Westworld
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Seven years have passed since theWestworldseason-three finale, both in the show and in the real world.
(Just kidding on the latter.
Season three aired in 2020, only two years ago.
But if you cant tell the difference, does it matter?)
That said,Westworldhas played with secret time jumps and flashbacks before, so time vigilance is recommended.
Ready to decipher the new mysteries in store for season four?
The season opens with a shot of what gives the impression of the Las Vegas skyline.
Its a dry and rocky desert as far as the eye can see.
The man inadvertently chooses the latter, turns William down, and returns to his black-and-white home.
There, a swarm of scary and loudly humming flies attacks him.
First, we are reintroduced to Evan Rachel Wood, who is now playing a character named Christina.
She works at a video-game company called Olympiad Entertainment, where she creates games based suspiciously on Westworld storylines.
Her former lover (James Marsden) waits in the proverbial wings for an inevitable meet-cute.
Maya so far seems like she dropped into the narrative right out of a romantic comedy.
Shes supportive, upbeat, and a little too concerned with her BFFs love life.
Given the nature ofWestworld, I trust that this trope will be deconstructed and explored.
She gets threatening calls.
Someones on the fire escape knocking over plants.
Various people rumble about the Tower in hushed tones.
Christina has no idea what hes talking about.
All these people do what you want them to, he says.
Whats going on with Christinas storyline?
Also, who is Christina?
This host has Doloress body, but not necessarily Doloress mind pearl.
If shes living a modern adaptation of Doloress loop in the park, why?
What purpose does that serve?
Is it some punishment?
Is it possible that New York City has become an isolated robot theme park?
Seems unlikely, but Christina does find an image of the maze from season one on her fire escape.
We first check in with Maeve, who is living off the grid in the woods.
Her isolation in this episode is short-lived, however.
She beheads one of them with a hatchet (!)
and determines that William sent them.
He has a wife named Uwade (Nozipho Mclean) and a daughter named Frankie (Celeste Clark).
Frankie has a violent streak, and Caleb is ready for the war to return to his door anytime.
It does, first by way of one of Williams men and then Maeve.
Caleb leaves with Maeve to finish what they started.
But she gets discouraged and tells herself that nobody cares about that kind of story.
Were programmed, forgive the pun, to believe that stories about women just arent interesting or important.)
Its a return to something, even if we dont know yet know exactly what.
Loose Screws
Where is Bernard?
Show us the dusty boy!
Huuuuuugeshoutout to Murphy beds.
The book that Caleb reads to his daughter isMy Fathers Dragonby Ruth Stiles Gannett one of my personal favorites!
As the title suggests, it is also narrated from the future by the protagonists child.
Peter shares a name with Doloress father in the park, who was decommissioned after he started bugging.
The blues in her pajamas and suit are muted but blue nonetheless, just like Doloress dress in Westworld.
Pretty much everyone else wears black, white, or gray.
Maeve, who has her signature hints of red.
It has been corrected and the editor/host who made the mistake has been wiped and reassigned.
