of rearranging our most popular songs. Oh, and even though Dolores is dead, Evan Rachel Wood is back playing a new character named Christina. The most consistently cool thing about Westworld isn’t the HBO show’s plot twists, but composer Ramin Djawadi’s instrumental arrangements of classic pop and rock songs.

If there's any major takeaway from the Season 4 premiere, it's that the insects are back in a big way—a recurring motif in the series and Michael ...

(It should come as no surprise that Dominion is by far the worst film in the series.) But while insects were a bizarre inclusion for a dinosaur movie, they actually don’t feel as out of place on Westworld, especially within the broader context of Crichton’s work. After all, we’ve already seen what they did to the cartel guy, and unless Caleb also has been replaced by a host, these flies are going after humans under the command of Charlotte and host William. What did the flies have to do with it? (If there’s one thing the Westworld fandom loves, it’s speculating on every single detail of the series.) But the interest in flies soon gave way to more pressing reveals, like how Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) was secretly a host modeled after the park’s deceased cofounder, or that young William (Jimmi Simpson) would go on to become the Man in Black (Ed Harris) because Season 1 was taking place across multiple timelines. In the season’s opening sequence, we meet an unnamed cartel member who has been approached by William—or, more accurately, [deep breath] the host who replaced the real William at the end of the third season when Charlotte (Tessa Thompson), who is actually a sophisticated copy of Dolores, had the robotic doppelgänger attack him. It’s a little moment that hints at a major shift in Dolores’s programming, and by the end of the first season, many hosts turn on their human oppressors with violent ends.

Aaron Paul, Ed Harris, and showrunner Alison Schapker look ahead to the new season of Westworld ahead of the premiere later tonight.

“The show is always questioning what’s real, and what’s important, and in some ways, I think, for children to be our cornerstones is very relatable, whether it’s a human or a host,” said Schapker. “There’s something almost ineffably real about that relationship. [Caleb] being a father is a massive part of his trajectory this season and it’s what kind of gives him hope and purpose to march on.” In the third season finale, Ed Harris’ Man in Black/William was seemingly killed by his own android double. And it’s an entirely different world than the one viewers saw in 2020. He also indicated that his character, Caleb, has undergone some major life changes in the intervening years. Tonight, the two-year hiatus of Westworld will come to an end with the season 4 premiere on HBO. Appropriately enough, there will also be a built-in gap of time between seasons 3 and 4 within the show itself.

What could possibly go wrong? The new season also boasts a predictably star-studded cast, including Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Tessa Thompson, Jeffrey ...

That's one very late night/early morning if you're in the UK and desperate to catch it the moment the new episode drops. If you're anything like us you'll already be counting down the minutes until Westworld season 4 episode 2 arrives on HBO Max and NOW TV, so make sure you never miss an episode with our handy release schedule. Events pick up seven years after the end of season 3 and, this time around, there's a new theme park opening its doors, set in the world of '30s mobsters.

Evan Rachel Wood's Dolores – the killer robot with a heart of gold and a head full of violence – had split herself into multiple personalities stored in ...

And there was a lot to think about. Dolores, the self-aware host determined to save humanity from the dark side of technology, has had her memory wiped and is now unhappily employed scripting cheesy video games. The only character still living their best Westworld life was Maeve (Newton), who had retained her full combat capabilities – as confirmed when assassins tried to catch her unawares. In particular, it displays a refreshing determination to not repeat itself and it is great fun watching familiar characters adapting to changed circumstances. Two years – and several lifetimes – later Westworld is back. We also had to keep track of characters played by Thandiwe Newton, Ed Harris and Tessa Thompson. Were they all robots, too?

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Westworld's premiere feels like an entirely new show. Here's a recap of the episode, where we figure out what's going on with Christina, The Man in Black, ...

With the season premiere's great reuniting of Maeve and Caleb, we have the most comprehensible storyline of Season 4. Olympiad Entertainment can't be paying that well.) We last saw the kindhearted cowboy—and Dolores Abernathy's love interest, you know, before she tooled around with his programming—in Season 2, Episode Nine, "Vanishing Point." At the end of that episode, Teddy shoots himself, unable to deal with the changes to his code/Dolores's rise to batshit villainy/the general highs and lows of being a brobot. For now, we'll have to give Westworld the benefit of the doubt, and let the story unravel a bit to see why we needed to jump forward in time by nearly a decade. Genuinely, Christina is the most brilliant, Westworldian troll in the history of the series. Instead, Westworld fast-forwarded through it all, showing where the likes of Maeve, Caleb, and Robot Man in Black ended up after it all. So, for all of you wanting to understand what the hell is going on with Christina, or simply wish to give a big ol' "Howdy!" to welcome back Teddy, here's our recap of the Season Four premiere.

