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    <em>Westworld</em> Never Fixed Its Villain Problem

    The dark side of big data is a fascinating subject for TV to tackle. It just doesn’t make for a great antagonist.
    by David Sims May 05, 2020 4 minutes
    Source: HBO

    This story contains spoilers for Season 3 of Westworld.

    Every season of , HBO’s glossy sci-fi show about robot cowboys and the perils of overly ambitious theme-park design, diagnoses a new villain in society. In Season 1, the evil was , as illustrated by how easily people unleashed their violent tendencies when allowed to roam free in a grown-up playground. In the , the true evil was Westworld’s corporate overlords, who were revealed to be profiting from the park by surveilling its visitors’ every move. The third season, which aired its finale on Sunday, took the show’s plot to its logical conclusion by leaving

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