This Westworld review contains spoilers.
The longer I work here, the more I think I understand the hosts.
Its human beings who confuse me.
These are the words of Bernard Lowe moments before a shocking revelation.
Perhapstheshocking revelation of the whole first season.
In fact, if I may gloat a moment,I did.
Ah, that feels good.
Its a grim moment when Bernard leads Theresa into the House of Ford.
There was the first red flag.
If she had been more thoughtful, she wouldve run before Ford could flip Bernard into murder mode.
Alas, Ford monologues just enough to reveal (or hint at) a number of fascinating facts.
This raises the question of whether Charlotte herself is another off-the-books host engineered by Ford to test Theresas loyalty.
Which brings us back to Bernard.
How exactly does Bernard have a wife and son if he is in fact a host?
Similarly, when Theresa brings up the subject of Arnold, she asks if Ford had Bernard kill him.
Ford dismisses this by saying that Bernard was not here when Arnold died.
But in near contradiction, it is also likely the area where Arnold had discussions with Dolores.
Speaking of Shakespeare, Ford himself quoted the Bard again as a seeming signal for Bernard to murder Theresa.
Could this mean that Ford is causing his robots to be infected with sentient thought?
Its probably just a nice thematic irony that Shakespeare prompts homicidal robots.
but that isnt what drove Bernard.
Many of us to this day suspect Harrison Fords Deckard is Replicant in that movie.
After all, hunting dangerous robots and terminating them is risky work that could end in your demise.
Plus, its glorified assassination scuzziness.
So send a machine to do the job.
After all, it arguably has worked with Arnold, and maybe Ms. Charlotte Hale too.
Hes sentimental like that.
And I write this, because her character is starting to fall into the Lee Sizemore camp.
It is all a bit too cute and out-of-sync with the rest of the series.
Yeah, good luck with that.
This is also again a scene where the series is playing with fire.
Even Charlotte and Theresa arent shaken.
This is expected for them too.
If a man assaults a woman, things are going according to plan.
However, the acceptable abuse of Clementine extends beyond her demoralizing suffering here.
She might just have been written out of the show when Sylvester follows orders and decommissions the host.
She knows that shes really good at death (and she is).
She cant wait to share it with these boys if they dont help her escape.
The episode also included some classic Western cliches in the William and Dolores subplot.
But much of this just felt like our action quota for the hour.
Not that Im complaining.
Those panoramas of what I assume is Utah are obviously breathtaking.
On the character side, we finally did see William consummate his relationship with Dolores.
Dolores is showing genuine signs of self-awareness.
She seems to be really into William for more reasons than her programming.
He might love Dolores… and maybe even she loves him (however unlikely that might be).
Well, this isnt going to end well.
If he doesnt want to believe me, just ask Theresa or next weeks Robo-Theresa.
Rating:
4 out of 5
