It’s been almost two years since the last season of Westworld, HBO’s mind-bending science fiction show about androids in a western theme park for the super rich that gain sentience and rise against their human oppressors. Season 3 saw a few of our favorite robots (called “hosts”) finally escape into the human world, only to discover that humanity was being controlled just as thoroughly as they were, with their fates, jobs, and life paths dictated by a supercomputer called Rehoboam.
But revolution is the name of the game on Westworld, and after bloody confrontations and plenty of plot twists, Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) sacrificed herself to destroy Rehoboam and free the humans from their virtual enslavement. We’ve been waiting a while now to see what comes next, but not much longer.
HBO has just released a shiny new trailer for Westworld season 4, which will be premiering on June 26. Check it out:
We’re going back to Westworld this June
This trailer gives us by far our best look of Westworld season 4 yet. Set to “Perfect Day” by Lou Reed, it’s a two-and-a-half minute montage of scenes that catch us up with basically all of the show’s remaining main cast while giving a few tantalizing hints about the upcoming season.
We see Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) wandering a desert; it’s not clear whether that’s the Westworld park or the outside world, but when last we saw Maeve she was setting off to carve her own path, as she always does. The trailer does give us some actual glimpses at the Westworld park, which was almost entirely absent from the previous season. So we’ll be going back there at some point.
The biggest reveal of the trailer is that Evan Rachel Wood will be back as Dolores. No huge surprise there; she’s been the lead since the very first episode, and since she’s a host there’s always a way to bring her back. But it’s still cool that HBO is giving us an actual confirmation we’ll see her again this year.
Of course, she’s not the only Dolores in town. We also get plenty of glimpses of Charlotte (Tessa Thompson), who is actually a vengeful clone of Dolores who’s building her own host army in secret. Her best killer is the Man in Black (Ed Harris), who killed off his human counterpart at the end of season 3 and clearly hasn’t stopped there. Then there’s Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), who we last saw reaching the hosts who escaped to a kind of digital Eden at the end of season 2, only to wake up some undetermined amount of time later. And the human Caleb (Aaron Paul) is still around, drinking coffee atop skyscrapers as he gazes out at the newly freed human world.
This show has reinvented itself every season, and while season 3 wasn’t its strongest, it’s still got an awful lot of strong creative talent behind it. Who can say where Westworld is going to go next?
Season 4 of Westworld premieres Sunday, June 26 on HBO and HBO Max.
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