Last year, Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan‘s HBO sci-fi drama “Westworld” dropped jaws with its balls-to-the-wall first season finale.
Set in the future in a Wild West theme park where morality is removed and human desire is indulged without consequence, “Westworld” follows the park’s hubristic engineers, uncannily humanoid hosts, and often-sadistic guests as they embark on paths of dark, twisted fantasies.
The show’s Shakespearean axiom, “These violent delights have violent ends,” proved true in the final hours of season one, as once-mild-mannered country girl host (aka artificial intelligence android) Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) gained sentience and murdered Westworld genius and creator Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins).
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