These are edited excerpts from the conversation. Joy discussed anticipation culture, the coexistence of puzzle-solving and storytelling, and how much they can and can’t plan ahead.
The day after a screening event in Los Angeles, Mr. ‘The Underground Railroad’: Barry Jenkins’s transfixing adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel is fabulistic yet grittily real.‘Succession’: In the cutthroat HBO drama about a family of media billionaires, being rich is nothing like it used to be.‘Dickinson’: The Apple TV+ series is a literary superheroine’s origin story that’s dead serious about its subject yet unserious about itself.‘Inside’: Written and shot in a single room, Bo Burnham’s comedy special, streaming on Netflix, turns the spotlight on internet life mid-pandemic.Here are some of the highlights selected by The Times’s TV critics: Television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope. “Given the incredibly talented cast that we have - Angela Sarafyan is a concert-grade pianist, and Evan Rachel Wood is herself an accomplished singer - we couldn’t resist.” Reddit is “a community I’ve gotten to know and love over the years,” Mr. “But given that a lot of theorizing on Reddit got picked up by other websites and run in the first season, it sort of followed suit.”īut the joke was on the hand-wringers when what HBO actually released was an elaborate twist on the classic Rickroll, which traditionally shuttles users to the video for Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.” A brief tease of the new season’s opening moments was followed by two of the show’s robot “hosts,” Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Clementine (Angela Sarafyan), performing the Astley hit on set, and then, finally, a white dog sitting in front of piano while the score plays on a loop. “When we emerged to see that the story had been picked up all over, it was amusing and a little terrifying,” Mr. On April 10, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy were in an editing suite as the internet hyperventilated over their Reddit prank, in which they threatened to thwart spoiler theorists by releasing a video revealing all the secrets of the coming season of “Westworld,” their twisty science-fiction series.
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