Westworld season 4 brings back James Marsden in the new season premiere. But is his character the same Teddy Flood we knew from previous seasons?

"I knew I was going to go away at the end of the second second. This has been seven years of our show and yeah, it's an amazing thing to be a part of and see where the story goes." "I knew I was gonna go away for a bit but I couldn’t tell anyone for a good couple of years," he explained.

In the Westworld Season 4 premiere, Evan Rachel Wood's Christina is saved by a familiar face. But how did he return?

Teddy’s brutality when he is protecting Christina from the conspiracy theorist suggests that he has retained the darker side of himself that Wyatt unlocked. In a heartbreaking moment, Dolores decides to alter her lover’s programming and transform him into her personal assassin. This creates a rift between him and Dolores in the second season. In Season 2, Dolores begins to embrace the darker side of her personality; she merges with the identity of the remorseless killer known as Wyatt. Dolores seizes control of Westworld and starts a reign of terror, ruthlessly destroying other factions. The final shot stinger of “The Auguries” is the reveal of Christina’s enigmatic savior; it's none other than her old friend, Teddy Flood (James Marsden). Teddy was initially shrouded in the background when he saved Dolores from her would-be killer. He is blissfully unaware that he is only a pawn in the plot by Delos, and has no memory of his past, serving his role in the park as a haplessly romantic, heroic hero of the West. However, he’s always doomed to die at the hands of the park’s most villainous guests.

Westworld co-Creator Lisa Joy and EP-writer ease Season 4's Trailers and Opening Title Sequence.

“Flies are going to figure into the season,” she explains. “I don’t think it’s a mistake that Jonah and Lisa chose the Lou Reed song ‘Perfect Day’ for the teaser and that it ends with ‘You reap what you sow,'” Schapker told THR. “In so many ways, we leave footprints, and we have consequences to our actions that we can’t foresee. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of Sunday night’s long-awaited premiere, co-creator, showrunner and EP Lisa Joy, along with writer and EP Alison Schapker teased their favorite Easter eggs hidden in this season’s promo materials and title sequence.

The cast includes Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Aaron Paul, Angela Sarafyan, Luke Hemsworth, Aurora Perrineau, Ariana DeBose ...

However, when a system upgrade of the machines goes awry, their behavior begins to suggest a new threat, as the artificial consciousness gives rise to “the evolution of sin”. Westworld is a futuristic adult theme park dedicated to the fun of the wealthy. A space that reproduces the Wild West, populated by androids – the hosts -, to believe that they are human and live in the real world.

The Man in Black is back! And Ariana DeBose joins as a glum twentysomething trawling dating apps. Has the show that once asked the biggest questions about ...

Season three was where many viewers gave up: it featured a new theme park but was mostly set in a benighted Los Angeles, with society on the brink of collapse and a wacky billionaire trying to do something funky with artificial intelligence. Recapping seasons one to three is tricky, since their intention was to have more plot nuances than there are grains of sand on a beach, but quickly: season one was set in a future theme park where humans were permitted to abuse lifelike robots who couldn’t make memories or feel pain, but then these “hosts” – particularly Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) – achieved sentience and rebelled. The season four opener is the least chaotic in the show’s history, with signs that Westworld has succumbed to the fate that befalls all but the best high-concept sci-fi stories when they are given too long a run: every massive idea and reality-switching twist has been another step into an ever-narrowing maze of the show’s own mythology.

How does the databank affect the story of Westworld Season 4? How are Dolores and Bernard involved? We break it down in our explainer for The Forge.

