The new trailer for West World Season 2 looks awesome and SW confirmed!

West World is HBO's latest masterpiece, unfortunately, many people will never appreciate it as it is complex and confusing.

West World is a show about a luxury theme park for rich people filled with lifelike robots with advanced AI. It is a spin off the 1973 SciFi classic of the same name. The movie eventually had a sequel called FutureWorld.

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The HBO show changes the story around a lot but still pays tribute to the original with an easter egg of the robot Yul Brynner played in the original movie.

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In the movie, two friends go to the West World theme park for rich people, and things don't go as planned. In the show, the story is more about the robots than the guests. Although initially, they both play a big role.

A lot of people I have spoken with about the show, including my wife, don't get it. They give up after an episode or two because the story is deep, dark, and complex. The story isn't spoon fed like most modern shows, it will involve a lot of thought and have you thinking for days after each episode wtf is going on.

Season 1 had a budget of $100 million dollars and $25 million was spent on the first episode. The budget and complexity of the show have forced HBO to put a 2-year gap between Season 1 and Season 2.

Many have claimed the show is like a video game, the theme park has a Red Dead Redemption/Skyrim vibe to it. As you enter the park you are free to go where you want, take part in storylines (in video game speak, quests) as you choose. The further out you go, the more dangerous and exciting the stories get.

The robots are unable to kill or harm guest, but the guests can assault the robots physically, mentally, and sexually as they please. Each night the robots and the environment are "reset", something that I never really liked as it is was more far-fetched than the rest of the SciFi in the show.

Ignoring the reset issue, the show is fantastic and gripping. Once you get over the initial shock and confusion, it just piles on more wtf by the episode.

Anthony Hopkins gives an amazing performance, and not in the I'm a critic trying to promote the show sort of way.

Jeffrey Wright playing Bernard Lowe is my favorite character though, he is uncontrollably likable intellectual types. Although his character is secondary to the main characters, I find him the most interesting of them all.

I find the show especially interesting as I am fascinated with AI and the issues it presents to humanity. I won't get into that now as that's a long story and a whole nother mind fuck of its own. I'd love to chat about it sometime though, but not sure there is much of an audience for it.

One of my favorite You Tubers has a great video poking fun at the absurdity of West World. It's really is a great watch, and I don't know anyone who knows more about Star Wars than maybe George Lucas and even that I question.