Yo! We're back from the cottage! This was supposed to come out before we left but we never got around to it. So here it is...
This week we're talking about the mind-bending show "Westworld"... an HBO television series about some androids in the wild west (actually a theme park) and their gaining sentience and starting an android revolution against the humans that have consistently raped and murdered them (also the show has samurai androids, robot tigers, a giant thinking techno-ball and cyberpunk Jesse Pinkman). It is somewhat serendipitous cause we watched the first season at my cottage two years ago together so it's cool that we're coming back to it just before we head up again. Time is a flat circle. Much like the previous whole series episode that we did (we did one on the "Hannibal" series a month or so ago that you should check out), this episode finds us ranting and rambling about all three seasons and the series as a whole. We spend time comparing the seasons against one another, exploring the themes of the show (sentience, humanity, free will, slavery, consciousness, etc.), revisiting our favourite moments, exploring the narrative choices and the use of various timelines with the show, and talk about what we would choose as our own "Westworld".
Also, we talk about the future of VR, ask ourselves what we would like to do and if we could be evil in Westworld, and the current state of television. This show is awesome. Full of amazing acting, wild violence, really good cinematography, science fiction themes and inventive storytelling. The cast is unreal. Everything about this show rules. Even the not-so-great third season is still really good. If you haven't seen it, go watch it on Crave. Or buy the seasons. It's worth it. Next week? A surprise.
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