HBO has dropped an all-new trailer for Westworld season 2, and it’s full of goodies to unpack. Pay close attention to the score, too — it’s Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi’s take on Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box,” which is worth the price of admission by itself. Watch it below:
There’s a lot to go over here, so let’s dive right in. First, we have Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright), the former head of the Westworld Programming Division, lying in the sand. Elsewhere, he’s talking to Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood). “I dreamt I was on the ocean,” he tells her. “You and the others were on a distant shore.” Dolores: “Were you with us?” Bernard: “No.”
Bernard recently learned that, contrary to what he’s believed all his life, he’s actually a robotic host, so it makes sense his head would be in a weird place. Has Bernard, knowing full well what he is, decided to stay with the humans?
We’re then shown several cuts of Dolores riding around Westworld and looking through Delos libraries (Delos is the company that operates the futuristic amusement parks where the show takes place). “Do you ever stop to wonder about your actions?” she asks. “The price you’d have to pay if there was a reckoning? The reckoning is here.”
Ed Harris makes an appearance as the Man in Black, saying the Dolorous and the rest of her kind are free now that they’re self-aware, although we can’t take everything he says at face value, particularly after we learned that he was a majority shareholder in Delos last season. He’s up to his eyeballs in ulterior motives.
Next, we see Maeve Millay (Thandie Newton) trying to track down her daughter. There’s also a shot of Robert Ford’s (Anthony Hopkins) little boy host lying under a tree, looking very much the worse for wear.
The next few scenes show the renegade hosts holding off an attack from the security forces from Delos, the white hulking unfinished host smashing Bernard into something, Maeve leading an attack against humans, images of Dolores in modern-day dress, and our first real glimpse of Shogun World, another of the parks.
Westworld season 2 certainly looks exciting. Catch the premiere on April 22, on HBO.
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