WestworldIt takes viewers on a journey through time.
Maeve (from the HBO series Maeve) appears in the July 3 episode.Thandiwe NewtonCaleb (Aaron Paul) step off the train and into the Roaring ’20s. The duo see flapper-esque hosts strut through the rowdy streets of Chicago, ready to do the Charleston and drink the night away.
The park’s name is partly a reference to the current coronavirus pandemic and the decade in which we live. But it also has its ties to the original park set in the Wild West.
“In so many ways it was a perfect decade to go to,” executive producerAllison SchapkerE! News. “In cinema, I really feel that the gangster is a direct descendant of the Western Gunslinger. And it’s also a time of corruption, law-breaking and, obviously—not just limited to prohibition—but the whole gangster kind of era.”
Plus, Allison said, “We couldn’t resist all the accoutrements too, like the costumes and Tommy guns.”