10 TV Shows That Make You Question Your Own Reality

10. Westworld

With its 3rd season currently ongoing at time of writing, Westworld has become a staple of the mind-bending TV show genre. Debuting in 2016 and based off the back of the 1973 film of the same name, Westworld is a show about a futuristic theme park which simulates the Wild West, allowing visitors to indulge in any frontier-based fantasies that they are harbouring, while engaging with a bevy of robotic hosts created by the science team running the park.

The hosts themselves are programmed to be unaware that they are in a simulation, and despite regular reboots and maintenance by those running the park, you quickly get the eerie sense that the robots are developing a much keener understanding of their surroundings and what it’ll take to escape the loop of never-ending cowboy storylines. On top of this, you’re always keenly aware that this is a show produced by the twist-loving JJ Abrams, which tends to mean you can never truly trust who is a host and who is a customer at any given time within the walls of the park.

Every conversation between host and human is charged with tension and doubt on the impossibility of finding out just how much the robots know and raises a heap of questions on the nature of predestination of fate versus aspects of personal choice in all of the characters’ actions, as well as the relationship between dreams and memory - thinking about it all for too long is pretty chilling in truth and will make you question every conversation you have for weeks after watching.