Westworld season 3 will be “less of a guessing game”

Production on Westworld season 3 is chugging along, and husband and wife showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy spoke to Entertainment Weekly about what fans can expect when the show returns at some point in 2020.

“We’re looking at the aftermath of the massacre in the park,” Joy said. “After all they went through to get out of the park, Dolores finally got what she wanted, so we wanted to see how she interacts with the world and what her plan is. That’s a part of the story we were excited to tell.”

Season 2 was filled with so many twists and turns viewers sometimes asked themselves whether it was worth it. “This is season is a little less of a guessing game and more of an experience with the hosts finally getting to meet their makers,” Nolan assures us. Bullet dodged.

If you watched the season 2 finale, you know that Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) escaped the park in the android body of Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson). Then, once she was in the real world, she began making bodies for all the hosts she took with her. In season 3, we’re going to see a much different story play out.

“I love shows that find a groove and hang with it for 100 episodes — that was never this show,” said Nolan. “We always wanted every season to find our characters in radically different circumstances. And with a cast this talented, watching the metamorphosis of all these characters is one of the most fun parts.”

Although Joy and Nolan are tightlipped about the details of season 3, EW was able to get some info on Aaron Paul’s role. His character’s name is Caleb, and he’s a construction worker in Los Angeles. Caleb will “have a strong impact on Dolores” who, along with other hosts, have major “culture shock” now that they’re no longer in the park.

“Aaron’s character will challenge Dolores’ notions about the nature of humanity,” Nolan said. “He’s the type of person who doesn’t get to go to Westworld.”

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Oh, and if you were wondering why the show is still called Westworld when the hosts are out in the real world, Nolan has an answer for that. “Part of the story plays out in the Western United States, and that’s a thematic through-line in the show — the American West as a setting and an ethos.”

"The idea of the West as a wild place, where just over the next hill or horizon there are no rules. On that thematic level, Dolores emerges to figure out what happened to the real West. And the answer is: We paved the thing over, and civilization eventually caught up with all those people who were running away from it."

We don’t know when exactly Westworld season 3 will debut, but Nolan and Joy — along with cast members Thandie Newton, Aaron Paul, Tessa Thompson, Evan Rachel Wood — and Jeffrey Wright will be in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con this Sunday, so maybe we’ll get a hard date then. In the meantime, enjoy the first official picture of season 3 Dolores:

We are officially done with the prairie dresses.

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