Westworld’s history is repeating itself, a painful reminder that there is no denying a past that continues to reverberate into the present.
Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 2 of Westworld.At the risk of jinxing it or causing a new timeline where it falls back into its own worst tendencies, it is quite a pleasant surprise to report that the fourth season of Westworld is off to a promising start. After the misstep of the third season, the show’s writers made the smart call to make a time jump seven years into the future and free themselves up to take the story in new directions.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY In the show’s strong second episode, fittingly titled "Well Enough Alone," we were taken on a bit of a stroll down memory lane. This came with an abundance of visual callbacks to the first season where characters first entered the park. It is most intriguing where the narrative and thematic developments that show the past is not so easily forgotten.
These moments, bound up in the iconography of the series, are both grim and goofy. Even though it is a front, the fact that people are still willing to go back to a park that is an ethical minefield that led to mass death the last time around paints a bleak picture. It also allows the show to poke fun at itself, giving characters moments to acknowledge the absurdity of it all.
That they have been now dragged back into the fight, one they would rather not have to take part in, gives the show deeper emotional stakes as we see that they have something to lose. They have had a chance to live their lives without all of this chaos constantly crashing down on them. Now, they have been thrust right back into the violence that threatens to consume the world once more. Thankfully, this isn’t just a retread of the show itself.
The question now is whether the narrative and the characters will be able to shake off the weight of the past. This has been Caleb’s greatest fear, and he has brought it up multiple times in conversations with Maeve. Their conversations, while often brief, capture the crisis that they’re both going through.
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