'Westworld,' an adaptation of the 1973 Michael Crichton film, starred Evan Rachel Wood and Thandiwe Newton. On Friday, HBO announced it was over.
Nothing is as it seems in “Westworld,” HBO’s hit series set in a fictional amusement park where mechanized hosts fulfill the whims of human guests.. During its run, the series garnered more than 50 Emmy nominations and a total of seven wins, including a supporting actress in a drama series prize for Newton, who starred as Maeve Millay. The series also won Emmys for makeup, hairstyling and special visual effects.
While “Westworld” concerned itself with futuristic technology and the idea of AI robots going rogue, star Jeffrey Wright said he thinks the series examined humanity on “several levels.” “What are these elements that make us human? What are our drives? What’s your emotional core? All of these things that the hosts are programmed to re-create are metaphors for how we live our daily existences,” he told“And so it’s a clever way to draw an audience in, but it’s also a useful metaphor for examining those things that we ask of ourselves: Am I in control of this loop? Is this a satisfying loop? Do I want to break this...
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