The highly anticipated second season of HBO’s critically acclaimed series Westworld returns for season two in April it has been confirmed.
Season one of Westworld attracted a strong audience for showcase when it premiered in October 2016, establishing the addictive western thriller series as one of Foxtel’s great cult hits for that year.
Featuring an exceptional cast including Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden, Thandie Newton and Ed Harris, the provocative Emmy-nominated dark odyssey explores the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin.
Set in the not-too-distant future, Westworld is a futuristic adventure park modelled after America’s Wild West. For over 30 years,guests have paid exorbitant amounts to be immersed in the Westworld universe, where every detail and scenario – including thoseinvolving the android ‘hosts’ that are virtually indistinguishable from humans – have been planned, scripted and executed by a teamof brilliant scientists and programmers working in close proximity to the park. However, a group of the android hosts soon begin todeviate from their programmers’ carefully planned scripts, in a disturbing pattern of aberrant behaviour.
Westworld was inspired by the 1973 motion picture of the same name, written and directed by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park). Season one of the HBO series received 22 Emmy Award nominations.
Westworld returns express from the US, on Monday, April 23 at 11.00am AEST with a primetime encore at 8.30pm AEST, only on Foxtel’s showcase.
