Is Westworld season 4 worth watching? Depends on what you came to Westworld for

polygon.com:

We’re more than halfway through the new season of Westworld, the dystopian sci-fi drama from writer-producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 film of the same name. And the show is far from the <a href=«https://twitter.com/sagehyden/status/1551343042132692992?ref_src=» https: www.polygon.com>halcyon days of its initial popularity

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Over the course of three seasons, Westworld has transformed into a joyless puzzle box of competing timelines and revelations nullified by the convolution and redundancy of their own execution. While it used to be a meditation on game design, the mythologizing of the American frontier, and the nature of humanity and free will, now it’s just… a lot. But now people are talking about it again — is it finally time to revisit Westworld? To tell the truth, the answer to that question is predicated on what, if anything, drew you to the series in the first place, with this latest season streamlining the overall plot of the series while at the same time indulging once again in the convoluted mystery-box reveals of its increasingly complicated chronology.

To put it frankly: I’m of two minds when it comes to Westworld season 4, so I figured the best way to sum up my thoughts about this season so far is to just put those two minds (i.e. myself, and a robot host version of my own consciousness) in a room together and have them duke it out.

[Ed. note: Spoilers ahead for Westworld season 4.]

Toussaint: Bring yourself back online.

Host Toussaint: You already made that reference in the subhed of your Westworld season 3 recap. It wasn’t clever then and it isn’t clever now.

Toussaint: Says you, asshole. Anyway, that’s neither here nor there. We’re not here to be our own worst critic,