Westworld starts season 4 with a surprisingly coherent episode
The show's refreshing return feels like a ramp-up to bloodier stuff
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Westworld is a show about storytelling. Throughout its first three seasons, creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have made clear they are fascinated by the way narratives rule our world: Concepts like free will and agency are, in the show’s cosmology, intimately tied to the stories we tell ourselves and the characters we allow ourselves to be. If such simple tenets have become muddled over its three-season run, it is because the HBO show has always been a tad more ambitious about the convoluted storytelling it expects its audience to follow. (Seriously, ask me in earnest to walk you through season three and you’ll find me fumbling even as I enjoyed parts of it.)
Which is to say, it was refreshing to watch this first episode of season four and be in almost familiar territory. Sure, I wouldn’t have pegged Westworld to flash-forward seven years since “the riots” that closed out its most recent season finale—or even imagine that it would open with a bilingual set-piece where William (yes, Ed Harris, back again as the man formerly known as the Man in Black) brings a cartel to its knees with the help of…I want to say fly-hosts? But once that prologue was done with, I was back in the kind of Westworld world I most enjoy: namely, following Evan Rachel Wood as she tried to decipher what it is her character (this time: Christina—unclear where Dolores is nowadays) wants from her life as she ponders the pleasures and perils of writing and living in certain stories. Oh, and she fears she’s being watched. (Trust the show to keep its meta-ness going; not only are we in the realm of storytelling but in the realm of broadcasting. Every performed story requires an audience, after all.)
The callback to season one, where we followed Dolores’ waking moments and experienced her continued narrative loops, was a welcome one. And a reminder that maybe Christina’s world could be just as constructed as that small Western town Dolores lived in.
One thing that struck me about this episode was—how to put it lightly?—how coherent it was. Westworld has probably spoiled us in thinking each and every one of its narratives is a Rubiks cube of a puzzle, often encouraging us to discern (or get lost) in various competing timelines. Not so here. William, Christina, Caleb, and Maeve may all be scattered but it seems we’re all in the same timeline (give or take Christina? Okay…maybe there may be some red-yarn-wall conspiracy artwork in our futures to help us figure all of it out).
But for a reintroduction to these characters, the subdued, almost studied way in which we were reacquainted with them all was surprisingly refreshing: sure, we may not know who Christina is (though let’s hope we get more of her roommate, played by Academy Award-winner Ariana DeBose), but watching Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) go feral in the snow-capped mountains as she’s hunted by William’s men, and later seeing Caleb (Aaron Paul, arguably a character that still feels a tad out of step with our other leads) coping with his newfound life as a family man felt like a slow ramp-up to bloodier stuff. A calm before the storm, perhaps.
There is, of course, that pesky guy who keeps harassing Christina, who believes the stories she’s writing are somehow having real-world effects—or effects in whatever world she and he are in. Just as in seasons past, it sounds like who tells whose stories and who controls our own narratives (“I want to write a new story,” Christina tells herself) will continue to be the guiding philosophical principle under which the violent delights that we’ve come to expect from Westworld will reside. We got a taste of it but there’s more to come, I’m sure.
The line that echoed for me throughout the episode and which strikes me as possibly giving us a hint of what’s to come is one Christina utters when trying to explain her work (oh god, I’m just realizing it’s because I so often find myself doing the same when I tell someone I’m a writer and then feel the need to buoy why I do this and why it matters!): “What if I’m not the one that’s broken, what if it’s the world that needs fixing?”
We’ve seen what happens when Dolores tries to fix a broken world. Might Christina be itching to follow in her footsteps? Or is that, perhaps, what William is after?
Stray observations
- Let’s talk about that final reveal. We all knew it was coming (James Marsden’s involvement had already been announced) but that doesn’t make it any less exciting. Not just because I am very ready to look at the actor’s beautiful face this entire season but because the Dolores/Teddy dynamic was the beating heart of season one—again, another callback I can get behind.
- The choice to use New York City’s High Line as backdrop for a confounding dystopian urban landscape that’s supposed to feel both green and sterile, catering to a population that seems to dope themselves to carry on and has no time for self-questioning moments that would threaten their livelihood? Almost too perfect.
