Content & Trigger Warnings for Westworld (2016)

Period-setting racism depicted in the Western theme park and other worlds

Pervasive surveillance technology tracks everyone; characters are hunted through predictive systems

Maeve's daughter is killed in a narrative loop; the memory of her child's death drives her awakening

A host's child is killed repeatedly as part of her narrative loop

Hosts have their memories wiped and are confined to controlled loops against their will

Hosts begin to remember past trauma loops; Dolores and Maeve experience grief for losses they were programmed to forget

Maeve's search for her daughter drives intense emotional stakes; the grief of hosts remembering their loops compounds

Characters grieve the loss of their autonomy and the people they used to be

The final season deals with the grief of an ending world; characters face permanent loss and extinction

Existential despair and desire for permanent death among sentient hosts

The entire park is built on gaslighting hosts into believing their reality is real; Ford and Bernard manipulate host consciousness

A massive AI system controls humanity's choices without their knowledge; the entire society is manipulated

A host has taken control of humanity through a sound frequency; all humans are mind-controlled puppets

The host uprising becomes genocidal in scale; Dolores orchestrates mass killing of humans

An extinction-level event threatens humanity; mass death and the end of civilization are depicted

Characters are captured and held against their will in various storylines

Large-scale military conflicts and warfare escalate across seasons

Heavy blood and viscera throughout the Western setting; both human-looking and mechanical blood

Extreme blood throughout the uprising sequences; bodies pile up in graphic detail

Hosts are shown being manufactured and repaired; exposed mechanical innards, skin being printed, and bodies in various states of assembly

Hosts are torn apart and reassembled; the mechanical nature of their bodies is shown in gruesome detail during combat

Host bodies are shown in less graphic but still unsettling contexts; the blurring of human and machine continues

Parasitic technology implanted in human brains; the merging of human and machine bodies reaches disturbing levels

Frequent medical and surgical procedures on hosts including brain access through the skull

Extensive full-frontal nudity of both male and female hosts; sex scenes between guests and hosts are frequent and graphic

Nudity continues though less prominent than season 1; Shogun World sequences include nudity

Reduced nudity and sexual content compared to earlier seasons; some brief scenes

Extensive full-frontal nudity and graphic sexual content throughout

Host characters are used as sex workers in the park's saloon and other settings

Hosts are programmed to comply with guests' sexual demands without consent

Child host characters are placed in violent and traumatic scenarios

Intimate partner violence occurs within host narrative loops

Extreme graphic violence including shootings, stabbings, and scalping; hosts are brutalized repeatedly in graphic detail

Violence escalates dramatically as hosts revolt; mass killings, dismemberments, and graphic combat throughout

Violence continues in the real world setting though slightly less visceral than the park; assassinations and combat scenes

Graphic violence in the final season as hosts and humans clash in an extinction-level conflict

Constant gunfight sequences set in the Western theme park; mass shootings of hosts by guests

Full-scale war erupts between hosts and humans; constant gunfights and mass shootings

Armed confrontations in a near-future dystopian setting; tactical shootouts and assassinations

Armed combat continues as the final conflict plays out; shootings and tactical violence

A host achieves consciousness and kills himself; the question of host suicide and programmed death loops is explored

Multiple hosts choose to end their existence; human characters also die by suicide as the park collapses

Characters choose death over continued manipulation; the AI system drives people toward self-destructive outcomes

Mass suicide events occur when the mind control signal is disrupted; characters choose death as liberation

Hosts in the park are repeatedly subjected to sexual assault by guests; Dolores's assault is a recurring plot element shown multiple times

Past sexual assaults on hosts are revisited through memory; the trauma of repeated violation drives character motivation

The hosts are essentially enslaved beings forced to serve guests' every desire including violence and sex; the slavery metaphor is central

The slavery of hosts remains central; Shogun World adds feudal Japanese slavery imagery

The slavery metaphor extends to all of humanity being controlled by predictive AI; freedom vs control is the central theme

Humanity is enslaved by hosts in a reversal of the original dynamic; humans serve as mindless drones

The entire premise involves sentient beings enslaved for entertainment and exploitation

The Man in Black tortures hosts for information; hosts are subjected to repeated violence they cannot escape

Extended torture sequences in both Westworld and Shogun World settings; psychological and physical torture

Psychological torture through mind control; characters are trapped in loops reminiscent of the original park

Hosts are repeatedly tortured, killed, and resurrected in cycles of abuse