These are not her clothes.
They belong to herWestworldandroid character, Dolores Abernathy.
And this is not her bed.
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Shes inside Dolores lonely ramshackle hilltop ranch house.
But where are the cameras and the crew and the rest of the cast?
Has she somehow been transported into the shows ultraviolent theme park?
I was like, It was just a TV show!
None of this is real!'
Woods brief existential crisis after months of filming season 2 ofWestworldis understandable.
Once immersed in the new season, youll start questioning what is real too.
Its so much more expansive, it makes the first season look like a genteel kitchen drama.
Critics were, at first, skeptical.HBO spent more than two years making a naughty-robot Western?
Production shut down for months?
The heroes arent even human?
And its another drama with violence against female characters?
The concerns faded afterWestworldbegan rolling out episodes in the fall of 2016.
Its fun when somebody yells out at Target, Freeze all motor functions!'
Wood says, referring to one of the shows host commands.
That has happened, and I do it.
Which brings us to the new season.
We want to feel like the show is rocketing ahead.
The first season was a journey inward; this is a journey outward.
Its a search for what else is in the park, and what else is beyond the park.
Shes playing the chess master, Wood says.
She has access to all of her memories, but now shes in control.
There are some scenes where shes three different people in the span of a minute.
But as Joy puts it, Not everybody in the revolution is on the same page.
Meaning some of the hosts have their own ideas about how to take advantage of their newfound freedom.
There are external threats as well, such as the armed soldiers sent in by Delos to restore order.
The leashes are off, Joy says.
For the cast, reading the season 2 scripts was humbling.
Anybody who thought they had guessed what would happen to their characters this year was largely proved wrong.
In fact, some assumptions that everybody has about the first season arent right either.
Its not contrived, though, its genuine to what they have mapped out.
Hopefully somebody can explain it all to me after it airs.
But its going to be tremendously watchable.
So yes, that means flashbacks.
The hosts will need to understand the parks past to battle Delos in the present.
Theres a chance we could eventually see all the parks, and venture beyond the parks as well.
Nolan reveals each season has a secret subtitle known only to producers.
The first was called The Maze.
Season 2 is called The Door.
When he says this, Joy exclaims: I cant believe he just told you that!
Still: Doors always lead somewhere, right?
And if the where of it all is surprising this season, the whens could be too.
If left to their own devices, they could live forever.
So our story has some real scope to it.
Assuming, that is, you’re able to follow everything thats going on.
Oddly enough, the actor who claims to understandWestworldthe least is the one who explains it the best.
Its part of the mystery and challenge of it.
The show is making a statement about life, memory, time, and dimensions.
Hey, are we sure Ed Harris is real?
