Episode 154
Westworld, Season 1
Supercontext: an autopsy of media · Charlie Bennett
April 26, 20192h 9mExplicit
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Show Notes
This HBO series remake about artificial intelligence, violence and consciousness was made with expert care by everyone involved in its production. But we ask, why then wasn't its depiction of its big themes ultimately satisfying?
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Additional Resources:
- Abrams and Nolan Team Up for Westworld HBO Pilot
- The Long, Weird History of the Westworld Franchise
- HBO's Westworld Extras Have to Sign a Consent Form Agreeing to 'Genital-to-Genital Touching'
- Ed Brubaker on Westworld, The Fade Out, and his immersion into Hollywood
- Your Westworld Logistical Questions Answered
- On the Ranch with the Creators of "Westworld"
- How the Creators of Westworld Built a Violent World of Robot Cowboys
- Why the Westworld Costumes Were So Complicated to Create
- The Secrets Behind Westworld's Opening Title Sequence
- Westworld's Showrunner Hint at Season 2, Discuss Show's Video-Game Influences
- Why the Bicameral Mind Theory is Crucial to Unlocking Westworld
- A New Diversity Reviews Site Rates TV Shows and Films By Quality of Representation
- Westworld, Race and The Western
- Racial Stereotyping and Westworld