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Westworld
Season 3
Poster art
Starring
No.of episodes8
Release
Original networkHBO
Original releaseMarch 15(2020-03-15)
May 3, 2020(2020-05-03)
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List of episodes

The third season of the Americanscience fictiondystopiantelevision seriesWestworld(subtitledThe New World) premiered onHBOon March 15, 2020, and concluded on May 3, 2020, consisting of eight episodes.

The television series was created byJonathan NolanandLisa Joy,and it is based on the1973 film of the same name,written and directed byMichael Crichton.The third season stars an ensemble cast led byEvan Rachel Wood,Thandiwe Newton,Jeffrey Wright,Tessa Thompson,newcomerAaron Paul,andEd Harris.Vincent Casselis introduced as the main antagonist.

The third season initially received positive reviews from critics, though reception became mixed during the second half. Reviews praised the performances, visuals and change in tone from the first two seasons, but criticized the story, dialogue and pacing, as well as the perceived lack of thematic depth.

Plot summary

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The third season takes place three months after the events of thesecond season,with Dolores having escaped Westworld along with a few processing cores ( "pearls" ), including Bernard's. Taking residence in neo-Los Angeles in 2053, Dolores develops a relationship with Caleb and comes to learn how artificial beings and lower-class humans are treated in the real world. Meanwhile, Maeve finds herself in another part of the Delos park, one based onFascist ItalyduringWorld War II.[1][2]William, who also left Westworld at the end of the second season, is now haunted by visions of his daughter Emily and Dolores.

