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Two of HBO’s sci-fi western Westworld is over and so
fans are wondering when they will see season three. There was a gap of eighteen
months between season one and season two. The gap should be just as long
according to co-showrunner Jonathan Nolan in an interview with EW: “It’s an
ongoing conversation with our friends at HBO, and for us, with a show of this
scope and scale, we’re not interested in doing the compromised version. We want
the show to get bigger and bigger and more ambitious and this takes time. We
want to take all the time we need to get it right.” He isn’t sure how long the
show could last but there is a definitive end in mind and each season is
designed in a way to be partly self-contained: “When we wrote the pilot we
thought we’d get a bit further into the story during season 1 than we did. The
shape of the season emerges as you get down to writing. We want to feel like the
show is rocketing ahead, and want to be fearless. We have an idea about how this
breaks down but it’s not so much the number of seasons but the ambition of the
story we’re telling. To that end, we don’t like to endlessly build mystery. We
like to settle our debts by the end of the season. We view each season as a
self-contained chapter and the questions [raised at the start of each season]
are largely answered by the end of each season. We want each season to feel
satisfying the way a film franchise feels satisfying with each film. We want you
excited to come back after 18 months but that you haven’t been left hanging on
the edge of a cliffhanger – that doesn’t really feel fair to the audience.”
Co-creator Lisa Joy did clear up one of the mysteries around the series by
saying that the hosts use the bathroom like their human models. |
