Westworld: 9 Mysteries That Season 2 Must Resolve
7. Where Is Westworld?
Where, exactly, is this massive, prototypical theme park?
Westworld is absolutely huge. It looks like it could essentially be a small state. It's clearly not endless, but it's big. The infrastructure supporting it adds to that size.
It's also not the only park. As witnessed in Westworld's first season finale, The Bicameral Mind, there's at least one other, Samurai World. Clearly a nod to how much westerns borrowed from films like Seven Samurai, this second world (and a reference to "Park 1" given to Maeve) suggests that Westworld, or at least its universe, is even more gigantic than realized.
So, again - where is it?
There are a few theories. One possibility is some sort of gigantic spacecraft, moon base, or space station. After all, androids, AI, why not spaceships? Yet that almost seems a little too sci-fi even for a show with serious sci-fi roots. A more interesting theory is that the park is on an island. There are a few clues that this could be possible:
For one, original writer Michael Crichton had something of a fetish for islands (think Jurassic Park and The Lost World, for starters). Second, Delos, the company behind Westworld, is actually a Greek island (though not nearly large enough to hold the park). And after all, the outside world has been referred to as the "mainland" on the show.
Fans want to know. Soon.