Westworld Season 4 Episode 8 Review

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One of the oddest aspects of Westworld Season 4 is how the quality of the episodes were so all over the map. There tended to be one very good episode followed by one really bad one, followed by one excellent one. This particular pattern continued right through the end of the season. The penultimate episode of the HBO Max series was quite entertaining and set things up for what looked like it might be a wild ride to the finish line. Unfortunately, that wild ride to the finish was instead subverted by the writers once again trying to get too cute and trying to be too smart for their own good.

When it comes to putting together a pattern of one good and one bad episode, it's a bad sign when the pattern ends up making the season finale be one of those bad episodes. Though it's hard to claim the final episode of the season was anything but the worst episode of the entire season. It appears that the creators of Westworld wanted to have one big poetic finish with the characters that fans have come to know and love. There's been quite a bit of talk that there might be a fifth season of the HBO Max series. It might be best if that wasn't the case. In this case, it feels like «Que Sera, Sera» could mean that whatever is this end, should be the end of it all.

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This episode of Westworld picked up right where the last had left off most prominently, with William truly blowing up. It is perhaps a big sign of just how bad the episode is that it manages to even waste Ed Harris in this episode. While there is some of the character that has become one of the best in the series, especially when he's killing willy, nilly, the character is wasted with a couple of scenes and a couple