On Westworld, the women take the reins
THANDIE NEWTON LIKES TO TAKE THE LEAD. When I meet her, co-star Evan Rachel Wood and Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy—three of the HBO show’s fierce women—in a Los Angeles hotel suite, I dither about whether we should sit on a sectional sofa or around a table. Newton directs us to the table. “This is serious,” she says. “A table creates a kind of boundary. Let’s not be on the couch about any of this.”
Westworld combines cowboys and robots with high-octane violence and a trippy take on artificial intelligence, but it’s also a show with a great deal on its mind. It’s among TV’s most fiercely feminist visions, a series that subverts traditionally masculine genres like the cowboy serial and the sci-fi mind bender by giving women, well, a seat at the table. The show takes
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