Originally Posted by
Dan333SP
A friend of mine came to dinner with my wife and I a week ago, she'd apparently enjoyed a fair amount of home herbal remedies before our meal and spent about an hour trying to explain the backstory of this show to me. I was pretty confused but it was more the storytelling than the story.
Verizon is giving us HBO for free until December so we might as well give the show a shot.
It's good so far and the premise is straightforward enough (for a sci-fi): West World is essentially a theme park for the wealthy to live out their wild west dreams. WW employs synthetic people and animals and the guests can't be hurt, so anything goes. Problems start when some of these synthetic hosts have the flickerings of consciousness or something close to it.
Huge star power on the show:
Sir Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton and James Marsden among others.