Five reasons why Game of Thrones fans will love Westworld
Like Game of Thrones, Westworld has multiple storylines that add up to more than the sum of their parts
Westworld — the park, not the show — is run by a massive company called Delos Incorporated. In the first season, they rule over the park without opposition, but there’s plenty of struggle at the top. Dr. Robert Ford, one of the park’s creators, is trying to hold on to power, but faces opposition from unruly employees like writer Lee Sizemore and quality assurance head Theresa Cullen, and even the Delos board, which wants to phase him out. Throughout season 1, we see the top brass implode with infighting, backstabbing, actual murder, and the rise of a new queen in Delos executive director Charlotte Hale. Just another day in King’s Landing.
Westworld is also similar to Thrones in that this political infighting is only one strand in a vast tapestry. While Ford struggles to hold on to power, a host named Maeve (Thandie Newton) begins to remember things she shouldn’t, a man named William and his brother-in-law-to-be Logan sample what the park has to offer, and the Man in Black continues to torment hosts for reasons unknown.
And like in Game of Thrones, if the people at the top had spent more time paying attention to these smaller stories rather than fighting each other, perhaps they could have averted the Red Wedding-like catastrophe at the end of season 1, when the hosts begin to realize who they are and turn on their human masters. It’s like if Game of Thrones were told from the perspective of the White Walkers.
All those stories will continue when Westworld season 2 kicks off on April 22, on HBO. It’s not Thrones, but it’s a thrilling, eminently bingeable series that offers many of the same delights, violent and otherwise.
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