
Scripted series · HBO
Westworld
These violent delights have violent ends.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Westworld actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Westworld reads strongest on World Building, Character Depth and Spectacle.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
The run
Seasons
4 seasons · 36 episodes.

Season 0 · Complete
Specials
201761 episodes
Best episode · S00E01 Season 1 Gag Reel

Season 1 · Complete
Season One: The Maze
201610 episodes
8.4IMDbWestworld - 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.
Best episode · S01E10 The Bicameral Mind

Season 2 · Complete
Season Two: The Door
201810 episodes
7.9IMDbThe 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.
Best episode · S02E08 Kiksuya

Season 3 · Complete
Season Three: The New World
20208 episodes
7.4IMDbTaking 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.
Best episode · S03E04 The Mother of Exiles

Season 4 · Complete
Season Four: The Choice
20228 episodes
7.2IMDbSeven 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.
Best episode · S04E05 Zhuangzi
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S01E10
The Bicameral Mind
Ford unveils his vision for a bold new narrative. Enlightened by Bernard and the Man in Black, Dolores comes to terms with who she is. Maeve sets her liberation plan in motion as Westworld faces a major upheaval.
- Directed by Jonathan Nolan
- Written by Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy

S01E07
Trompe L'Oeil
With Theresa's assistance, Charlotte Hale aims to expose dangerous flaws in Ford's creations. William, Dolores and Lawrence journey into treacherous terrain. Maeve delivers an ultimatum to Lutz and Sylvester. With his back to the wall, Bernard considers his next move.
- Directed by Frederick E. O. Toye
- Written by Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan

S01E09
The Well-Tempered Clavier
Maeve approaches Sweetwater's longtime outlaw Hector Escaton with a bold proposition. William tries to convince Logan to help liberate Dolores. Teddy and the Man in Black get closer to what they're looking for. Stubbs's suspicions are aroused. Ford cautions Bernard against seeking answers to questions best left unasked.
- Directed by Michelle MacLaren
- Written by Dan Dietz, Kath Lingenfelter

S02E08
Kiksuya
The past is calling, remember what was taken. "Mi cante ki yu ha ya ye." ("Take my heart when you go"). This is the telling of Akecheta's journey to consciousness.
- Directed by Uta Briesewitz
- Written by Dan Dietz, Carly Wray

S01E01
The Original
As another day of fantasy plays out in Westworld — a vast, remote park where guests pay top dollar to share wild-west adventures with android "hosts" — top programmer Bernard Lowe alerts park founder Dr. Robert Ford about incidents of aberrant behavior cropping up in some recently re-coded hosts. Meanwhile, in the Westworld town of Sweetwater, a rancher’s daughter named Dolores encounters a gunslinger named Teddy in the street — but their predictable narrative is upended by the appearance of a ruthless Man in Black and, later, by a supporting host’s unscripted encounter with an artifact of the outside world.
- Directed by Jonathan Nolan

S02E04
The Riddle of the Sphinx
Is this now? If you're looking forward, you're looking in the wrong direction. The Man in Black offers to lead the way and Delos gets a visitor. Who is James Delos? Or, perhaps more accurately, what is James Delos, the figure at the center of Delos' secret project.
- Directed by Lisa Joy
- Written by Gina Atwater, Jonathan Nolan
Recently aired
Latest Episodes

S04E08
Que Será, Será
- Directed by Richard J. Lewis
- Written by Alison Schapker, Jonathan Nolan

S04E07
Metanoia
- Directed by Meera Menon
- Written by Denise Thé, Desa Larkin-Boutté

S04E06
Fidelity
- Directed by Andrew Seklir
- Written by Allison Rock, Jordan Goldberg

S04E05
Zhuangzi
- Directed by Craig William Macneill
- Written by Wes Humphrey, Lisa Joy

S04E04
Generation Loss
- Directed by Paul Cameron
- Written by Kevin Lau, Suzanne Wrubel

S04E03
Années Folles
- Directed by Hanelle M. Culpepper
- Written by Kevin Lau, Suzanne Wrubel
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.

Jonathan Nolan
Showrunner

Lisa Joy
Creator
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Alison Schapker
Executive producer

Jerry Weintraub
Executive producer

Athena Wickham
Executive producer

Denise Thé
Executive producer

Bryan Burk
Executive producer
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Ben Stephenson
Executive producer

Richard J. Lewis
Executive producer

Roberto Patino
Executive producer

J.J. Abrams
Executive producer

Dan Dietz
Writer
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Allison Rock
Writer

Charles Yu
Writer
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Christina Ham
Writer
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Wes Humphrey
Writer

Kevin Lau
Writer
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Matt Pitts
Writer

Halley Wegryn Gross
Writer
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Karrie Crouse
Writer
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Desa Larkin-Boutté
Writer
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Will Soodik
Writer
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Gina Atwater
Writer
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Jordan Goldberg
Writer
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Ron Fitzgerald
Writer
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Kath Lingenfelter
Writer

Carly Wray
Writer

Ed Brubaker
Writer
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Daniel T. Thomsen
Writer
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Suzanne Wrubel
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Don BenskoProducer
- Dan DietzProducer
- Mark TobeyProducer
- Alison SchapkerExecutive Producer
- Jay WorthProducer
- Jerry WeintraubExecutive Producer
Writing
- Dan DietzWriter
- Allison RockWriter
- Charles YuWriter
- Alison SchapkerWriter
- Christina HamWriter
- Wes HumphreyWriter
Direction
- Andrew SeklirDirector
- Helen ShaverDirector
- Tarik SalehDirector
- Jonny CampbellDirector
- Craig ZobelDirector
- Uta BriesewitzDirector
Cinematography
- John GrilloDirector of Photography
- David FrancoDirector of Photography
- John ConroyDirector of Photography
- Paul CameronDirector of Photography
- Jeffrey JurDirector of Photography
- Brendan GalvinDirector of Photography
Music
- Ramin DjawadiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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