10 shows to watch if you're obsessed with 'Westworld'
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- Find your new show before the pain of "Westworld" season 2 coming to an end sinks in.
- From "Mr. Robot" to "Altered Carbon," here are 10 AI-infused shows that are sure to fill the void.
We have to face the inevitable: Westworld Season 2 is coming to an end. Soon, we'll be going through painful withdrawal from the show. It leaves a massive Westworld-shaped void that only sentient androids and cowboy hats can fill. Luckily, television is a vast treasure trove of programs, and some of them are just as gripping and mind-bending as the HBO sci-fi thriller.
If you, too, have a love of AI-infused shows, take your pick from the titles below. Each will happily serve as your host until Season 3 comes around.
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"Mr. Robot"
USA
Where to Stream: Amazon Prime Video, USA Network
Starring: Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin, Grace Gummer, Martin Wallström
Elliot Alderson lives a double life. He's an in-house cybersecurity engineer during the day, and at night, a vigilante who uses his exemplary hacking skills to apprehend felons. His life turns upside down when an underground group of hackers called "fsociety" seeks his help to abolish E Corp (or as Elliot calls it, Evil Corp), a greedy, multinational corporation.
Psychological plot twists aside, Mr. Robot depicts an eerie near-future dystopia that's a tad too realistic. It'll send chills up your spine.
"Humans"
Colin Hutton/AMC
Where to Stream: Amazon Prime Video
Starring: Gemma Chan, Katherine Parkinson, Emily Berrington, Colin Morgan, Tom Goodman-Hill, Ruth Bradley
Just as Westworld has "hosts," Humans has "synths." Synths are embedded in society, and are comparable to near-future smartphones. They're built to be robotic assistants, and exist to serve humans in a variety of ways — from carrying out household chores to driving (even romancing!). But things take a turn when a small crop of synths start to exhibit human-like behavior and mental independence. Should humans still treat them as gadgets?
"Black Mirror"
Netflix
Where to Stream: Netflix
Starring: Hannah John-Kamen, Michaela Coel, Bryce Dallas Howard, Daniel Kaluuya, Jon Hamm, Hayley Atwell
Black Mirror presents the opportunity to bend your mind and question your relationship with technology. A modern-day Twilight Zone peppered with dystopian elements and technological advancements, this anthology explores a medley of disastrous, tech-related scenarios. You'll see gadgets like a memory-erasing headband, a machine that allows you to interact with comatose patients, a digital DNA scanner, and more. These stories were created to remind us the technology we lose ourselves in could be the cause of our destruction. Creepy, right?
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