‘Westworld’ 1.01 “The Original” Review: Violent Delights, Violent Ends

• What’s going on behind-the-scenes?

In the lab, Bernard tests the broken town sheriff while Cullen and Sizemore stress about how “unscripted” the narrative has become. Cullen is obviously the controlling type and seeks to impose absolute order on the chaos of the park. Clearly she never heard that “life, uh, finds a way.” Sizemore meanwhile is overtly concerned with the integrity of the story he’s written, rather than the people/robots involved in them.

He argues that Lowe and Ford are so obssessed with “life-like” robots they haven’t stopped to wonder if that’s a good idea or if it’s even what newcomers want from Westworld. He throws his support behind the coldly pragmatic Cullen. Westworld can’t possibly be all there is to A.I. technology. Hello Corporate Greed! I wondered when you would show your face.

Sizemore’s speculating raises a good question: what’s going on behind the scenes? What is the world like outside of Westworld, a world where A.I. is not only real, but commonplace? The pilot doesn’t answer these questions, but it raises them.