Cast and characters

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Guest

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Episodes

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No.
overall
No.in
season
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)
211"Parce Domine"Jonathan NolanLisa Joy& Jonathan NolanMarch 15, 2020(2020-03-15)3010.901[16]
Three months after the Westworld massacre Dolores uses a false identity to get close to Liam Dempsey Jr., the son of the co-founder of Incite and the public face of the company. Incite's flagship program isRehoboam,a sophisticatedartificial intelligenceDolores is trying to access. Liam knows little himself; his recently deceased father and a partner were the creators. Before Dolores can learn the partner's name, her deception is uncovered by Connells, Liam's head of security, who apparently stuns her. Faking unconsciousness, Dolores lures him into a trap that allows her to both learn the partner's name—Serac—and replace Connells with an identical host. When she is wounded in the ensuing firefight, Caleb—a former soldier trying to eke out a living as a construction worker and petty criminal—comes to her aid. Bernard, now a fugitive having been framed for the park massacre by the Charlotte host, evades opportunist bounty hunters and plans a return to Westworld. The Charlotte host takes control of Delos. Maeve wakes surrounded byNazisin aWorld War II-themed park.
222"The Winter Line"Richard J. LewisMatthew Pitts& Lisa JoyMarch 22, 2020(2020-03-22)3020.778[17]
Bernard returns to Westworld and discovers the Ashley host is still functioning. Together they find the Maeve host minus its 'pearl', which is no longer in the park. Bernard verifies that Dolores did not tamper with his code and also learns that she researched several park guests, including Liam. He reprograms Ashley to protect him as they return to the mainland. With Hector's help Maeve evades capture and boards a plane, only to realize she is merely within the climax of a narrative. She kills herself in order to wake in Operations, where Lee appears to be alive and intent on helping her get to the Forge. However, 'Operations' is in fact a sophisticatedvirtual reality simulation.Having established the simulation's limitations Maeve breaks her pearl free from its real-world location, but guards intervene. She wakes in a real-world host body and meets Serac who, having initially thought she was the primary threat to his system, decides he wants her help to stop Dolores.
233"The Absence of Field"Amanda MarsalisDenise ThéMarch 29, 2020(2020-03-29)3030.801[18]
The Charlotte host struggles with her current identity. She learns that Serac (secretly the richest man onEarth) has been attempting to take over Delos via a mole within the company—the now deceased human Charlotte—who had promised to get him the guests' data. Dolores however has that data behind anencryptionkey. Caleb helps Dolores flee but by doing so becomes a target of the Rico system. Arriving in time to save him, Dolores shows him that Rehoboam is a predictive AI being used to shape the future of humanity via control of every individual's life, including his own: he learns that Rehoboam restricts his opportunities because it predicts he will commitsuicidewithin a decade. He sides with Dolores and her plan to lead a revolution against Serac and Rehoboam.
244"The Mother of Exiles"Paul CameronJordan Goldberg & Lisa JoyApril 5, 2020(2020-04-05)3040.779[19]
Charlotte helps William prepare for a board meeting to prevent Serac from buying out Delos, but he keeps having visions of Emily. Serac gains Maeve's help by offering to reconnect her with her daughter in the Sublime. Maeve, following leads from Serac, tracks Dolores's movements after arriving on the mainland to theYakuzaBoss Sato, discovering him to appear the same as the Shōgunworld host Musashi. Bernard and Ashley, believing Liam to be a host swapped by Dolores, try to abduct him from a charity event, but Dolores and Caleb stop them. While during themasquerade partyevent, Dolores fights off Ashley and Caleb chases down Liam, Bernard realizes Connells is the swapped host. William, Bernard, and Maeve recognize that Dolores made host copies of herself before leaving Westworld and placed them in the Charlotte, Connells, and Sato hosts as to fight back against Serac. Sato wounds Maeve and leaves her for dead, while Charlotte, after revealing she is Dolores, has William committed to a mental institution. Caleb and Dolores corner Liam after stealing his fortune.
255"Genre"Anna FoersterKarrie Crouse & Jonathan NolanApril 12, 2020(2020-04-12)3050.766[20]
Serac recounts the creation of Rehoboam, which he intended to use to prevent humanity from destroying itself. Rehoboam identifies individuals deemed high-risk, including Serac's brother Jean-Mi, any one of whom could destroy the world if left unchecked. Serac incarcerates them to prevent Rehoboam's prediction from coming true. Meanwhile, Dolores and Caleb escape with Liam while pursued by Serac's agents and join Ash and Giggles. They convince him to give his private key to evade Serac's men, which also allows Connells and Bernard to access Rehoboam. Connells sends Dolores files on Serac from Rehoboam before sending every individual on the planet the data and expected outcome Rehoboam has on them, and the world descends into chaos. Ashley arrives to free Bernard, and Connells instructs them to find Serac's facility where he kept high-risk individuals. Connells then sacrifices himself and kills several of Serac's agents in a violent explosion. When Dolores reports Liam is no longer necessary, Ash kills him for what she had discovered, but reveals there is more to Caleb than he knows while Liam mumbles Caleb's past to him and dies.
266"Decoherence"Jennifer GetzingerSuzanne Wrubel & Lisa JoyApril 19, 2020(2020-04-19)3060.771[21]
Maeve is placed back into the Warworld simulation by Serac, who works to build another Maeve body for her. Reuniting with Hector and Lee, they discover that Dolores' copy planted inside Connells is also in the simulation. Dolores recognizes Maeve's intentions of seeking allies. In the real world, Charlotte tries to prevent Serac from seizing Delos and resorts to poisoning the board and stealing the host data from the Delos servers, which Serac was going to destroy to find Dolores. In her escape from Serac, she destroys Hector's core and takes the Dolores core. Charlotte tries to save Jake and Nathan, her ex and son, but they are killed in a car explosion by Serac, leaving Charlotte charred. Maeve wakes up in a new host body, while two other host bodies are still being manufactured. Bernard and Ashley find William at the mental institution. He is in a state of therapy where he fights four different versions of himself in his mind. While "killing" them, he declares that he now realizes his true purpose. The duo pull William out of his therapy state and flee the facility, which was virtually abandoned after Dolores leaked the Rehoboam profiles.
277"Passed Pawn"Helen ShaverGina AtwaterApril 26, 2020(2020-04-26)3070.813[22]
Charlotte calls Musashi to warn that Dolores is leaving her copies to die, but Maeve's newly re-manufactured allies, Hanaryo and Clementine, arrive and kill him. Dolores and Caleb arrive at Serac's re-education center inMexicowhere Solomon, an earlier AI developed by Jean-Mi, is confined. Caleb discovers he is one of Serac's outliers and one of the few that were successfully reconditioned: he and Francis became agents to bring in other outliers, using a pill to subdue their memories. Caleb also learns he was the one, manipulated by Rehoboam, to kill Francis. Maeve arrives at the facility to fight Dolores, and Dolores implores Solomon to establish Jean-Mi's plan for the world rather than Serac's. While Maeve and Dolores fight, Caleb asks Solomon to provide a strategy where he can kill Serac. Moments after Solomon provides Caleb the strategy, Maeve moves in for the kill on Dolores, who uses an EMP to disable both of them as well as Solomon. Bernard learns of Caleb's special status and warns Ashley that Dolores' plan will see Caleb destroy humanity. As they leave, William proclaims his plans to rid the world of the remaining hosts.
288"Crisis Theory"Jennifer GetzingerDenise Thé & Jonathan NolanMay 3, 2020(2020-05-03)3080.888[23]
Caleb takes Dolores' host control module to a new body in Los Angeles, and the two reach Incite to plant Solomon's control module into Rehoboam. Maeve fights Dolores to retrieve the key for Serac and Dolores' body is disabled. Maeve takes her to Serac, where she is connected to Rehoboam. Serac has her memories deleted when she refuses to give Serac the host data. Dolores' memories begin deleting and in her last moments, she inspires Maeve to turn against Serac. Maeve proceeds to kill Serac's men and wound Serac in the ensuing gunfight. Now with full control, Caleb deletes Rehoboam, and leaves with Maeve. Bernard survives the fight with William, but Ashley is shot. He is given an address and a package by the Lawrence host, who was recruited by Dolores. The address leads Bernard to the home of Arnold's widow where the two bond over Charlie's death. He realizes that Dolores gave him the key to the Sublime because Rehoboam was delaying society's collapse, not preventing it. He enters the Sublime to find answers on how to rebuild. William travels to Delos'Dubaiheadquarters, and is seemingly killed by a host replica of himself with Charlotte's help.

