A high-profile HBO series, Westworld is based on the 1973 feature film of the same name. The movie has been considered a classic for many years. Will the TV show acheive the same status? Will it be renewed for a second season or, will it be cancelled instead? Stay tuned.
Westworld is set in a futuristic theme park where visitors pay a lot of money to act out their Wild West fantasies while interacting with lifelike robot “hosts”. As the story begins, top programmer Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright) alerts park founder Doctor Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) about incidents of aberrant behavior cropping up in some recently re-coded hosts. The rest of the large cast includes Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Tessa Thompson, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Jimmi Simpson, Rodrigo Santoro, Shannon Woodward, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Ben Barnes, Simon Quarterman, Angela Sarafyan, Luke Hemsworth and Clifton Collins, Jr.
11/14 update: HBO has renewed Westworld for a second season. Details here.
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What do you think? Do you like the Westworld TV series on HBO? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
Love the show and the biggest benefit is it gives us something good while we wait on Game of Thrones
When will people realise that not one intelligent show is full of action and fast developing? Go watch GoT, where all the people do is kill each other and resurrect dead people and f*** and leave this show to a 20% of people who can actually understand it.
20% of how many? The ratings are worse than I thought, but the show has already been renewed for season 2.
It has double of the GoT season 1 ratings. What are you talking about?
No it did not. GOT averaged 2.51M per episode. Westworld just around 1.7M
Here, take a look. And every next episode was just better, episode 3 had the highest ratings.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonkatz/2016/10/03/westworld-debuts-bigger-than-game-of-thrones/#1e70f2af5cd9
I would love to see season 2, Westworld is the best.
I would really like to see season 2. Although it is not even close to Game of thrones… at least one TV show I like to have second season!!! They make season 1 of everything I like and then cancell the show!!! I am really sick of it…
Of course it’s not close when it’s like million intellectual levels above GoT.
Can’t wait for a season 2: it’s an intelligent, most poetic TV show, and comes anlong in a line with Game of Thrones. I hope there are enough people to realize the potential of this one. If there’s some justice at all, there’ll be a least a season 2.
I don’t understand why people complain about this show being slow and then say thank god for Game of Thrones? Did you watch the beginning of that show?? It was incredibley slow to start, and I find that at the beginning of each of its seasons. The only reason it’s more tense is that we’ve had 6 seasons of character development and some **** still hasn’t happened since it was talked about in the first season. Why would we watch any show if main characters’ stories were resolved after 6 episodes? HBO is one of the best networks at slow… Read more »
Best series on television, by far. It makes you think, unlike, The Walking Dead, which is just plain stupid.
Have to be honest. Not loving the show. I need to watch last nights episode 6 but when it comes on vs The Walking Dead there is no comparison as far as what show I go to first and as far as watching from DVR, if there is something better on I may not see an episode for almost 1 week. Great cast, scenery but the show is boring to me. I know there are deeply rooted story lines in there that need time to develop but most shows have a couple of wow moments that keep you wanting to… Read more »
someone spent a lot of money to bore us to death. too many unresolved storylines that go on and on. thank god the scenery is so good and the effects are wonderful. it is just too slow to keep me watching and nothing draws me in to care about the characters like the newsroom or GOT does. i’m afraid they are losing me as a viewer… i can always find out later what happened….
The premise is just boring. Robots in a Western? SMDH. I gave it 3 episodes and it’s just plain bad. I just can’t get into it and the characters are forgettable. What the hell happened to HBO? They just keep striking out. Thank God for Game if Thrones. I’ll be cancelling HBO tomorrow.
This show is epic. Including the opening theme music. I don’t think that it’s slow but more methodical as to the journey each host is taking towards self awareness. While Delores is leaning towards humanity, you have Maeve maybe turning dark as she gets closer to the truth as to what she really is. Teddy not having a porpoise except being a murder magnet but wanting just to have a life beyond that. Not to mention the Man in Black with his obsession with the ground zero plot of the whole place. You also have your typical employees moaning about… Read more »
Wish I enjoyed this as much as you folks. I thought that the first three episodes (at least) were ponderous and lacking in any real creativity. The real star of this show is the occasional scenery shot of Moab, Utah, and even that does not do the place justice.
Holy crap! I’m loving this show so far, last time HBO put something this good was TD S01… it has great acting (Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores is fantastic), beautiful cinematography and an awesome score. Can’t wait for the next episodes.
Why aren’t people flocking to this show? One of the best productions with top notch writing and acting. Just look at the talented producers and directors. I’m pretty confused as to why this hasn’t received huge ratings.
People are idiots, plain and simple. Nobody wants smart television except the smart people. If we were all smart, the country wouldn’t like it does today.
So go start the Smart Peoples Television Network. Who determines what is Smart Television? You?
I am rather blown away by this show so far. Seems to be a new twist on the A.I. theme. Hope the dtoryline remains as intriguing as it is now. The intro theme graphics are so smart…..and creepy.
Westworld is terrible. I wish they would cancel it. Every episode makes me like is less.
Then stop watching it and let the rest of us enjoy it.
It was already renewed for season 2.