Westworld Recap: The Original

***Spoilers be tough talk and slow drawl until they realize they shootin’ blanks***Season: 1 / Episode: 1 / HBO Westworld finally in the Building / on the Range / Up in the Saloon, whateva. This shit been a long time coming fam. Are you ready to get into this Real Virtual Reality?!?! Let’s start this shit up. Not many better ways to start a series off than hearing the feathered voice of Jeffrey Wright, yo. 12 seconds into this shit and I’m relaxed as fuck, sliding down in my chair like I had a masseuse working out the tension in my shoulders… …if it weren’t for the very creepy and battered face of Dolores Abernathy staring off into the abyss with a fly crawling around her eyes and shit. Dolores doing some day in the life type shit in a place that isn’t a lab where she getting interrogated while in the nude. Cats on the train into town while one dude talking about his previous conquests on the town. D-Lo talking about the newcomers and she must mean the rich muthafuckas that pay to live out their greatest / terrible fantasies.

Fresh faced dude (Terry) walking through town fresh off the train. He roll up in the saloon and is immediately greeted by an, ahem, woman working hard for the money. Terry like, nah fam, I’d rather earn it and I might have spent all my loot just getting to this place. Then we get to see the madam, Maeve, or Thandi Newton DA GAWD, make her appearance and is like, yo, you always paying for it. Stay woke.

But Terry sees D-Lo across the way and rushes …