What I'm Watching: "Westworld"

I am loving Westworld: it's dark, slick, and cold in the best possible sense, set in a fantastical amusement park where dreams slip into nightmare and enjoyment and pleasure comes at the cost of abusing mechanical "hosts" — who teeter on the verge of self-awareness — and who exist only to gratify the wealthy guests. The cast is extraordinary, particularly when imbuing androids with more emotional depth and complexity than one finds in human characters. (And, yes, that's Borgen's Sidse Babett Knudsen.) It's Battlestar Galactica meets Dollhouse meets... Kierkegaard? It's full of philosophical riddles and ruminations on memory, identity, free will, which unfurl like ribbons twisting through a shadowy maze. I cannot wait for more.