Before I started watching the show , someone was talking about it and I said , Yeah , it ' s The Matrix but with cowboys . He got put out and said it ' s a lot more than that . Upon watching the show more , I found it easy to drift away from that synopsis because of things like the dressing room scene or Ford and the field team ' s trips into the park to deal with issues or talk to guests . However , given the show ' s commitment to exploring the shock of realizing that your own world is fictional , I think a great reveal would be that the impracticalities of Westworld in terms of size , repair costs , bullets , etc . can be explained by the fact that Westworld is simulated or a false memory that robots can live through as though its real .