We got some interesting hints at Cal’s backstory vis-a-vis Dempsey Jr.’s magical glasses but I’m still not sure why he’s “the worst of them” and they’re letting that mystery dangle.Īt the end of the episode Cal confronts Dolores saying, “Maybe Liam was right.The “genre” drug in this last episode was a nice touch but I really, really feel like they didn’t explore it nearly as much as they could have.Why is Charlotte’s version of Dolores so messed up that she cuts herself all the time? Did Dolores give these versions of herself all their memories? Maybe I missed something but it’s a little confusing. I’m not sure that they’ve explored the whole “put a replicated Host into a copycat version of a human being and this is what happens” angle enough.Maybe this will change in the final three episodes but right now I’m not a fan. He’s once again being used by Dolores and doesn’t know how or why. Bernard feels like he has less agency now than ever before.Only the slick production values and stellar acting remain. Everything interesting and bewitching about the original season has vanished. Delos plays second fiddle to an all-new corporate villain. Too bad, then, that the self she found has turned into such a one-note character.
Dolores was a victim through much of that season, but she was also an explorer and ultimately she found herself. A quest, I might add, that feels very flat and boring compared to the Maze from Season 1. She’s trying to destroy it or become its new master. Of course, Dolores is not really trying to save humanity.
This new invasion of privacy isn’t going to set people free, it’s going to set them against one another. Even if Serac should not have access to all of this, that Incite’s invasion of privacy-however outwardly beneficent-is wrong, that doesn’t mean that making it public is right. She achieves this, to a degree at least, by making all their private data and the predictions that results in public. What we have now is a story of Dolores apparently making it her life’s goal to take down Incite and free humanity from Serac’s magical central planning. For every moment of bafflement and confusion there was another of revelation and beauty. I swear, every time Anthony Hopkins spoke in that season I hung on every word. It just had none of the heart, none of the spellbinding introspection that captivated us as we watched Season 1. Last night’s episode, “Genre”, had all the flash and sizzle you’d expect from a big budget HBO production. Westworld, if it had to continue, ought to have been an anthology, introducing new characters, conflicts and themes each season. Like grasping for straws just to justify this show’s continued existence after the Season 1 finale-a finale which I now believe, more firmly than ever, should have been a series finale, or at least the end of the story for those specific characters. This all feels shockingly juvenile compared to the first season.
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