Note: Although the second episode of Westworld has been released early, this review will only cover the pilot.
The Turing Test has been a staple of both science and science fiction for more then sixty years. Its weaknesses and strengths poured over and parodied. But, at its core its pretty simple. Can a computer trick a human into believing that its human? The first episode of Westworld forces us into the judges' chair as we follow Teddy (James Marsden) as he seemingly enters the theme park of Westworld. We watch as he turns down a sidequest, and the advances of a saloon sex worker, before (re-meeting) Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) , the firey daughter of a rancher. Things go pear shaped however, with the intervention of the mysterious Man in Black (Ed Harris) (no, no that one, or that one) who kills Teddy, revealing him to be an android.
