What’s next for Westworld? Season three set to be even more confusing – not that fans will care
- HBO’s award-winning sci-fi drama returns on Monday with more murderous robot fun, but get ready for further complex plots amid the mayhem
- Aaron Paul of Breaking Bad fame makes his debut, while Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton and Ed Harris reprise their roles
Let’s get real. No one is undecided in 2020.
Passions were stoked, hearts were hardened and hard lines were drawn four years ago. Tribalism prevailed, and opposing sides have been arguing their entrenched positions ever since.
We’re talking about the debate around HBO’s sci-fi drama Westworld, of course, the award-winning series that debuted in 2016 and returns to the fold starting on Monday with a third season of murderous robot fun.
The dystopian mind-bender of a series has inspired little to no grey area between its fans and critics. One side sees the show as a multifaceted maze of reality-meets-fantasy genius. The other complains it’s a confusing tangle of future-shock nonsense.
The common ground here: we all love the fact that there’s nothing easy about Westworld, and apparently so does the Television Academy. The drama has garnered 43 nominations and nine wins despite its labyrinth of untraceable timelines, layers of cyber-subterfuge and answerless questions about metaphysical quandaries and human existence.