Westworld: Season One review



Title: WESTWORLD: SEASON ONE
Format: 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD
Released: November 6th 2017
Genre: Science Fiction / Western / Thriller
Runtime: 580 mins



THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS
HAVE VIOLENT ENDS



Without rules or limitations, who will you become when exploring your wildest fantasies? From series creators Jonathan Nolan (Interstellar, The Dark Knight), Lisa Joy (Burn Notice, Pushing Daisies), and produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and Kilter Films, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment presents HBO’s most-watched new seriesWESTWORLD: SEASON ONE.

Westworld Season 1 DVD
This new show is based on the film written by best-selling author Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) which I watched when I was a teenager with my Dad. I enjoyed the futuristic feel of the film and although its sequel Future World was not as good, this film is one that I always remembered. So when I heard that a TV show based on the film was in production I was immediately interested to see it.


The TV show is of course up to today’s standards in terms of production and as a TV show with ten hours of coverage in just the first season is able to be far more immersive than a 90 minute film ever could be. It’s a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and evolution of sin. Clearly these are topics that are very important to society at the moment so there has never been a better time to re-imagine WestWorld as a TV Show. It’s hot on the heels of TV shows such as Humans in its exploration of the themes of artificial intelligence and how humans interact with robots.


Set at the intersection of the near future and a reimagined past, the series explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. And this is a topic that many have questioned recently, as we start to develop our own real artificial intelligence that we place into robots and ask the question of ourselves - how do we treat them?


Many questions have been asked over the use of ‘sex’ robots and a robot was even granted citizenship recently in Dubai of all places, where this robot now has more rights that most women in that country.


WESTWORLD offers its guests an unparalleled, immersive universe where they have the freedom to become who they’ve always wanted to be – or who they never knew they were. There’s no rules, no laws, no judgement, it’s a life without limits.


WESTWORLD: SEASON ONE features a star-studded cast led by Academy Award® winner Sir Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs, Thor), Golden Globe winner Ed Harris (The Truman Show, Gravity), Golden Globe and Emmy® nominee Evan Rachel Wood (The Wrestler, Thirteen) and Golden Globe nominee Thandie Newton (Crash, The Pursuit of Happyness).There are also some brilliant guest stars such as Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden and many others.




4K ULTRA HD, BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL FEATURES*
• Inside Look with Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy – Season One (New Featurette)
• Imagining the Main Title (New Featurette)
• The Key to The Chords (New Featurette)
• 2017 Comic Con Panel (New)
• Gag reel (New)
• “The Big Moment” Featurettes
• Welcome to Westworld
• Crafting the Narrative
• An Invitation to The Set
• Welcome to Westworld: About the Series
• Reality of A.I.: Westworld

*Special Features are subject to change


10 ONE-HOUR EPISODES

1.The Original
2.Chestnut
3.The Stray
4.Dissonance Theory
5.Contrapasso
6.The Adversary
7.Trompe L’Oeil
8.Trace Decay
9.The Well-Tempered Clavier
10. The Bicameral Mind


Westworld is TV on an epic scale. We’ve become used to the sort of spectacular TV offered to us by Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones - TV shows that broke the mould and really tested the boundaries of what was acceptable on TV in terms of content, themes, violence and drug use. Westworld is in the same vein as these brilliant shows that came before it and paved the way. Westworld is truly immersive TV that expects viewers to be hooked from the first scenes and then binge watch several episodes at once. You will be hooked immediately.


The tagline: these violent delights have violent ends, comes from Romeo and Juliet and show go some way to explaining the type of TV show that Westworld is…. it’s a phase that keeps popping up throughout the show and works as a explanation and a warning.

Author : kevin Stanley