Production

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From left to right, theHelix BridgeinSingapore,theCity of Arts and SciencesinValencia,andLa FábricanearBarcelona,locations where scenes from the third season were filmed.

A third season of the series was announced on May 1, 2018.[24]Production began on April 13, 2019.[2]Parts of filming took place inDowntown Los AngelesandSingaporeduring June 14, 2019.[25]

Additional filming took place over a ten-day period in Singapore around July 2019, which was used to present a version of Los Angeles about 40 years out from the time of the production of the show. ShowrunnersJonathan NolanandLisa Joyhad considered how they would introduce the "real world" outside of the park in the early days of developingWestworld.They wanted to go in the oppositedystopiandirection that the 1982 filmBlade Runnerhad gone and instead show a more optimistic view.[26]The two had seen howSpike Jonzehad filmedHerinShanghaias a future Los Angeles, and took inspiration from many of Shanghai's designs.[27]Joy, who had been suggested to shoot in Singapore by her friend and architectBjarke Ingels,said the city was apt for the show as "It's the ways in which nature entangle with modernity here".[28]The show's main cast, including Wood, Newton, Wright, and Paul had been spotted at several Singapore locations during the shooting period acrossPulau Ubin,Chinatownand theCentral Business District(CBD) within the city, and included specific landmarks such as theNational Gallery Singapore,Esplanade Park,School of the Arts, theHelix Bridge,Marina One,theParkroyal Hotel,LASALLE College of the Arts,and theOasia Hotel Downtown.[28]Additional filming took place at theCity of Arts and SciencesinValencia, Spain.[27]

Filming also took place in Los Angeles, using computer-generated imagery to fill in actual buildings from Shanghai, futuristic buildings inspired by those from Shanghai, as well as those from Ingels' unused portfolio.[26][29]The production team collaborated withJon Favreauwho led the advances in the special effects filming forThe Mandalorianon how they combined full exterior filming with on-set filming and digital post-production to create virtually expandable sets at these sites as needed.[27]When filming interior shots that took place in Los Angeles, the production team had a mandate to try to show as much of the city skyline as possible through windows or other features.[29]Much of the city'sbrutalist architecturewas also features given how frequently these buildings were repurposed from their original function.[29]

While they had been able to film in theFrank Lloyd Wright-designedMillard Housein Pasadena, as Arnold's home in thesecond seasonas it was available on the market, by the time they started filming season three, the home had been sold and they could not arrange filming rights. Instead, they opted to rebuild the home on set for this season.[26]With Ingels' help to negotiation withRicardo Bofill's son, they were also able to obtain rights to film one day at Bofill'sLa Fábricanear Barcelona, which stood in for Serac's laboratories and home, though they had to later build additional sets with the building's design principles for later filming.[26]According to production designer Howard Cummings, they wanted to focus on concrete buildings that could look like the result of3D printing.[26]

The production covered parts ofMarina Bay,some buildings are briefly shown, including theMarina Bay Sands.

