It’s not your fault if you’re totally confused by the advertising for “Westworld,” which premieres on HBO Sunday.
The billboards for the series, an update of a 1973 film starring Yul Brenner, feature a metallic-looking female figure reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” — the name of that image of a man in perfect proportion within a circle — with Western mountains as a backdrop. Which tells you… nothing.
At least, it tells you nothing about the plot of the show. It actually tells you a lot about the ideas behind it. I’ve seen the first four episodes, and I think the show is a lot more interesting for the ideas it explores than for the story it tells, at least so far.