Westworld

Wow!  What a great show.  If you haven’t had a  chance to watch this fascinating HBO series starring Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Wright, Thandie Newton, Evan Rachel Wood and Ed Harris, you are missing out.  The series is based on the 1973 sci-fi movie thriller that starred Yul Brenner as a robot gone rogue.  This reboot builds off of that premise and runs with it.  Imagine an adult theme park  for rich vacationers manned by automatons who interact with you as if they are human.  Would you like to pretend to be a gunslinger, gambler, confederate soldier?  What about  school marm, madame or a Calamity Jane type?  Westworld caters to the basest and darkest sides of humanity.  You can kill (robots) with impunity while at the same time, they can not harm you……or can they?  There is so much to think about after every episode.  The first season ended over a week ago and I am still pondering the human and moral implications of what has happened so far.  I eagerly await season two!