Westworld pits Dolores against Maeve, giant killer robots against humans and the Man in Black against his worst enemy: himself. Our recap
The end result is a whole new form of group therapy, in which all of our man William’s incarnations — insane and broken mental patient, murderous Man in Black, dapper philanthropist, idealistic young man , and deeply damaged little boy — hash it out under the watchful eye of his dead father-in-law, James Delos .
“If you can’t tell,” he mumbles, prior to beating all his former selves to death, “does it matter?” Nature, nurture, potato, poDolores does, interestingly enough. When her Charlotte incarnation complains about the emotions she’s having as a result of her roleplay, Abernathy 1.0 shoots down the idea of shutting them off with the flick of a digital switch.
Of course, that’s easy for the original Dolores to say. She gets to stay in her own body, while her clones are sent out to posses replicas of other people — pawns in a game of chess in which she is the black queen. The versions who inhabited the body of Connells, Incite’s security guru, suicide-bombed himself to preserve the mission. “Charlotte” nearly gets blown to smithereens when Serac’s men detonate her family car; her family isn’t quite so indestructible, sadly.
A lot more happens: Serac finalizes his takeover of Delos, which rebrands as Incite immediately. He then goes to work eliminating host bodies and brains at the theme park’s “Mesa” HQ. Hector Escaton dies, seemingly once and for all, when Charlotte/Dolores crushes his “pearl” in her hand. William decides that the moral of his life story is “I’m the good guy,” at which point he gets rescued from his simulation by Bernard and Stubbs.
Add it all up, and what do you get? An episode exciting and jam-packed enough to help us put some of our reservations about the course of the show aside, at least for the time being. Is it still a bit glib with the violence? Yes. Is Serac still a bit too much of a one-note supervillain? Yes. Did a gigantic riot-control robot pulp a bunch of redshirts as part of a war between beautiful murder androids? Yes.
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