To borrow a cliché: The plot thickens. That was my first reaction after seeing episode 3 of HBO’s Westworld. During the first two episodes—“The Original” and “Chestnut”—the series introduced the main characters and began the plot of a glitch that caused the android hosts of Westworld to malfunction. Now that we know the characters...
Westworld is a theme park. It’s a tourist attraction. It’s competing for the same dollars as Las Vegas, Miami, New Orleans, and other popular destinations across the globe. Like Disneyland, tourists flock there to submerged themselves into fantasy, and like Las Vegas, they come to engage in activities that they either wouldn’t or can’t...
I love the what’s happening with television these days. Television has always been about entertainment, but the best entertainment insists on being something more than just entertaining. It insists on delving into the characters, exploring their emotions and the reasons behind them, understanding their goals and motivations, and examining their morals, psychology, and desires....
I don’t remember much about the 1973 Michael Crichton movie Westworld. Though I remember seeing it and liking it, I also know that it was never a movie I felt a need to see a second time. But when I saw that HBO was rebooting the idea as a series, I found myself excited....
One strength of a television series like Game of Thrones is its ability to explore character. Characters have several episodes, several seasons, to develop and change. We call this transformation character arc. When I binge watch a television series, it tends to be the plot that keeps me watching, one episode after the next....
This is not a review. This is not a critical essay. This is a rant. And since this is a rant, please do not expect it to be organized. Please do not expect it to be logical. And least of all, please do not expect it to spoiler free. I’m ranting against something that...
Sense8 is an original Netflix series about eight people around the world who become aware of each other. These sensates, as the show dubs them, share sensual perceptions–sight, sounds, tastes, etc.–visit each other psychic visions, and adopt each other skills to solve individual and group problems. It is an interesting show that is a...