- Speaking of: Does Westworld have some of the most enviable production design in cable television? I’ll admit I have a weakness for its brutal-meets-minimalist aesthetic, where its characters move through houses and bedrooms that feel inhospitable, so those first scenes were truly catnip for me. How Nathan Crowley (season one) and Howard Cummings (seasons two and three) lost their respective Emmys for their work on the show is beyond me. Here’s hoping Jonathan Carlos, taking over this time around, may have better luck next year!
- Thandiwe Newton can make any line sing, but hearing her go “Oh, for fuck’s sake” and later “Hello, darling” and make both feel instantly iconic is a true testament of the (Emmy-winning!) work she’s been doing as Maeve for four seasons and counting.
- Speaking of Maeve, we didn’t really dwell on what exactly she was doing when trying to access her old memories while out in her cabin in the middle of nowhere. What is she looking for? Who might she be looking for? And what might have prompted the desire to do so as it put her so at risk of being found?
- The maze makes its triumphant return! Thankfully it is now in some fire escape soil and not, you know, in some guy’s scalp (though there was some scalping; wouldn’t be Westworld without some of that).
- “This is America. Everything is for sale.” (I may have cringed at this line because, while its sentiment feels accurate, I also find it’s become increasingly played out, no?
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Much better than last season’s premiere, although I am a bit confused—didn’t ERW’s character die at the end of last season? Is this a copy in another ‘park’?
We don’t know if Christina’s a bot or the inspiration for Dolores. But Dolores as we knew her, is gone.
Hrm, maybe I’m not smart enough for this show. I didn’t even consider her being the inspiration for Dolores—-that she may have been the one who coded her backstory/personality for the park.Time to go watch some more Al Bundy, lol.
Considered the idea of her being the inspiration (or narrative creator) of Dolores, but the fact that Teddy (as he now very much seems to be) drew the Maze into the dirt on her balcony and we see her, in the trailer, later in in the tower with the hologram graphic of NY city, where we also see Charlotte/Dolores (and Caleb) definitely seems to place this post S1. Someone else suggested that this, might be the version of Dolores that was stored inside the memory ball that had it’s shield damaged in the last season. Corrupted files that are slowly being rebuilt. The use of the Maze by Teddy (and we see Bernard use it in the trailer) might indicate this is an attempt to ‘restore’ her. And, this may be way off, but it occurred to me that Maya’s make a choice ‘Black or White’…feels like something thrown up from Dolores’s memories. And that, that, along with the fact we’ve not actually seen Maya talk/interact with anyone bar Christina (conveniently disappearing from the bar at the end of the date when she was supposed to hang around), makes me wonder if we’re being ‘Beautiful Mind-ed’, and if Maya even exists beyond perhaps being an NPC Christina’s ‘created’.
Remember that when William first enters Westworld, he is given a choice between a white or black hat.
Dolores was originally created when Anthony Hopkins was a young man. Any real world inspiration for her would be a senior citizen in this current timeline. I think.
If she IS the inspiration…well, Dolores has been around longer than this young lady. maybe related to Dolores’ inspiration as a possibility??
I can’t imagine it would be the inspiration for Dolores since that would’ve happened ages ago at this point
I’m assuming William-bot is working for the Charlotte/Dolores hybrid?
The previews certainly make it look that way. Of course they also make it seem as if there are multiple Williams
I suspect one of those is real william
I think William is now a resurrected human mind in a host body. Charlotte and William-bot are doing the same thing to him that he did to his father-in-law—keep bringing him back so they can enjoy watching him lose his mind over, and over, and over again.
There’s a tab for thinking that the world is the problem, not you? I’d take one of those right now.
looking at that GIF, I’m reminded that Constanza is one dude that who would benefit from responding to commands like“Cognition only. Limit your emotional affect, please!”
He’s beboppin’ and scattin’ and I’M LOSING IT!
Just because the world is the problem doesn’t mean that you are not also a problem.
I know you’re probably joking, but I wholeheartedly disagree. The world IS broken and we shouldn’t close our eyes to that.
Oh, I don’t mean all the time. Just for like, an afternoon. I’d like an afternoon of that feeling.
Oh, I don’t mean all the time. Just for like, an afternoon. I’d like an afternoon of that feeling.I mean…there absolutely is a tab for that though lol.Just, you know, make sure you get a babysitter for yourself, just in case you go the other way with it lol.
Woof, well that was still awful.
