Is talking about Westworld more fun than watching Westworld?

The Washington Post

The co-host of the Watching Westworld podcast, A. Ron Hubbard, spends 15 to 20 hours each week dissecting each episode. “Sometimes, the pleasure is seeing the theories and thinking about it,” he says. “The better an episode is, the more fun the actual viewing of it is. The more abstract it is, the more fun it is to talk about.” That's why Westworld has become such a divisive show. Some viewers are annoyed because they don't understand what's happening -- while its most devoted fans find that the mysteries make the HBO drama even more intriguing. Westworld star Jeffrey Wright says the show may have created an entirely new kind of fandom, allowing the show to live a new life on social media. “Occasionally I pop over to Reddit and Twitter and check in on people’s theories. In some ways, I consider it another realm of the show, another layer of the storytelling,” says Wright. “People dive in with their imagination and ideas and, in some ways, have created another writer’s room. The fascinating narrative tangents that fans are creating — it’s something I’ve never experienced before in a show I’ve worked on.”

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