Daley Review: Tv, Movies, And Books - This Is Us | The Orville | The Mist | The Leftovers | Handmaids's Tale | Colony | Westw

What an episode, right? We have this show which has all the trimmings for Hollywood success: It's a reboot of a 1973 sci-fi classic written and directed by Michael Crichton. It's got BIG stars. KNIGHTED stars. Even CYCLOPS. It's got classic, Frankenstein inspired themes combined with just-out-of-our-reach tech. It's got Jonathan Nolan, the guy that wrote Interstellar, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, and The Prestige in charge of the whole thing (with his wife, Lisa Joy Nolan). AND it all seems to actually WORK for once! This show has that carefully polished sheen you'd expect from HBO these days, but it goes further than meeting expectations set by watching Game of Thrones. You get the sense that although we may be at the beginning of our adventure with Bernie and Delores, we're actually very late to the party. Things have been happening in Westworld for a while, but now they're getting interesting. Dropping us into the story like this gives us the natural desire to see the story move forwa