‘Westworld’ Co-Creator Lisa Joy On Tonight’s Season 4 Finale Host Revolution, Who’s Really Dead & Season 5 – Crew Call Podcast
15.08.2022 - 05:35
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Warning: This podcast post-mortem contains spoilers about tonight’s Westworld season 4 finale “Que Será, Será”
We are a long, long way from the park. Remember, the western town from season one? The season 4 finale of HBO’s Westworld wrapped up tonight after a melee between humans and hosts and more questions about who is alive and who’s in the virtual Valley of the Beyond. On a special Crew Call tonight we talk with Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy to sort it all out.
You can listen to our conversation here:
Season 4 was set seven years after season 3’s revolution where we saw Maeve (Thandiwe Newton), Caleb (Aaron Paul) and a drained Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) take out the humungous, predictive supercomputer Rehoboam. Well, there was more revolution in last Sunday’s episode and in tonight’s with bodies of humans and hosts lying about.
Says Joys, “Humans and hosts, they’re just going to destroy themselves. Life on Earth as we know it is over.”
Host megalomaniac Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) deposited one of the last host pearls we know, Dolores/Christina’s into the Valley of Beyond and sealed it up at Hoover dam, just like Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) advised. The Valley of the Beyond is, well, like a heaven for hosts. It’s also called the Sublime. Charlotte also destroyed her pearl and William/Man In Black’s (Ed Harris). However, they didn’t make it to host heaven as we know it.
What now? “Sentient life on Earth has ended,” says Evan Rachel Wood’s Dolores/Christina at the end of tonight’s episode,” but some part of it might be preserved…in my world.”
“There’s time for one last game — a dangerous game with the highest of stakes. Survival or extinction,” continues Dolores/Christina, “This game ends where it began, in a world like a