Westworld season 3 trailer makes you want to watch Westworld season 3
By Dan Selcke
I’ve had a tricky relationship with Westworld, HBO’s show about killer robots grappling with their own existence. It’s lavishly produced, and showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy clearly have some big ideas about human nature they want to share with us. I admire its ambition, but too often during the second season it seemed to be going around in circles, with self-important dialogue and dime-store philosophy taking the place of a driving narrative. I knew it was coming back for season 3, but I was finding it hard to get too excited.
But damn it if the trailer for the third season, which dropped ahead of the Game of Thrones series finale, didn’t intrigue me. Sure, it has self-consciously edgy dialogue about the world “rotting to pieces” and a Pink Floyd song on the soundtrack to remind that this story is trippy and deep, but I appreciated that I didn’t even know this was a trailer for Westworld until the very end. Watch below!
The second season of Westworld ended with several of the robotic “hosts” escaping the confines of their theme park existence and breaking into the “real world,” the world where Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul wonders about the point of life in a highly technologized society while eating his lunch next a construction robot high on some scaffolding. That’s a world I could be interested in.
We’ve known for a while that Paul would feature in the third season but it looks like he could be the new main character. Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood), the most fierce of the hosts who achieved sentience in the first couple seasons of the show, turns up at the very end, looking out of sorts. Has adjusting to life outside Westworld proved more difficult than she imagined? I’m all for some repiloting!
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Westworld season 3 will debut sometime in 2020. You have my attention, HBO. Now keep it.
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