Review: Westworld’s newest season is a much-needed upgrade.
’s Charlotte—once a human, then a robot implanted with a version of avenging hero Dolores’s consciousness. She’s since evolved into her own totalizing being, threatening her once human oppressors with crushing domination., is still in the picture as well, though she’s lost all memories of her crusade to liberate Westworld.
is more interested in echoing the lore of the past than was season three, which the show can do more nimbly now that its realignment is complete. These callbacks do, at times, serve as mere bitter reminders of the glory that once was. But otherwise they’re welcome bits of symmetry, smartly reconnecting us to the original existential struggle of the show.
The episodes I’ve seen take that paranoia and spin it into something robust and compelling. The writers try to pull off the same trick that they did in season two: confusing us with what looks like one timeline, but turns out to be at least a few. The deception is more obvious now, which might disappoint some theorists who love trying to puzzle things out. For the more casual viewer, though, season four is nicely decipherable after an hour or so of disorientation.
Complementing the show’s technical merits is the cast, all working in peak snarling, purring, quipping form. It’s good to see them all again. The initial cool shock ofhas passed, and now, six years since the show’s premiere, we can just settle in for more of the comfortably familiar. Albeit with a few new tweaks that approximate, ably enough, the thrill of true innovation.
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