At the midpoint of ‘Virtu e Fortuna’, Dolores encounters Peter Abernathy, the host who – for a time – was her father. On seeing her,…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeMay 7, 2018
Let’s take this one chronologically. We begin (as best as we can tell) with Arnold and Dolores in a high-rise hotel room somewhere in Asia.…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeMay 1, 2018
Three things about this episode. Firstly: bullshit. "I wanted to tear the bullshit they were teaching you right out of your head and shove the…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeApril 28, 2018
To address the concerns about the first season of Westworld: far too much of the narrative hinged on the revelations of mysteries. Some of these…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeApril 24, 2018
In some ways, we all live our lives with cover. There's us, the one we put out to others. The lie that we believe and…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeApril 23, 2018
There is so much tension occurring within The Americans it’s impossible to imagine how the Jennings household is going to make it to next week,…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeApril 13, 2018
It’s often difficult to accurately recall just how subjective teenage experience can be. We all like to think we grow up with increasing sense of…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeApril 12, 2018
Final seasons are always laden with portentous emotion. Sometimes its inherent in the writing of the show (Six Feet Under, for example), and other times…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeApril 6, 2018
I quote it often, but it’s hard to go past. Umberto Eco – initially in reference to his inversion of the detective novel The Name…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeApril 4, 2018