See if anything there sets off alarm bells for you. The show itself hasn’t revealed much more than that-but some very invested fans have found curious language in the Delos Terms of Service contracts that HBO posted online back in Season 1. the one where Theresa buys it), when she calls it “our little research project.” In other words, simply providing a safe haven for the rich to fuck, shoot, and kill themselves into oblivion is not all Delos is up to. Charlotte Hale ( Tessa Thompson) doubles down on that allusion in Episode 7 (a.k.a. In a rooftop exchange in the pilot, the park’s writer, Lee Sizemore ( Simon Quarterman), and upper management Theresa Cullen ( Sidse Babett Knudsen) allude to Delos’s bigger plans. While a lot of other pressing mysteries occupied our time ( where are we? when are we?), the Westworld writers seeded in the idea that Delos Incorporated has a secret ulterior motive behind their pleasure park from the very first episode.
In this series set in a futuristic fantasy park modeled after the Wild West, a group of android hosts begin to deviate from their scripts.
This might be the most fascinating question bumping around the edges of Westworld Season 1. Start your free trial to watch Westworld and other popular TV shows and movies including new releases, classics, Hulu Originals, and more. You can subscribe to the podcast here, and listen to a preview episode including early predictions and pre-season anticipation here: In order to guide you through this brave new world, Vanity Fair is launching the second installment of its Still Watching podcast, with chief critic Richard Lawson and senior writer Joanna Robinson back behind the microphones to break down every episode of the second season.
But first, there are a few more urgent questions we need to get to. Will they make their way out into the wider world? Perhaps.
When Season 1 ended, series star Evan Rachel Wood teased that those first 10 episodes were “an amazing prequel and a good setup for the actual show.” That means what we watched was essentially prologue for a series that will, in theory, be about sentient robots gleefully slaughtering, or gently protecting, humanity in the various parks owned by Delos. HBO’s twisty sci-fi hit Westworld returns this weekend, bringing with it all the mind-bending, fan-theorizing, and deep philosophical discussions anyone could hope for.