From the very word go, Nolan and Joy are threading the first of many mysteries in season 2.
And while it most definitely would fall into the second act of the Jurassic Park metaphor-wherein the first season is about coming to a theme park of wonders, and season 2 is where the exhibits start eating the tourists-it is nevertheless surprising how opaque and esoteric its violent delights can be. As such, it would be a different beast from what came before.
Indeed, I did predict when season 1 ended that this year would be about more than a robot revolution it is about the transcendence of a new species. Which by design is not quite like what anyone of us expected. Again, Westworld Season 2 is here, hence why we need to savor these early steps into Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s latest labyrinth. It is rare in the modern age for a series to still crack the zeitgeist threshold and feel like an event that everyone must experience live, yet here we are, hanging on every syllable uttered by Bernard, figuring out whether he is friend or foe to his human compatriots, and wondering just exactly how Dolores’ bloody revenge will escape the park.īut let’s not get ahead of ourselves with speculation just yet. But more pleasing still is the return of true appointment television.
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There are of course the violent delights and violent ends that we must expect from visiting Robert Ford’s dreams within dreams, plus all the mazes that accompany therein. Westworld Season 2 Episode 1įreeze all motor functions and begin running diagnostics, because Westworld has finally galloped back into the HBO corral-and with it comes many gifts.