- Westworld
The creative in me loves Westworld for its meta commentary on the narrative paths life can take. That pilot episode is beautiful in the way it tells its circular story, a satisfying hour-long tale with a book ended beginning and end. Though things start meandering mid-way through in terms of storytelling, Westworld is full of wonderful characters and actors to carry it the rest of the way. From Ed Harris’ sinister Man in Black to Thandie Newton’s brilliant Maeve Millay, Evan Rachel Wood’s humanly robotic portrayal of Dolores and James Marsden’s comically tragic Teddy, Westworld makes this number two spot for 2016 because it dares to hold a mirror up to humanity while also holding a great deal of sympathy for them, oddly through the use of its robotic characters. – Katey Stoetzel
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