I went to San Diego Comic-Con and ended up in Westworld
HBO’s series Westworld has sparked some useful cultural shorthand for describing any kind of live entertainment where participants directly engage with actors and environments to create their own story. A Disney resort where people can have their own Star Wars adventures? That’s a Westworld. An 11-month-long immersive experience where participants try to save a young woman from a supernatural cult? That’s a Westworld, too. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a total shock that when it came time to promote its own show, HBO decided to just bring the real thing to San Diego Comic-Con International.
The goal of Westworld: The Experience is exactly that: give visitors an idea of what it would feel like to step inside the television show itself....