Tag: Westworld
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‘Westworld’ Review: Season 2 Is Trapped Inside Its Own Maze as It Makes Drastic Changes Too Slowly
“Westworld” Season 2 is a labyrinthian experience and, to borrow a term used by one of the characters, a baroque spectacle, much like it was before. But Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s sequel purposefully puts its characters on fresh trajectories in a world that’s vastly different than the diligently controlled theme park seen during most…
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‘Westworld’ vs. ‘Game of Thrones’ Publicity Stunts: Why the Rickroll Worked While the Ice Cube Didn’t
This Monday, “Westworld” fans and TV journalists were confronted by a daunting prospect: Executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy pledging that if they received enough upvotes on Reddit, they would release a video that would spoil every major plot twist of the upcoming Season 2.Nolan had been hinting for a while that the producers…
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Daily Podcast: A Quiet Place 2, HBO’s Pay Gap, NOS4A2, Foundation, Star Wars, Westworld, Tolkien, and More
On the April 10, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about A Quiet Place 2, HBO’s pay gap, Foundation, Star Wars, Westworld, a new J.R.R. Tolkien novel, and two upcoming movies starring Dave Bautista. You can subscribe…
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Jonah Nolan’s ‘Westworld’ Season 2 Spoiler Threat Ends In A Rick Roll
No one likes spoilers. Well, except for those people that need to know everything about a show before they watch it, or those sadistic people that love the look on their friends’ faces when they spoil something in their favorite show or movie. For those that love spoilers, the creators of “Westworld” have something for…
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‘Westworld’: That Season 2 Spoilers Plan Was All Just a Joke — Watch
Well, they sure did fool a lot of people.In a move that ensured that the TV world will definitely be talking about the show in the two weeks before its premiere, “Westworld” released its much-anticipated, every-spoiler-in-Season-2 video. The season-spanning precap that series co-creator Jonathan Nolan teased earlier today on Reddit sure started off like the…
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‘Westworld’ Creators Release Season 2 Spoiler Video As Promised, But There’s a Twist
This afternoon, Westworld creators/showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy made a daring promise: in order to avoid having Redditors guess season 2’s major plot beats before the show itself revealed them to its audience, the showrunners said they would release a detailed video online ahead of its premiere that went ahead and spoiled everything up…
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Daily Podcast: Westworld, Solo, Batgirl, The Simpsons, Game of Thrones, Terminator, Black Panther, and More
On the April 9, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about Batgirl, Black Panther, Game of Thrones, Westworld, Platinum Dunes, The Simpsons, Terminator, and I’ll Be Gone in the Dark. In our feature presentation, /Film weekend editor Bradford Oman…
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‘Westworld’ Creators Say They’re Willing to Spoil All of Season 2 to… Avoid Spoilers?
Westworld Season 1 was an unusual viewing experience. While plenty of viewers were happy to watch along and learn the series’ twists and turns as they were doled out, lots of us flocked to reddit and message boards to try and decipher the story’s mysteries with the power of the hive mind. And some folks…
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‘Westworld’ Showrunners Reveal More Info About Shogun World, Say Most of Season 2 Takes Place in Westworld
A few days ago, the website for Delos Incorporated – the fictional company that operates the title park in HBO’s hit sci-fi series Westworld – revealed some official details about Shogun World, the second theme park that we’ll be seeing when season 2 arrives later this month. Now, a new interview with showrunners Jonathan Nolan…
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2018 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Emmy Predictions
Last year Ann Dowd stunned Emmy viewers by upsetting Chrissy Metz in this category. Both will be back in the mix along with “Game of Thrones” regular Lena Headey who qualifies this time around. The field should be fierce, but will any of the presumed nominees simply not make the cut? [Posted April 6]FrontrunnersMillie Bobby…