SEASON PREMIERE: Season 2 of Westworld begins the same way Season 1 did, with Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) and Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) in a laboratory environment, quietly discussing dreams and asking some very big questions. Except this year, the unsettling dream is Bernard’s, and the relationship between these two, as well as their understanding of their inner drives and desires, has changed significantly. Westworld expands slowly but very surely in this year’s first handful of episodes, eventually taking us to another of the futuristic amusement park’s fantasy environments, Shogun World – but the inner voyages in Westworld continue to be the most significant of all. Especially this season, as the women, in particular, take charge of their own destinies. To read and hear my review on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, visit the Fresh Air website. And for a full review here on TVWW, see Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes.

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