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Westworld: a complex tale of robot awakening has us riveted

As TV hit Westworld's robots come to some awkward conclusions about their true nature in time for the season finale, we're still hooked by the show's sheer smartness

By Emily H. Wilson

13 June 2018

Westworld robots — Two of the robot “hosts”, Dolores and her beloved Teddy
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, Series 2, HBO, to 24 June

IF YOU have yet to catch Westworld (fast approaching the end of season 2), here’s why everyone from your friends to serious philosophers have been raving about it, or even writing long, serious essays on the issues that it raises.

Westworld is set in a near future where, for a price, you can visit a super-realistic Wild West theme park in which the hosts are played by convincingly humanoid robots. As in the 1973 film on which the show is based,…

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