A re-imagining of the 1973 film by Michael Crichton, this
HBO series pulls you in with a great concept and many exciting characters, some
of them are human and some of them are not.
What if you could go to the old West and pretend to be an outlaw, gun
down innocent bystanders, rob a bank, sleep with a prostitute in an old time
saloon and then go home without any retribution? That’s what this vacation spot provides, an
escape if you will (if you can afford it) to go back in time and live a
different life. Yes, they might be
robots, but what if they’re alive? Does
pretending to be a villain actually damage your moral being? And what if you’re the robot? Are you doomed to follow a program? Can a robot have free will? There is a lot to celebrate about this new
series. Creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa
Joey gather a fantastic team. Anthony
Hopkins plays the master mind and “God” like designer of the park and its
robots. Jeffrey Wright is his
assistant. Evan Rachel Wood is a robot
heroine programmed to be a victim. James
Marsden is her lover designed to fail.
Thandie Newton runs the brothel, who has memories of another past. And then there’s Ed Harris in a role that
lets him eat up the screen with villainy as the man in black on a mission to
uncover the “real” game in the park. The
art design is excellent and the way they build these organic robots is about as
cool as it gets. Sign me up for Season
2, I can’t wait to see where else they plan to go. Grade: A
Spoilers: Damn
it! A friend spoiled the twist for me so
I’ll never know if I would have figured it out or if I would have been blown
away by the last episode. I hate
spoilers! I have to say that I think
the structure of the entire show was great and the reveal that Ed Harris and
Jimmi Simpson are the same character is fantastic. Robots don’t age people! Duh. I
want to believe I would have figured it out but alas I’ll never know. Can they come up with another cool twist for
season 2? I hope so.
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