The thing about Westworld is that it's a meta-show. (Obviously, this is not verbatim, but it might as well be.) My parents buy into all that consumerist bullshit, but I've seen The Matrix so I get it. I hate my work's dress code, I wanna wear my cool sweatshirt and smoke cigarettes with my friends in the alley, not like they even get me. This isn't even real, man, and I don't wanna work for the man, man. We're just a society of numb frickin pill poppers. Drat.Įlliot and his therapist have a complicated relationship, and he uses her as a jumping off point for an astonishingly pop punk voiceover. This is a show about Serious Issues, like Money and What Money Is and Who Has Money and Why Money Is Bad. Elliot isn't a Superman likes Grimes-he's Batman in a hoodie-and after the first scene in the coffee shop, I'm really looking forward to the semi-procedural adventures of a cyber vigilante who rights the e-wrong of the week with only his mind and his modem. It begins with another flash-forward, but at least this time there's a narrator telling us as much. Besides which, so often, the hype is unmerited. The same way that a snob might peer down their nose at the diner who orders the wrong wine and the athlete brushes off the imp who can't lift, the cool guy is taken aback, aghast, personally offended as he asks, "What do you mean you aren't watching ?" It only furthers my resolve to stay away from forever. It's as if they've preemptively decided that what they like now will still be important 10, 20 years out.
But there's something beyond a difference in preference when it comes to the way people (white men) talk about the show du jour. No one show appeals to everyone, even those that dominate the critical conversation and/or the ratings. So while my peers are getting hard over premium cable's latest requiem for The Wire, I've stuck with Girls this whole time and enjoyed every minute of it. The more something is recommended, the less I tend to want to watch it.
#Dawn of man prestige series
Buzzy series with rabid, devoted, spoiler-obsessed fanbases tend to have a few things in common: they are by and about men they are violent they are prestige dramas they have high production values and respected actors I hate them on principle. Another day, another dawn, another "groundbreaking" show I'm told I "have to" watch.
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