HBO’s Westworld Lookin’ Like Privilege Run Amok

One thing we HBO subscribers or HBO bootleggers or borrowed my friend’s mama’s boyfriend’s HBO Go Account login info people have to get accustomed to is the inevitable L.A.G.O.T. that is going to hit us swiftly and without mercy. Life After Game of Thrones. The last two seasons are set, they’ll be abbreviated (8 episodes each) and before we know it, our favorite source of violence and sex (sometimes even consensual…) and dragons will have run its course. It’s time for contingency plans. Or at least, that’s what HBO is thinking with their newest big scale series in Westworld. HBO is once again going with the formula of adapting a story (Michael Crichton’s Westworld was a movie released in 1974) for its next big thing. We’ve seen trailers before, but this is the first one where you actually get a sense of what the hell is going on. It looks like an artificial world has been built, akin to the old dusty and gunslinger west, that lets really wealthy muthafuckas drop in and visit. So because people got bored with visiting developing countries and thinking shit is flames because of all the tourist money they drop in it, they have developed a way to “authentically” replicate a time long gone past to visit.

The catch is, the people in Westworld think that world is real, either by AI or avatars of real people or reanimated dead people or…you know what I don’t really fucking know. And that’s cool too. You know when little Black boys telling you that you’re not real, then you nee…