Westworld Season 1 : The upcoming HBO original television series is a science fiction thriller created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. HBO has just released a new trailer and it looks absolutely thrilling. The trailer reveals characters dealing with web of lies, indulgent sex and senseless deaths. We can’t for the series to start. Watch Westworld Season 1 trailer here:
Westworld Season 1 Release Date:
The series is scheduled to premiere October 2, 2016. It’s been based on the 1973 film of the same name which was written and directed by American novelist Michael Crichton. Described as “a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin,” the series tells the story of a futuristic theme park called Westworld. We’ve got the release date of the first three episodes:
- Westworld Season 1 Episode 1 (ws1e1): October 2, 2016
- Westworld Season 1 Episode 2: October 9, 2016
- Westworld Season 1 Episode 3: October 16, 2016
Westworld Season 1 Cast:
The cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, among others. Lili Simmons as Abigail, Lena Georgas as Lori, Currie Graham as Craig, Ptolemy Slocum as Sylvester, and Louis Herthum as Peter Abernathy. The pilot was shot in August 2014 in and around Los Angeles, California.
Westworld Season 1: Rape and Violence Against Women
Speaking on creating the series, Jonathan Nolan (who also created Person of Interest) told Vulture: “Nothing good is easy. HBO is holding themselves to a high standard. But they didn’t have to encourage us to be ambitious. We were ambitious from the beginning.” The show has already drawn criticism from some quarters for the depiction of rape. To this that it was important for them to incorporate sexual violence into the show because it has “sadly been a fact of human history since the beginning of human history.”
Spoilers: The first two episodes of Westworld Season 1 was screened and the pilot episode depicted lifelike female android (played by Evan Rachel Wood) being dragged by her hair to be raped offscreen. Last month, Producers of HBO’s highly anticipated and twice-delayed Westworld, Lisa Joy told the L.A. Times: “Westworld is an examination of human nature. The best parts of human nature — paternal love, romantic love, finding oneself — but also the basis for parts of human nature — violence and sexual violence. Violence and sexual violence have been a fact of human history since the beginning. There’s something about us — thankfully not the majority of us — but there are people who have engaged in violence and who are victims of violence.”
