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The cancellation of Westworld in 2022 came as a shock for multiple reasons. HBO’s marquis lineup of prestige dramas have generally gotten to end on their own terms, and the sci-fi show seemed like it was hoping for one last season to tie everything together. Instead, we’re left with questions about how things could’ve gone, something even its cast is still wondering about.Alex Winter on Innovative Horror Movies In a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, lead actor Evan Rachel Wood (who played Dolores and…

Marilyn Manson has been ordered to pay Evan Rachel Wood a whopping $326,956 to cover the legal fees the Westworld actress racked up defending against the defamation and emotional distress claims previously struck from Manson’s still-pending lawsuit against her. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Teresa A. Beaudet ordered the hefty reimbursement at a court hearing Monday. It was last May that the same judge dismissed the claims from Manson’s lawsuit on the grounds that Wood was protected by the First Amendment…

Image: HBOLate Friday afternoon, news broke that HBO had pulled the plug on its sci-fi drama Westworld after four seasons. Before this, creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy had already planned to bring the twisty and often convoluted series to a close with a fifth and final season, but those plans have been dashed as Warner Bros. Discovery tries to cut costs anywhere it can following its recent merger.Even so, paydays still await the creators and its top billed cast. Per Deadline, they’ll all still be paid for the fifth…

Daniel Radcliffe said he spent many hours practicing accordion so he could portray Weird Al with some accuracy in a purposefully inaccurate movie.Screenshot: Roku ChannelThe upcoming film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is parody squared. It supposedly tells the true story of the parody songwriter “Weird Al” Yankovic, but pretty much all of it is complete bullpucky. It’s a farce of music biopics that stretch the truth in order to tell a more engaging story. From what filmmakers have shown so far, it seems to be This Is…

The Man in Black heads home.Image: HBOThe much improved fourth season of HBO’s sci-fi series Westworld concluded last night with a cliffhanger for the ages. A cliffhanger that does, in fact, set up the end of the series. We just may never get to see it.Recently, The Wrap spoke to Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy who confirmed that season 5 of Westworld will be the show’s final season. The only problem is HBO has not renewed the show yet, so it may not happen. Her quote gets into spoilers so, if you haven’t watched,…

Photo: John Johnson/HBOThe penultimate episode of the fourth season of Westworld is titled “Metanoia,” a word I was surprised to learn means “change in one’s way of life resulting from penitence or spiritual conversion,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary. I had assumed it was a portmanteau combining the words “meta-narrative” and “paranoia,” because that’s exactly what I felt when watching the episode.Has there been an episode of Westworld that you could trust less to tell you what was real and what wasn’t? Has…

Screenshot: HBOIs Westworld even Westworld if it’s not trying to break your brain? It’s a valid question, and I think “no” would be a valid answer. But since the show left the park at the end of season two to explore the dystopia of the real world, the third season felt like everything was a mystery until the final pair of episodes, which left the answers feeling either unsatisfying or unearned. Now that season four has arrived, it seems clear the show knows it can’t be completely baffling and must parcel out some answers…

Photo: John Johnson/HBOThe marketing for Westworld season four made it clear that Evan Rachel Wood—whose formidable Host character, Dolores, was obliterated at the end of season three—would return. Now that the first episode has aired, we’ve met Wood in her new role: Christina, a shy single gal in the big city. Westworld is known for throwing curveballs, but this might be its biggest one yet.Obviously Wood can’t divulge much about what lies ahead for Christina, even though every Westworld fan who’s been following the show…

Charlotte Hale in Westworld’s third season.Image: John P. Johnson/HBOIntroduced in season two as a power player at Delos, the company in charge of Westworld’s parks and its resident “host” robots, Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) has evolved quite a bit as a character, though she’s always been positioned as one of the series’ antagonists.A host since the end of season two—when her human body was swapped for a synthetic one, and her consciousness was replaced with a mind-copy of Westworld’s prime robot, Dolores (Evan Rachel…

Image: HBOIf there’s anything you need to remember from Westworld season three, it’s that Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) is dead. For real, at least according to co-showrunner Jonathan Nolan, who said unequivocally that the Dolores we’ve followed since season one is gone after her mind was erased by Serac (Vincent Cassel) in his hunt for the key to the Sublime, aka the Valley Beyond. But her sacrifice was not in vain, as she managed to inspire Caleb (Aaron Paul) to destroy the world-controlling super-computer Rehoboam and…