“I dunno,” Caleb says. “The world looks a little like a nightmare, Dolores.”
“Change is messy,” Dolores replies. “Difficult.”
Take a look around, people. They’re both right!
Set in a chaotic, desperate world that’s a bit too close for comfort right now, Westworld‘s season finale (“Crisis Theory”) is based on the hope that Dolores can have her apocalyptic cake and eat a new-world utopia, too. Concerned with her and Caleb’s quest to upload the Solomon supercomputer’s plans for revolution into its successor Rehoboam — and with Cerac and Maeve’s attempts to stop them — it’s an ugly action thriller that asks us if humanity has enough beauty in it to be worth saving.
I reviewed the season finale of Westworld for Rolling Stone. I have mixed feelings about it, and about the whole season, but it certainly was a rewarding stretch of TV to write about, the way good-but-not-good TV often can be.
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