Let’s face it – just as in life, death played a major role in Westworld’s first season, and not just because the entire park was designed for guests to get their fill on bloodletting. Whether it was the twin murders of Drs. Albert Weber (Jeffrey...
Category - Polls
POLL: Who Is the Most Human Character on Westworld?
We recently ran a story in which Angela Sarafyan, who plays (the original) Clementine Pennyfeather in Westworld, made the case that her character has the most humanity of all those on the show. That got us to thinking: if you put a gun to our head...
POLL: What Westworld-esque Shows Should We Be Watching?
2018 is, of course, a long, long wait for Westworld’s second season – that’s the bad news. The good news is that there’s plenty of other high-quality television shows to be watching in the interim. Now it’s your job to help inform all your fellow...
POLL: Which Character Had the Best Twist from Westworld’s First Season?
Dolores Abernathy (Rachel Evan Wood), Maeve Millay (Thandie Newton), Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright), Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins), and the Man in Black (Ed Harris/Jimmi Simpson) – not only are most of these actors the very best Westworld has to...
POLL: What Does Westworld Most Need for Season 2?
The sheer density of Westworld’s storytelling has not only become the hallmark of HBO’s newest (possible) flagship series, it’s also been its biggest selling point, making it be consistently listed as one of 2016’s best television seasons by critics...
POLL: Should Westworld Get Its Own Multimedia Universe?
We recently made a pretty good case for – and a pretty good case against – why Westworld should get its very own Expanded Universe, a collection of novels, comic books, short stories, and videogames (y’know, just like what Star Wars has enjoyed for...
POLL: Is Westworld HBO’s New Flagship Series?
Yesterday, we spoke about Westworld’s first-season ratings, specifically comparing the night-of numbers with the cumulative totals (y’know, adding in such modern niceties as time-shifts and streaming). While together they paint a rather rosy picture...
Poll: Who Is Truly Self-Aware?
The entirety of Westworld’s first season was devoted to the intellectually-shackled hosts shedding the limitations of their programming and attaining sentience, becoming fully-functioning lifeforms in their own right – or, at least, starting to, as...
POLL: Is Elsie Dead?
In episode 106, “The Adversary,” Elsie Hughes’s (Shannon Woodward) investigation into the strange glitches happening among the hosts at Westworld led her to a dark room. She contacted her boss, Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright)...