Usually love HBO's offerings. Rome, Oz and Deadwood are among my favorites.
But Westworld is not really grabbing me. It's two parts middling sci-fi and one part terrible Western. Haven't watched the past two episodes yet but hoping it gets better. So far it reminds me of Carnivale: the sort of low-brow, cliched intrigue that keeps you tuning in with the expectation something profound might be expressed next time, that all this schlock is building toward something which never arrives.
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