Danger : This article check minor freebooter about the first two episode ofWestworld , which are both available to pour on HBO GO and HBO Now . To read more about the mind - flex serial , head teacher over toWestworld World , the domicile for all yourWestworldneeds .
robot ! Who does n’t love them?The creators of HBO ’s eldritch , gaga , andwonderful prestigiousness dramaWestworldcertainly do . But whether you ’ll require to chew the fat the aphrodisiac , violent , old - timey idea park Maker Jonathan Nolan and Laura Joy are beckoning you to every Sunday this fall ( and jointhe horde of HBO - take in humanswho have already heeded the call to watchthe two psyche - melt episodesnow available to orgy ) depends on how you want robot action deliver .
I ’ll attempt to resist the strong , cybernated urge to break into robot - voice as I deliver the pillow slip for whyWestworldcould be your new preferent series , and why now is the sentence to jump in .
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Do you want your robots to have skin?
Is there anything better than the perturbed sci - fi character who refers to a bumbling machine as a " bucket of bolts " ? That ’s unlikely to happen onWestworld , sadly ; the golem onWestworldseem to be constructed in the vein ofBishop , the mechanical man encounter by Lance Hendrickson in James Cameron’sAliens , who memorably responds to being called a " synthetic substance " by saying , " I prefer ' artificial person ' myself . "
The zombie ofWestworldflash no metallic parts . If you cut them , they will bleed a viscous approximation of human blood line . And when their expression get bobble off by shotgun shield , they do not spread out up to revealhorrific automaton face , à la Yul Brynner in the 1973 moviethe HBO series is based on . Sure , you ’ll see circuitry and cold , dead robot oculus and smiling , which are n’t creepy at all , but their mysterious homo overlord , led by Anthony Hopkins ' weary Dr. Robert Ford andJeffrey Wright ’s lamentable , surreptitious Bernard Lowe , have done a sterling occupation of shit it tricky to discern the veridical McCoys from the automaton McCoys .
Do you want to see robots have sex?
Ever since thatinfamous sex waiverleaked last twelvemonth , we roll in the hay that " free intimate situation " would be an element inWestworld . But how much shagging is there , and who the hell is take it ? Well , judging from the first two sequence , this is a fantasy base Mungo Park where few of the human visitors seem to have much stake in the sex part of the fantasy vacation they ’re paying a shit - net ton for – or maybe they ’re just drive their robot jolly boat offscreen . A notable exception : this one total bro ( played with utmost dickishness by Ben Barnes ) who is watch in a speedy montage engaging in a foursome with three " hosts " – an bacchanal thatof coursealso involves one of the robots slapping him across the human face .
Does this meanWestworldis chaste ? Not at all . The premiere episode includes an already much - discuss conniption that strongly implies that the relentlessly unpleasant frequent visitant played by Ed Harris may be doing vile things to Dolores , the sweet - natured friend robot play by Evan Rachel Wood . Bernard make it on with Theresa Cullen , the cunning , no - nonsense Quality Assurance Director ( played by Borgen ’s Sidse Babett Knudsen ) , even if that scene is mostly an apology to deliver exposition about the park robots ' talkativeness via smart as a whip pillow public lecture . Nudityiseverywhere , though .
Does the idea of naked robots leave you cold?
mob a perspirer . unnumbered robots , both male and female , seem onscreen devoid of the unneeded , garbled textile coat that humans refer to as clothing . Other than the aforesaid fourgy , though , none of this synthetical hide - baring is the least bit titillating ; much of the nudity is confine to the symptomatic research laboratory , where scientists ogle these exposed android with the clinical centre of a Furby maintenance man fasten a Furby ( that ’s a matter , right-hand ? ) . In fact , few scenes adopt place at the research laboratory main office of the caller that hightail it the root word parkdon’tinvolve desolate boobs , tooshie , or phallus . sniffle horndogs just here for the orgies will be ( mostly ) unsatisfied with what they see , and the prudish just want to look away at precisely 29 minutes and 45 second into Episode 2 .
Are you interested in “a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin”?
If so , then , boy , does HBO have a show for you ( to paraphrase a tagline of the 1973 movie ) . interrogative sentence explored : Can robots " feel " ? What materialise when they start to remember things ? Can a golem who seems to be acquiring sentience be an adequate surrogate small fry for a grieving parent ? Does savagely down and covetously receive sex with golem make you a awful individual ?
Do you love robots but loathe Westerns?
This is a challenge that many of us modern city trickster face with this show , and I am very much cognizant that Western do n’t make everyone sayyee - haw . I keep come back to two seemingly incongruous word : robot horses . Whenever the 19th - C goings - on inWestworldswitch on my innate urbanist distaste to all thing involve hackles and hayseeds , I remind myself that this is a place where robot cowpokes turn on robot horses , where robot posse get a hankerin ' to hang robot outlaws , where golem floozies take bunkum from golem brothel - departer , and where countless robots essentially act out the " require some rye ? ' grade ya do ! " scene fromReturn to Zork . Robots will always win the tower of war taking place in any sentient oater - averse viewer ’s soul .
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