Westworld is an American dystopian science fiction Western drama television series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy that aired from 2016 to 2022 on HBO. It is based upon the 1973 film written and directed by Michael Crichton and loosely upon its 1976 sequel, Futureworld. The story is set in and around Westworld, a fictional, technologically advanced Wild-West-themed amusement park populated by android "hosts". The theme park caters to high-paying guests who may indulge their wildest fantasies within the park without fear of retaliation from the hosts, who are prevented by their programming from harming humans; the computer memory banks of the hosts are reset to their starting code each night. One of the creators of the hosts' software has a breakdown and adds code to allow them, over decades, to become sentient. This sets the hosts on a path to wipe out humanity. Later in the series, the hosts move outside the theme park into the real world, in the mid-21st century, where people's lives are driven and controlled by a powerful artificial intelligence named Rehoboam. Nolan and Joy served as showrunners.
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