Westworld: Season 2

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HBO | SKA | Season Premiere Date: April 22, 2018

Starring: James Marsden, Luke Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson

Summary: The second season of the sci-fi western series inspired by the 1973 Michael Crichton film of the same name introduces Delos Corporation founder James Delos (Peter Mullan).

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

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Season 2 Episodes

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S2:E10. The Passenger
Air Date: June 24, 2018
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S2:E9. Vanishing Point
Air Date: June 17, 2018
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S2:E8. Kiksuya
Air Date: June 10, 2018

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David Wiegand

Apr 17, 2018

There is plenty of action and violence in the first half of the season, but what will empower the show’s longevity is its metaphysical theme, the exploration of the meaning and definition of human existence. Read full review

Rob Lowman

Apr 19, 2018

[Westworld] impressively returns. ... The series usually hits the mark with strong storytelling that gives you a lot to ponder after the shooting is over. And the performances are outstanding. This year, the females are leading the way. Newton is a joy to watch and Wood shimmers, clearly embracing the new Delores. Read full review

Alex McLevy

Apr 17, 2018

Westworld season two goes to some unsettling and unpleasant places--it’s not always a fun watch--but as it settles into a chaotic groove, the show is becoming a thrilling mind-bender, laced with just enough intellectual resin to give all that bloodshed a savvy frisson of wit. Read full review

Matt Zoller Seitz

Apr 13, 2018

Season two doubles down on the show’s meta tendencies. The Man in Black repeatedly announces that, thanks to the revolt, the stakes of the “game” that is Westworld (and presumably also the show that is Westworld) have been raised in a way that makes the entire thing more interesting. He’s not wrong. Read full review

Verne Gay

Apr 20, 2018

Blessedly for fans who don’t want to work so hard, less so for those wonks who do, the second season is much easier. It’s still brainy while managing to push the new narrative ahead hard and fast. It also manages to splatter the brains too: Westworld is now less a searing indictment of screen violence (the first season) and more a straight-up snuff series. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Apr 19, 2018

Westworld remains a hugely ambitious series, painted on a sweeping, star-studded canvas that continues to expand in the second season. Yet the first half of that run repeats the show's more impenetrable drawbacks -- playing three-dimensional chess, while spending too much time sadistically blowing away pawns. The result is a show that's easier to admire than consistently like. Read full review

Willa Paskin

Apr 18, 2018

Maeve is fun to be around. She’s self-contained and withering and she takes us to new, admittedly very gory places. When the show is about her, it zips along, making sense. Dolores, on the other hand, speaks in vagaries and prophecies, clearly a part of the series’ Reddit-bait. ... Westworld itself is the Rickroll. However annoying and tedious certain parts of it are, it’s never gonna give them up. Read full review

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Sepehr_Ai

Apr 23, 2018

I'll give the season a 10 based on my expectation and what I got from the first episode.Basically, I think
Westworld is a major project with lots of ideas and probably with a bigger picture imagined for.So I believe we must judge based on what each season has to offer.The first season wasI'll give the season a 10 based on my expectation and what I got from the first episode.Basically, I think
Westworld is a major project with lots of ideas and probably with a bigger picture imagined for.So I believe we must judge based on what each season has to offer.The first season was an introduction to this game and season 2 seems to seek the aftermath of the events that happened in season 1 besides throwing out a new narrative.This means we're gonna have more Q&A(actually more questions than answers!)
So if we consider that we must say that it was a solid start.There is no need to be impatient with Westworld.I just wish it can get the support and wherewithals needed to be renewed for further seasons.
The only thing I don't like about the series is some of its actors, especially Lee's character.… Expand

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Husky-92

Jul 14, 2018

The ending of the first season makes you think that what happens after Ford's death will be a huge massacre with hosts against humans, full of action, suspance, thrill and revenge! It's not... season 2 starts really slow and immediately mess with the timelines, giving a new meaning to theThe ending of the first season makes you think that what happens after Ford's death will be a huge massacre with hosts against humans, full of action, suspance, thrill and revenge! It's not... season 2 starts really slow and immediately mess with the timelines, giving a new meaning to the term "foreshadowing" and showing some interesting details in flashbacks. Revenge is not as satisfying as you expect, because the guests are all unharmed and in tears all the time, and action is only in episode 3.
Then the series starts moving with episode 4, that reveals you the real purpose of the Delos project! Episode 5 gives you a huge story full of fanservice, then the series comes to the peak in the last 4 episodes! Slowing only on episode 8, the best of the series in my opinion, and giving a satisfying but unpredictable ending in episode 10! Great series!!… Expand