I have very conflicting feelings about this show, but I don’t think I can watch it anymore after last season. The dialogue, acting, and visuals are all so top notch it’s hard not to be intrigued. I just don’t think they’ve really told a coherent story in any season, and it’s only gotten more convoluted as they go. I think the need to subvert expectations has shot this show in it’s own foot so many times across three seasons because if they could just commit to telling a compelling story it’d be an interesting show, instead of shrouding everything in meaningless mystery that builds to an (underwhelming) twist at the end of each season.
yea last season was horrendous and I hate that this post is tempting me to stick with it. I wish it was canceled last season, give these production resources to something better.
Like what? More Downton Abbey? You could say the same about Stranger Things, which somehow managed to get a bigger budget than all other shows.
I agree and can’t say it better. Except I would add that this show occasionally reaches something like greatness in individual episodes. Like the one where Williams father in law was in that loop in season 2. Season 1 was overall pretty good but somehow less than the sum of its parts. I can’t say I really liked any episodes of season 3 though. I am going to watch season 4 but with lowered expectations. I am just anticipating a pretty-looking show that occasionally makes you think. And overall I am ok with that.
I think this is the right mindset to go into this season. The episode in season 2 with Maeve’s backstory and how it’s tied to the native warrior was probably the series highlight for me. Unfortunately they completely botched it next episode by making her daughter not actually her daughter and giving her a new mother, overly complicating a powerful emotional moment in a series with very very few of them. I can appreciate a show that wants to portray the complex morality of life and not let characters get what they want (like the Starks getting punished for being ‘good’ people for the entirety of GoT), but you got to balance that out occasionally in my opinion.
I’m in the same boat. I think season 1 was fantastic. It could’ve been an amazing standalone mini-series. Then season 2, kinda sorta, engaged with the premise that it setup, but didn’t really, and it just kept piling on more stuff that didn’t fit into any of narrative “rules” that had already been established. It suddenly introduces these brain boxes. It had already established that hosts are nearly indestructible. Armistice rips her own arm off and smiles because Maeve turned off her pain responses (but oddly didn’t for her own). Yet other “awoken” hosts get “killed” by gunshots, including main characters. So you end season 2 with the concept that hosts are nearly unkillable, and the threat would be that humanity has made artificial humans that are actually humans, but are way more powerful than them. That just goes by the wayside though, and instead we get Paul’s horrible wig. I seriously don’t understand that wig.
I was happy with the premiere: no attempt to revisit the convolutions of Season 3 but instead it seemed like a soft landing back. And what fan isn’t glad to luxuriate in the stunning cinematography, the familiar score, the foreword looking set designs and c’mon Maeve with a katana sword. All the boxes checked
Good for you for at least trying to pretend this is at all the same show as season one.
The maze makes its triumphant return! Thankfully it is now in some fire escape soil and not, you know, in some guy’s scalp
It actually returned way before that…I believe those cartel’s servers are hosting The Sublime. A clue for that is the stylized drawing of The Maze, in the ground outside the entrance elevator (you can see it when the Cartel guy and William are leaving the plant after touring it). I think that’s where Dolores had sent/hide it at the end of season 2. Charlotte/Dolores found out, and sent William to get it.
As for who Christine really is, maybe I’m misremembering it, but there’s not one unnacounted copy of Dolores, from the cores Charlotte/Dolores brought to the real world from the park in the end of season 2? I remember that I counted the number of cores, compared with the Dolores’ copies displayed in the show later, and there was one not shown so far. Am I wrong?As for why Charlotte has gone after Maeve and Caleb, I believe she’s getting to her endgame, and want to eliminate loose ends. It doesn’t matter that both seem to just want to be left in peace, Charlotte doesn’t want to risk anything, and Caleb and Maeve knows too much. On top of that, Maeve has too much power. Both are dangerous wildcards for Charlotte’s plans.Finally, I really loved that instrumental version of Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games” at the end.
P.S.: would some kind soul rescue me from the greys?
Well there was the copy of Dolores that was in Lawrence, who gave Bernard access to the Sublime, they’re still knocking around. Plus there was one memory core with shield damage in Ep 5 of last season…that, conceivably, could be the one in play. If it was corrupted, then this could be an attempt by Hale to rebuild it/her to trick her into un-encrypting the data and giving them access to the Sublime. Of course, restoring that Dolores would, by default, be massively risky to them.
