HBO's new show 'Westworld' is set in a mind-bending robot theme park -- and it's about to be your next obsession

"Westworld" is HBO's latest show with potential to be everyone's new obsession. Filled with intrigue and mind-bending futurism, "Westworld" paves its own way in masterful fashion through questions that are hyper-relevant to our current exploration into robotics engineering and artificial intelligence. The show manages this while maintaining a fantastical element of late 1800s Western society and confronting viewers with questions of their own empathy and potential for cruelty. "Westworld" is based on the 1973 movie of the same name, written and directed by Michael Crichton (of "Jurassic Park" fame). The concept of the HBO show is essentially the same: In the future, humans have advanced technology to the point where anthropomorphic robots are indistinguishable from real people.