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lager96

Jul 27, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Westworld: Season 2 had a lot to live up to. For the most part I believe it succeeded but there were a few things that made this season lesser than. First, Anthony Hopkins was the best part about the first season and unfortunately he doesn't come back until the middle of this season. The show is still great without him as we follow a few different timelines with Bernard. The chaos that results from the ending of season one is great but Dolores seems to have been a much different character from season one which opens up many possibilities. The storytelling is still great and less confusing just for the sake of being confusing. However, there are some things near the end of the season which are never answered, and I even wonder if the writers even know these answers. Certain characters are great while others get a backseat but this season is still great and I am excited for season 3 whenever that finally airs.… Expand

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Eman0221

Jul 23, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Westworld's Season Two is the epitome of "Fridge Logic/Jellybean Moment." It starts off straightforward enough with the whole "Jurassic Park with Robots" concept, but midway through the season, it goes way off the deep end with multiple timelines, characters, and plots that wind up going nowhere as the show becomes "Jurassic Park with Robots with The Matrix/Blade Runner/Battlestar Galactica/Lost" JJ Abrams "puzzle box" crap mixed in with the worst way. There were far too many pointless gun battles all season with the incompetent Delos mercenaries who could hit nothing with their high powered Assault Rifles and could only intercept 19th-century buckshot rifle shots with their heads. One minute the forces are “wiped out” and HQ is overrun, then it’s not. This was the wash rinse repeat the entire season. There was no organized sense of time passing. Bodies were rotting away in one scene, and fresh the next. The mercenaries were overrun one second, HQ lost (to no real end either, since the payoffs were all confusingly off-site) then business as usual somewhere else. The Logan and James Delos's storyline was a convoluted expository device and a waste of their actor's talents, and let's not even go into that timeline-obliterating post-credits scene in the last episode in the season.
The only actors/actresses that deserve their Emmy nomination was Jefferey Wright and Thandie Newton (although her character went totally non-sensical midway through the season). Zahn McClarnon was snubbed for his incredible performance in that single episode that had nothing to do with the overall plot and storylines whatsoever like the Japanworld, Rajworld, and Confederados episodes. Evan Rachel Wood and Tessa Thompson overact as the scenery-chomping villains while wearing loads of plot armor and do not deserve Emmy noms. Ed Harris's William/MIB character was completely wasted, though he had the thickest plot armor of them all. Everyone else in this show was underused while Anthony Hopkins plays his usual copy and paste "wise old English man" schtick for his paycheck.

The series itself is a prime example of just how effective The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror is, since both arguably did just as well in 30 or 60 minutes, what it took WestWorld two seasons to convey. For season 3, they need to tighten up and focus on just one or two stories, rather than the 5-6 it seemed they always had going in the first 2 seasons.… Expand

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StanCliffBroad

May 2, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. OMG, what a mess. I don't care about any of the characters, about their past, nor where they are travelling to (the weapon?). Hate the Android FaceBook analogy storyline, boring. What do humans REALLY want? Laughable, just laughable.… Expand

9 of 19 users found this helpful910

eagleeyeviking

Aug 27, 2018

Convoluted, boring, and with no momentum whatsoever, "Westworld" stumbles into irrelevance in Season 2.

2 of 7 users found this helpful25

samwindsor

Jul 6, 2018

I dont know who approve the changes but the second season sucks, , not sure who is the **** that think less nudity is better ? and make no one uns=derstand what the f is going on is smart ???

1 of 9 users found this helpful18

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  Air Date: June 26, 2022
Season 3

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  Air Date: March 15, 2020
Season 3

64
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: March 15, 2020
Season 2

76
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: April 22, 2018
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  S2:E10. The Passenger
  Air Date: June 24, 2018
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  S2:E9. Vanishing Point
  Air Date: June 17, 2018
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  S2:E8. Kiksuya
  Air Date: June 10, 2018
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  S2:E7. Les Ecorches
  Air Date: June 3, 2018
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  S2:E6. 05-27-2018
  Air Date: May 27, 2018
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  S2:E5. Akane No Mai
  Air Date: May 20, 2018
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  S2:E4. The Riddle of the Sphinx
  Air Date: May 13, 2018
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  S2:E3. Virtu e Fortuna
  Air Date: May 6, 2018
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  S2:E2. Reunion
  Air Date: April 29, 2018
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  Air Date: April 22, 2018
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  Air Date: October 2, 2016