Most of all, when I look at the big ending reveal with Charlotte, I can’t help but wonder why the show took this path at all, because timeline four ends up feeling completely unnecessary.

Or perhaps it’s just hard to watch an episode that’s constantly explaining itself as it goes along, just as it’s hard to watch an episode stretched out to 90 minutes be full of relatively dead air.Įven the ending series of vignettes play out with little dramatic purpose, an inhuman series of speeches where characters seem to lecture one another rather than discuss or fight.

Perhaps it’s that the episode has no real dramatic pacing, rhythm, or crescendo, feeling hurried and yet static all at once, especially as it goes through a lot of purposeless cross-cutting. What should feel like a cathartic release, or a dagger to the chest, instead largely feels like a dreamy act of treading water - one where I couldn’t help but find myself feeling disaffected by the majority of it. Not just in terms of certain logical points (which we’ll get into), but I’m wondering about the overall storytelling approach. But we have come to the end and I have to admit that this finale is not only my least favorite episode since the season-two premiere, but also that I’m a bit perplexed. After a tepid start, we’ve experienced a lot of peaks and valleys and the show was often at its best when it pulled away from the guessing games and layered timelines and told contained, humane stories. The question will be whether or not the audience is hooked from the beginning.The first season of Westworld held a somewhat common dramatic shape: After a raucous start, it slowly devolved into some narrative wheel-spinning before it came roaring back to life with some late-game fireworks. Westward was bogged down by production delays to ensure quality, so the bar is set high. So where can you watch the series premiere of Westworld and when will all of the action be going down? She’s dangerous as hell though, so there’s that element to watch out for. She’s unhinged but we’re rooting for her, in a weird way, since she’s learning more about herself. There’s also that whole psycho thing going on with Maeve. Questions were raised last week, when we learned more about The Man in Black’s backstory, but it didn’t really provide us with any answers.

Everyone is indulging in theories about William and the Man in Black, and we’re hoping to get more answers on that front tonight. Whether you’re super into the show or just casually watching, everyone has a theory. That means we only have two more hours left of a series that has captured everyone that watches even a few seconds of it.

The only downside is that we’re nearing the end of this first season of the show, as the penultimate episode is slated to air tonight. But regardless, HBO has another hit on its hands, which is never a bad thing.

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