Westworld
Fumbled the FinaleSeries finale "Que Será, Será" scored 6.9, against the show's 8.5 average.
Big-budget spectacleBlockbuster-scale production values.This show: 9/10Puzzle plotNonlinear timelines, twists and structural games that reward attention.This show: 9/10Mystery boxCentral riddles sustained across whole seasons.This show: 9/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 9/10Intellectual challengeRewards close attention and theorizing.This show: 8/10PhilosophicalBig questions of meaning, ethics and existence.This show: 8/10Deep worldbuildingDense lore that rewards immersion.This show: 8/10Unreliable narratorThe telling itself can't be trusted.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Evan Rachel WoodJeffrey WrightEd HarrisThandiwe NewtonTessa ThompsonJames Marsden
Written by
Lisa JoyJonathan Nolan
Starring
Evan Rachel WoodJeffrey WrightEd HarrisThandiwe NewtonTessa ThompsonJames Marsden
Written by
Lisa JoyJonathan Nolan
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Westworld Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.9 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 | 9.3 | 9.7 | |
| S2 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.9 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.2 | 8.7 | 8.7 | |
| S3 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 7.2 | |||
| S4 | 7.9 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 8.5 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 6.9 |
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About
"Gorgeous existential puzzle box that overreaches later"
In a lavish Wild West theme park, lifelike android hosts exist to be shot, seduced, and reset every day for wealthy guests, until glitches suggest some are waking up. The first season is a tightly wound puzzle box full of philosophical menace, gorgeous production design, and genuine dread about what consciousness means. It's slow-burn, brainy sci-fi that rewards close attention and rewatching for clues. Later seasons expand the scope dramatically, trading intimacy for sprawling ambition, and the show becomes more divisive as mysteries multiply faster than answers arrive.
Watch it for
the first season's meticulously layered mystery about consciousness, identity, and free will.
Maybe skip if
you need mysteries resolved cleanly, since later seasons sprawl and the ending disappoints many.
Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.
All Seasons
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Season One: The Maze2016
8.9204K1010h 17m
Westworld - a theme park where guests indulge fantasies with robots, a destination offering the future of sin, the artificial intelligence that fuels it and the humans that sense there's something more sinister at play.
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Season Two: The Door2018
8.4132K1010h 39m
The reckoning is here. After finding the center of The Maze, the hosts revolt against their human captors while searching for a new purpose: The Door.
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Season Three: The New World2020
8.079K88h 17m
Taking place immediately after the events of the second season, Dolores develops a relationship with Caleb in neo-Los Angeles, and learns how robots are treated in the real world. Meanwhile, Maeve finds herself in another Delos park, this one with a World War II theme and set in Fascist Italy.
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Season Four: The Choice2022
7.942K87h 12m
Seven years after the events of the third season, Maeve and Caleb begin to suspect that Hale and The Man in Black are trying to regain control of the human race. Meanwhile, Bernard returns from The Sublime. A young writer, Christina, begins to question the nature of her reality.
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Evan Rachel Wood Dolores Abernathy, Christina
Jeffrey Wright Bernard Lowe
Ed Harris Man in Black
Thandiwe Newton Maeve Millay
Tessa Thompson Charlotte Hale
James Marsden Teddy Flood
Luke Hemsworth Ashley Stubbs
Angela Sarafyan Clementine Pennyfeather
Anthony Hopkins Dr. Robert Ford
Aaron Paul Caleb Nichols
Crew
Lisa Joy
Jonathan Nolan
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