Westworld has spent two seasons showing us robots trying to break free of their human masters. The big reveal of Season Three is that humanity is hardly any freer — an irony at the heart of this week’s episode (“Genre”). In order to send our world crashing down, Dolores’ secret …
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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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