WestworldS03E03 - "The Absence of Field" (after one week)

Pop Culture Double Date

With the benefit of one week since the airing of "The Absence of Field", we look back and ask ourselves whether it's time to start worrying about Westworld. Does the show still pass muster as interesting, let alone good, television? Has the show so relentlessly cribbed from other classics of science-fiction that it is now stale? Do we actually care who is masquerading as Charlotte Hale? And is Westworld's depiction of corporate intrigue, with its unfunded leveraged buyouts and secret trillionaires, the dumbest in the history of popular culture?