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Spoilers for season two of Westworld below!

So far, Westworld's second season has been all over the place. Not only are we following hosts and humans alike as they navigate the dangers of the park now that all hell has broken loose, but we're also getting a few substantial glimpses of the real world courtesy of a few flashbacks. The only problem? Well, it's starting to get a little hard to keep track of where - and when - the events in HBO's sci-fi epic are actually taking place. The season two premiere introduces a back-and-forth timeline to help explain what's been going on since Dolores's brutal massacre in the season one finale, and the second episode only doubles down on adding new storylines to the mix. Confused? Let's lay them all out ahead, from most current to least current.

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Going on a remote and bucolic holiday can be a risky business if you’re a movie teen feeling the first throws of love and, let’s be honest here, just plain thirsty. Sooner or later, that young and supple flesh will attract the unwanted attention of a hulking masked serial killer, and sure as eggs are eggs, by hook or machete, adolescent blood will be spilt by the gallon. Until one blue-eyed, blonde and always celibate girl is left standing, half-naked and traumatised. It is a gory and titillating premise hacked into the teen slasher genre, which had its heyday in American cinema in the early 1970s with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, ending in the mid-1980s with Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. They, and imitators alike grossed billions and billions of dollars at the box office.

The horny teen killing business has proven to be, well,...