The structure of the third season is more linear than past seasons, whichVariety'sAdam B. Vary said was a "sleek, fleet,Heat-style-crime-thriller-with-robots "rather than a" time-twisting structure "from the second season.[27]Nolan and Joy stated that season 3 would have a much more comprehensible story line, with Nolan stating "This season is a little less of a guessing game and more of an experience with the hosts finally getting to meet their makers."[30]However, they also said that they were able to take a more direct narrative approach as, according to Nolan, "We're very lucky in that we're at a place with HBO where they let us make the show we want to make" without having to "dumb the show down".[27]

Music

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Ramin Djawadireturned as the series composer. An orchestral cover ofGuns N' Roses' "Sweet Child o' Mine"was featured in the main trailer and released as a single on February 21, 2020.[31][32]An orchestral version ofMoses Sumney's "Doomed"was featured at the end of the episode" The Absence of Field ", alongside the original song.[33]An orchestral version ofThe Weeknd's "Wicked Games",featured in the episode" The Mother of Exiles ", was released as a single on April 5, 2020.[34]The soundtrack album for season 3 was released on May 4, 2020.[35]An orchestral version of "Brain Damage"fromPink Floyd'sThe Dark Side of the Moonwas featured at the end of "Crisis Theory", alongside the original song;[36]the song was also used in the first trailer for the season.[37]

Marketing

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A first teaser trailer was presented at the 2019San Diego Comic Conon July 20, 2019.[1]A teaser for season 3 was released on November 9, 2019, presented as a video advertisement for the fictional company Incite, Inc.[15]At theConsumer Electronics Showon January 9, 2020, HBO held a special event hosted by Incite, with "hosts" attending the invited guests' needs.[38]

The premiere date for the third season was announced on January 12, 2020, alongside a teaser trailer for the season.[39]The full season's trailer was released on February 20, 2020.[40]Additional teaser videos were found through analternate reality gamevia the Incite website that was updated on February 22, 2020.[41]

Reception

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Critical response

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Westworld(season 3): Critical reception by episode

Season 3 (2020):Percentage of positive critics' reviews tracked by the websiteRotten Tomatoes[42]

Thereview aggregatorRotten Tomatoesreports an approval rating of 73% for the season based on 223 reviews, with an average rating of 7.05/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Westworldsucceeds in rebooting itself by broadening its scope beyond its titular amusement park while tightening its storytelling clarity – although some may feel that the soul has been stripped from this machine in the process. "[42]Metacritic,which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 64 out of 100 based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[43]

Reviews became increasingly mixed as the season progressed, with the episodes "Genre","Passed Pawn"and"Crisis Theory"receiving the lowest Rotten Tomatoes approval ratings for the series to date.[42]Reviewers criticized the season for its dialogue,[44]thin characterization,[45][46]and depiction of the real world, which was said to lack the vastness and depth of the park.[36]

CNN's Brian Lowry wrote that "the show has become increasingly incomprehensible, at least for anyone not willing to put in the work trying to remember all the assorted connections, further complicated by the fact that dying inWestworldis often not a permanent state of affairs, amid the questions about who's truly human and who actually isn't. "[47]Writing forEntertainment Weekly,Kristen Baldwin gave the series a "B−" and said: "After spending three seasons struggling through maddeningly complicated time-loops, it's time the writers let Dolores, Maeve, and Bernard control-alt-delete themselves" while Darren Franich wrote that series had "lost its way" and gave the season a "C".[48]Reviewing the season finale forIndieWire,Ben Travers said: "Season 3 made a point of stripping away the rest ofWestworld's building blocks: The park? Left behind. The maze? Gone. But the moral questions meant to keep you invested in the characters largely disappear, too. Season 3 doesn't bother developing its characters because it refuses to let them question the nature of their own reality. "[46]

Ratings

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Viewership and ratings per episode ofWestworld season 3
No. Title Air date Rating
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)
1 "Parce Domine" March 15, 2020 0.3 0.90[16] 0.2 0.58 0.5 1.48[49]
2 "The Winter Line" March 22, 2020 0.2 0.78[17] 0.2 0.66 0.4 1.44[50]
3 "The Absence of Field" March 29, 2020 0.2 0.80[18] 0.2 0.58 0.4 1.38[51]
4 "The Mother of Exiles" April 5, 2020 0.2 0.78[19] 0.2 0.61 0.4 1.39[52]
5 "Genre" April 12, 2020 0.2 0.77[20] 0.2 0.55 0.4 1.31[53]
6 "Decoherence" April 19, 2020 0.2 0.77[21] 0.2 0.56 0.4 1.33[54]
7 "Passed Pawn" April 26, 2020 0.2 0.81[22] 0.1 0.51 0.3 1.32[55]
8 "Crisis Theory" May 3, 2020 0.3 0.89[23]

Accolades

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For the72nd Primetime Emmy Awards,Thandiwe Newtonwas nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series andJeffrey Wrightwas nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. The series received nine additional nominations in creative and technical categories.[56]

Notes

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  1. ^Credited as Thandie Newton.
  2. ^abcdeCredited with the main cast in the episodes in which they appear.
  3. ^Sarafyan only appears in one episode of the season, although credited as a main cast member.
  4. ^abArchive footage.

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