HBO’s Westworld Series Premiere is a barn-burning success that hits the trail galloping toward endless possibilities.
Luckily, its happy tidings that this iron horse brings to town tonight in the firstWestworldepisode, The Original.
For one of them, it is his first time in town while the other is an old pro.
She even has something resembling a sincerely developed social life.
Thus enters Teddy Flood (James Marsden), fresh off the literal train.
The Man in Black.
Its shocking, unexpected, and a blatant announcement that this is definitely not your fathersWestworld.
What does that mean about Dolores?
Is someone created with such sweetness and pure happiness simply thereonlyto fulfill perverse rape fantasies for Westworld tourists?
Is this what viewers secretly desire being given to us in a brutal, unapologetically lascivious fashion within minutes?
There arent any breadcrumbs about potential shipping romances to board or anti-heroes with a heart of gold.
From almost any shot, fascinating curiosities are raised onWestworld.
The first is the one lived in by tourists playing Cowboys and Indians with the hardwired-set.
There is also a bandit named Hector Escaton (Rodrigo Santoro) roaming the countryside.
Yet, even in the series R-rated version of aFantasy Island, strange groundwork is being laid.
At one point, Dolores meets a young child of a family that is obviously vacationing in Westworld.
What kind of attraction is this theme park exactly meant to be?
Obviously, it offers a thrill to adults who enjoy experiencing all their best and worst thoughts.
But for now, that has mostly translated into plenty of murder and cruelty.
In the meantime, much more potential is explored downstairs with the true gods of this realm.
It is all bleak grays and blacks reflected against the robots milky white.
In this realm, and acting as God surveying all of His Creation, Anthony Hopkins is a delight.
Beyond a God Complex, his motives remain almost as ambiguous as this whole worlds history.
Sizemore similarly suggests as much for this Westworld while brownnosing with his boss.
The latest novelty is reveries, which creates a kind of muscle memory from repetition within the machines.
Such is the fate for Peter Abernathy, who is Dolores programmed father.
He is also played with a teetering balance between sympathetic despair and creepy knowingness by Louis Herthum.
Even Ford seems shaken by Peters insistence on meeting his creator.
It is also the first hint of an inevitable revolution amongst the robots.
How can a park built on the thrill of danger end in anything less than the real thing?
Also, once more, it raises new insights about Dolores purpose of being.
She is apparently the oldest robot still operating in the park.
Where she, or the series, will go from there is stillwaytoo early to know.
However, already the hooks are in.
Rating:
4.5 out of 5
