Any World That I'm Welcome To

I've watched the first two episodes of season three of Westworld.  I watched the entire first season when it aired--not because I thought it was great, but because I was paying for HBO. I blogged about it, and as you can see, didn't think much of it.

I watched the second season on and off and, if anything, it was worse.  All the reversals of robots and robot minds doing this and that became tiresome.  And there were essentially no rules--or they could easily create a technological fix to reverse any plot problem they got into. I didn't expect to even sample the third season, but 1) I'm still paying for HBO and 2) what else is there to do?

Season three has a new twist.  Now the robots have escaped from Westworld and are wreaking havoc in the real world. At least it's something different, except it turns out to have the same problems as before.  It's once again robots versus humans (and some of the robots versus other robots) and whatever mechanical fix is needed for plot reasons is just there.

The cast still includes Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton and Jeffrey Wright, and has added Aaron Paul, among others.  Fine actors, but there's not so much interesting for them to do amid the mayhem and high-tech mumbo-jumbo.  Maybe I should stop paying for HBO.