Last week’s Westworld was a mythic mini-masterpiece, a self-contained story that showed a whole different way this show could work. This week’s episode, however – “Vanishing Point” – feels like a return to frustrating form. The sweep and power of Zahn McClarnon and Aketcheta’s showcase is gone, replaced by the …
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Welcome to Westworld, the futuristic cowboy-themed amusement park where the robots rise up in arms to rebel against their human masters, while the programmers suffer the bloody vengeance of the creatures they designed. HBO‘s puzzle-solving drama gets a major upgrade in its second season, just because the avenging robots give …
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It’s a familiar image: a strapping, confident young white guy seated in the captain’s chair of a spaceship, blaster at his hip, hair coifed just so, one elbow on the armrest, legs spread wide as if to say, “Mine is no tiny penis you are dealing with.” He’s a hero …
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