Westworld Season 4 Episode 4 Review

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The writers on Westworld are never happier than when they are totally confusing their audience. Sometimes, there are times when this works very well. It certainly rewards people that are paying attention to every little head nod and whisper from the previous week or even the previous year's run. On the other hand, when a show goes out of its way to confuse at every turn, it can lose the thread. That seems to be the case with this week's version of Westworld where the writers were more interested in «the twist» than they were telling a really coherent story.

This was never more obvious than in one particular scene where a character first says that they won't rest until they've stopped their enemy. When that enemy responds that they're unlikely to live to see the end of the fight, they respond with «I don't care.» It's that kind of desire to lay down some lines without paying attention to what the conversation actually was. There are a couple of different ways in which this conversation could have gone, but in the end, they chose a rather lame way for everything to play out. Westworld has certainly done this before. There are times when the show thinks it's smarter than it is, and the end result is a kind of annoying feeling where the audience just wants at least one of the storylines to look like it might eventually reach a conclusion.

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This week's episode picked up mostly where Episode 3 of Westworld left off, with Caleb having been infected by the parasites and trying to figure out how he could get away from Hale and somehow fight the control from the things the audience has seen take over people before. This is also where the twist for the sake of a twist seems to come into play as