The new season of Westworld trades its 'mystique for muscle.' Read our full review:
, which doubled down on the foundational mysteries at the heart of the series—about a futuristic amusement park where rich humans visit their fantasies upon an increasingly conscious population of robots—to sometimes inscrutable effect. Audiences were handed a knot ofthat was pretty hard to untie into coherent strands, on top of having to unpack a black box full of dreamy existential babble about self and soul and autonomy.
This new iteration of the show is, to use a dated word, a bit basic. It’s got some cool sci-fi stuff going on, but the twists and loops have been ironed out to create a smoother surface for more action-movie content.
What exactly is being explained to Paul, and to us, is probably best left unspoiled. The show makes some chilling suppositions about where we might be headed as we race to catch up with technology we created. It turns out that the shadowy Delos corporation, which owns Westworld and all its “hosts,” is not the only game in town when it comes to sentient A.I. Or, at least, another version of the same vague idea might exist elsewhere.
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