‘Westworld’ Season 4 Teaser Trailer: It’s A Perfect Day For A Return On June 26

What’s going on in the world of HBO’s Emmy-winning sprawling and cerebral sci-fi dystopian TV drama “Westworld”? Well, in many ways, “Westworld” jumped the shark really fast. Created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, based on the 1973 film of the same name, “Westworld” did incredible ratings in season, caught the pop-cultural world by storm and was all poised to become the next “Game Of Thrones,” until “Westworld” decided to get a little too clever with itself and blow itself entirely up at the end of season one. Season two rating plummeted, and yet, here we are six years later and “Westworld” is still apparently doing enough ratings that it’s still going strong for a fourth season.

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Maybe that’s because of the spectacular cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Aaron Paul, Ed Harris, Luke Hemsworth, Simon Quarterman, Vincent Cassel, Angela Sarafyan, Tao Okamoto, and more.

“Westworld” season three ended May 3, 2020 and more than two years later the show is finally returning, delayed of course because of the global pandemic. “From the Western theme park to the technocratic metropolis of the near future, we’ve thoroughly enjoyed every twist and turn from the minds of master storytellers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy,” Casey Bloys, president, HBO Programming said in 2020 when the show was renewed for a fourth season. “We can’t wait to see where their inspired vision takes us next.” That’s real faith, and probably shows that while not the water-cooler show it once was when it barreled out of the gate, it’s still probably doing good numbers on HBO.

But there is a method to the madness. “When Lisa and I were talking about the pilot, one of the things that was most exciting to us was, you learn the rules of these creatures and their world, and then you spring them out of there,” Nolan told Variety in 2020. “And you’ve withheld from the audience, for the most part to that point, what the outside world looks like.”

Tonight HBO quietly released a viral trailer for the show, titled, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”— a reference to the line the “Westworld” robots say when they see something that could hurt them like evidence that they were a robot—and announced the series returns on  June 26, 2022.