In the end of Season 2, many hosts chose to take their chances in the Valley Beyond, crossing the Door as a virus quickly turned the park into a bloody nightmare. Is the William in Episode 1 the real deal or merely a copy? Bernard and Dolores also had their own private plans for the Forge. Unbeknownst to Delos and even to himself, Bernard used the servers to increase Dolores' knowledge about humans. Is he the same copy we saw in the Season 3 finale? And that was not the only thing Ford knew that Delos didn’t. Behind the company’s back, the Westworld founder used the Forge’s servers to store his Valley Beyond, also known as the Sublime: a virtual kind of afterlife for hosts that wish to live free from their physical bodies in a world with no humans. Afraid of what Dolores has become, Bernard shoots her and leaves the Forge, taking Peter’s pearl with him. Their plan was to copy the consciousness of selected guests to hosts’ bodies, virtually making them immortal. However, the true purpose of the Forge was much more sinister. Season 3 of Westworld aired all the way back in 2020. Despite all of this happening in three different locations, all these stories are connected to one another through one virtual place. HBO has just released the first episode of Season 4 of Westworld. Alongside the ambitious plot, the intriguing set-up, and the always unpredictable twists the series has become known for, this new season also features many faces that fans have come to know and love (or hate) over the past few years. Frustrated that he couldn’t find the key, he erased Dolores' memories one by one, effectively killing that version of Dolores.

Westworld returns with an excellent Season 4 premiere that raises more questions about the nature of reality.

When Peter does find her, he assaults her outside her apartment telling her she needs to help him and that the story needs a new ending. All of these tidbits—Christina’s total lack of memory, Teddy’s reappearance, Peter’s strange accusations, the comment about “this place”—suggest to me that Dolores is once again in a park of some kind. As she watches in horror he hurdles to the ground below. This time around, it appears we’ll have Maeve and Caleb squaring off against William and Charlotte. Where Christina/Dolores fits into the mix remains to be seen. He holds a knife to her throat when suddenly someone drags him off of her. Maya wants Christina to find a boyfriend and sets her up on a date with an investment banker that goes spectacularly badly. Naturally, she lops the guy’s head off for a reason: He’s a robot and she needs to access his memories to find out who sent the men to kill her. But she’s not thrilled when he tells her he’s going away with Maeve to put a stop to the bad guys. Maeve has shown up just in the nick of time. She is dragged out of this voluntary retirement when a group of assassins shows up at her door. Haunted by the dangers of his past, Caleb teaches Frankie target practice with a BB gun along with other self-preservation tactics, like lighting up the perimeter so that you can see anyone approaching but they can’t see you. Robot William, aka The Man in Black (Ed Harris), shows up and takes the tour, offering to buy the entire facility from the cartel.

Westworld is back on HBO for Season 4, and the premiere left us with some big takeaways for Maeve, the Man in Black, and Evan Rachel Wood's new character.

But was he one of the people that was “ruined” by the game like Peter? While waiting, head to our 2022 TV premiere schedule to see what other new and returning shows are on the way. Nick is a Cajun Country native, and is often asked why he doesn't sound like that's the case. It’s kind of weird to watch Evan Rachel Wood as a Westworld character other than the deceased (or whatever) Dolores, even after Season 3’s body-swapping. I can fully understand why a show with plots as dense as Westworld may need to start a new season off without all of its parts and mechanisms in motion. And considering that was a badass moment, it helps to prove my point. And my money is on that character “winning” out in the end, even if there’s no true victory in Westworld. This guy, with his talk of The Tower and other non-sequiturs, doesn’t know how to rationally stand still and explain himself, however, and the confusion reached the point where Peter jumped off of a building in front of Christina, questioning whether or not her game was causing it to happen. The highly anticipated premiere, titled “The Auguries,” picked up in the story seven years after the chaotic rebellion that capped off Season 3, and almost seemed like it was part of a normal, traditional series at times, from Evan Rachel Wood’s new and seemingly human character Christina to the all-around lack of Delos and the parks (outside of flashbacks). Even though I’m not entirely convinced that’s even the case, considering it was hard to gauge anyone’s full intentions from just the few memories that Maeve viewed from her attacker. Not exactly normal shit to deal with, and the fact that Christina is seeing the Maze symbol…well it doesn’t bode normal either. To the point where someone slicing their own throat is on the list of commands.

Westworld Season 4 Episode 1 sets up a kind of mystery about just what is going on long after the events at the end of the previous season.

However, the good news is that there isn't a ton of time spent on him compared to the other stories that are quite a bit more intriguing and compelling. The show is now very far in the future and because of that, different places that might look somewhat similar to settings the audience knows, but with a very interesting new appearance. When Westworld tries to answer this particular question, that answer is usually "not really" and the biggest mysteries of the show is just how people who don't really have free will interact with those who might. Later in the episode, it's laid out very clearly that the show does indeed take place after quite the time jump, and it turns out it's been seven years since the end of Season 3. The question as to whether or not people have free will is always right at the front of everyone's mind. One of the things the show does well right off the bat is that it informs the viewers of when exactly "Auguries" takes place, though only if people are really paying attention.