kmart, I'd advise you to not read this thread until you've finished Season 1. It's very likely that you'll get major plot twists spoiled for you if you hang around here. If you want to read others' reactions, dig up the original Westworld thread and follow that as you go through the episodes... though be warned that that might spoil some things, too.
I say that because anyone who is a member can edit the episode count on IMDB, it's not an official source. Looking at episode counts for cast members prior to a show airing is not reliable.
That may be true when the air date is a long way away, but the reliability increases as the air date approaches, and we're only 3 weeks away from Season 2 starting.
A lot of people think that sites being editable by anyone makes them unreliable, but that fact actually
increases reliability more than it decreases it. It means that new information can be added as soon as its learned and incorrect information can be corrected as soon as its spotted. Contributions of good information dwarf contributions of bad information.
The Season 2 credits on IMDb are
very specific at this point. Besides several of the main actors being credited in every Season 2 episode, there are dozens of minor characters who are credited with being in specific episodes. For example, the little girl who plays Maeve's daughter is credited in about half of the episodes. Why would we know such specifics about a child actor who hardly has any lines, but we don't which episodes Jimmi Simpson, a
star actor from Season 1, is in (aside from the premiere)? Surely someone should know, and the fact that anyone can edit IMDb should mean that someone should've updated it by now if it were incorrect.
Anyways, we'll see. Maybe it's incorrect, but the fact that he's in only one scene of a 2-minute trailer seems to corroborate the possibility that his role is significantly reduced from last season. I think that it also makes perfect sense for him to be in the premiere to tie up some loose ends and the two seasons together, but also not much sense to have him very much in this season, because this season is supposed to be moving forward, not looking back.