It's easy to pretend to be a Westworld fan without ever watching the show

Gizmodo

It's easy because "none of the fans actually know what the hell is going on—seemingly by design," says Sidney Fussell. "For weeks," he adds, "I’ve been running an elaborate con on friends and acquaintances, posing as a Westworld watcher and robbing them blind of the communal good feels that come from being 'part of the conversation.'" Why pretend to be a Westworld fan? Because, Fussell says, "the conversations surrounding a hegemonic pop culture product are annoying, insulting, and impossible to ignore." He adds: "Anyway, the point is that I’m a fraud. And you can be one, too! Twitter makes it easy to free yourself from Homework TV. Whenever a show’s a hit, it’s obsessively discussed on social media. Something twist-y like Westworld or, say, Mr. Robot, is also pretty much always covered twist-first by pop culture sites. So rather than meandering through a lot of plot, check out some recaps, which pretty much always give you the biggest nugget in the first paragraph. From there, it’s easy to finesse friends and acquaintances into believing you’re the real deal."

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