Tessa Thompson has some bleak news for the escaped hosts in Westworld season 3. The show has taken a radical shift in its third season with the bulk of the action now set outside of the park for the first time. Evan Rachel Wood's Dolores Abernathy is still on her warpath and now a fully fledged enemy of the state with a growing list of allies and assets while Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) has been framed for the massacre at the park and Maeve (Thandie Newton) finds herself at the mercy of a new addition to the show, billionaire Engerraund Serac (Vincent Cassel).

The latest episode of the show unveiled one of the unseen parks, Warworld, to go along with the already revealed Westworld, Shogunworld, and The Raj alongside a surprise cameo hinting at another currently unnamed park. That park and one last mysterious one will be shown before too long as the show's creators, Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, have promised that all the remaining parks will be seen before the end of Westworld season 3. Meanwhile, Dolores and the other escaped hosts are quickly learning that the outside world isn't too different from the parks they were built in.

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In a featurette posted by HBO, Thompson, who plays Delos Executive and now secret host Charlotte Hale, and Thandie Newton discussed how the real world subverts the hosts' expectations. Thompson puts it most succinctly saying, "The hosts have this idea that they want to get out of the park (Westworld) to find freedom and then they get into the (real) world and have to ask how free it really is."

Rehoboam in Westworld Season 3

That lack of freedom comes in the form of the governing program Rehoboam. Rehoboam is a system that evaluates people and places them in their ideal careers and roles while it pushes humanity forward. In the words of one of its creators, Serac, "for the first time, history has an author." That level of societal planning should seem eerily similar to Dolores and Co. as it puts humans into situations a lot like the hosts' former loops.

Rehoboam is a fascinating addition to the world of the show and pushes the series' ideas about free will in an exciting new direction. It's an idea that would be right at home in cyberpunk stories like Blade Runner or Psycho-Pass and presents an added layer of intrigue to the guests who showed up in previous seasons. If the whole world is meticulously run by this system, a vacation to a world where you have genuine autonomy becomes even more exciting than each park's individual theme. No wonder William kept coming back year after year. It also presents some common ground for the likely impending partnership between Dolores and Caleb (Aaron Paul). The ongoing battle for freedom of various kinds will continue in Westworld on Sunday nights for the next two months.

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Source: HBO