Three weeks ago, when the third season was first broadcast on HBO, we realized that Westworld has changed: the series no longer focuses on the interaction between humans and androids in a western setting. We’re now in the future, it’s 2058, the insurgent robots have escaped from the humans and are planning on replacing them.

And all that great expertise with which the series narrated the genesis of self-awareness, drawing from existing theories, such as that of the bicameral mind, is now being applied to the creation of the USA of 2058. For once, instead of starting from scratch, the producers decided to work with real settings, making only little changes to them (we were given a hint about it last year when, in the last scenes of the second season, we saw Frank Lloyd Wright’s Millard House). This time, the world of the future is being narrated through modern architecture.