How Did Westworld – Which Cost More Than Many Movies And Halted Production In The Middle – Become A Huge HBO Hit?

The project was ambitious, with $100 million in start-up costs, and the producers had to shut down production to revamp, revise and rewrite, so everyone in the industry thought it would tank. But it seems likely that “Westworld will surpass True Detective’s season-one audience and end up with the biggest viewership of any HBO first-year series ever.”