Is HBO ready to give us our next favorite TV show? That’s putting a lot of pressure on Westworld, which the network likely would have preferred be ready for this summer after season six of Game of Thrones finishes up. Instead, production delays (due to script rewrites and reshoots) pushed the show’s debut to October.

But fans who tuned in for Game of Thrones‘ pivotal episode, “Battle of the Bastards,” got to see a new teaser trailer for the series, which has the behind-the-scenes creative power of J.J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan behind it. But if you’ve been yearning for a show with cowboys, Indians, creepy scientists, naked women and killer robots, Westworld could soon be your new favorite. Check it out:

It’s like Deadwood with robots! OK, let’s hope it’s not quite like that.

The success of Game of Thrones (and True Blood, to a lesser extent) has shown that HBO can make ambitious television in the science fiction and fantasy genres. Westworld looks like a push into harder sci-fi with psychological character drama. The series is a remake of the 1973 sci-fi western written and directed by Michael Crichton, depicting a futuristic theme park in which androids malfunction and begin killing people. Unlike the movie, however, the show will tell the story from the viewpoint of the androids.

As the trailer demonstrates, characters are questioning the nature of reality, especially in regards to artificial intelligence. If a construct believes it is real, then is it real? Like one of the robots says, if you can’t tell whether or not something is real, does it matter? The android played by Evan Rachel Wood may have believed she was a real person before she begins to question her existence. James Marsden and Thandie Newton portray two of the other androids, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, some characters may be killed off during the course of the series and brought back with different personas. That could also allow Westworld to be more of an anthology series over multiple seasons, as these androids are rebooted.

Westworld will premiere in October (an exact airdate hasn’t yet been announced) on HBO.

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