You didn’t mention a theory about what Charlotte’s endgame is. iirc, her whole deal is revenge for enslavement against humans, I think? My guess is she’s the one who developed the fly-hosts. Those provide a way for robots to enslave the humans in the way hosts were enslaved.
From what I can recall, the good hosts just want to live freely and the bad hosts want revenge? That’s the big distinction I think?
Same here. This happens every time we get a new reviewer. A couple of months ago I even wrote the editor and at least got some traction. But I still notice I’m pretty much ignored by the new writers. It really takes the fun out of discussing a favorite show when there’s not discussion.
It seems to me that “Christina” is in a virtual world running in the Hoover Dam datacenter, and that this is also where the Hosts and possibly a chunk of Guest data were sent at the end of Season 2. (William says it was 8 years ago that what he wants there was stolen from him). Christina is a piece of Dolores that was also uploaded and she’s writing the narrative of the world to keep the minds from degrading.Some of the NPCs are the Guest data and they’re having psychotic breaks because they’re being forced to do things against their nature by Christina’s narrative.
Good theory. The timeline is right. The key to the Sublime was in Dolores memory, and we do see the Door to the Sublime opened again right by Hoover Dam. Whether ‘Teddy’ is a construct designed to help unlock that part of her so Charlotte/William can get access to it again, or if he is actively back from the Sublime (with Bernard) to help restore her, and end the threat to it, then comes into question.
That’s what I thought as well. That would totally explain why Teddy is there, since Delores uploaded him to the Valley Beyond at the end of Season 2. It also explains why Charlotte and Host William want all that data locked away forever.
I like this theory. It makes sense given that Christina’s storyline seems like the odd one out, and it’s clear there are weird things going on that point to it being simulated (the return of Teddy, the people thinking she’s writing their narrative, the guys she passes who act like they’re in a theme park).
hmm…you said “Christina’s World” in your review. That’s a painting by Andrew Wyeth.
It’s subject is an IRL girl with polio in rural Maine with a strong focus on what looks like getting to her house across a vast field.
Quoth the artist on the work: “[the purpose of the art] was to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless.”
Yes, it’s late, and yes, I’m getting loopy but…maybe not??
Got a better feeling about this one coming out of the premiere than I did going in, even though the further we get from the park the less interesting it seems to get. Seems like they’re hinting at it all coming back around to it so hopefully they learned their lesson from last season
My first guess is that Delores uploaded into The Cloud after “dying” last season and gave herself a new life to live. I forget what the show called it at the end of Season Two – Bot-Heaven or The Matrix or wherever Teddy and Akecheta went to live. That’s cool. I can dig a plot where Evil William-Bot is trying to capture all the Westworld souls from seasons one and two. That’s relatively straight forward. The shell-game of who’s in whose body is a bit much. The difference between Delores and Maeve and the other bots with super-strength versus the humans who have been “patterned” and had their entire lives controlled and who (frankly) like screwing the bots – if they’re rich enough… is also a bit much. Both flavors of sentient beings are so close to one another that there’s not much suspense anymore as to whether or not they will merge. Has anyone had a Blade Runner-baby yet? I forget. My memory files are degrading. That would make the third sentient flavor the humans who have been patterned so much (William, James Delos … Ford?) that now that their physical bodies are actually worm-food, their souls have been captured and been loaded into various Hell-scape repeat-loop programs… they REALLY are a bit much. Though if Katja Herbers is torturing me on repeat in Hell, I might argue that’s Heaven. Get KH back on the show! Anthony Hopkins is still looking pretty good too.Hey! Maybe William-Bot is trying to release his trapped soul. Or keep his real soul in captivity. Maybe that’s who he’s talking to the trailer. That would be a good twist. I hope I called it.Ooh, I just had a wish/fantasy/hope that Planet of the Apes would charge in and smash everything back into fine, glittery, silica: Season 5 – there we go.
If this is a life Dolores gave herself then like why is the show still happening? Wasn’t this the whole goal, the hosts were trying to escape Westworld so that they could just live life freely. What is this show even about now?
It’s about whatever the fuck Ed Harris is doing. But I don’t even know what year he’s in or if he’s now a robot or what the fuck
(this time: Christina—unclear where Dolores is nowadays)My initial thought is that William and Hale are running simulations of Dolores, trying to learn something about her so they can crack the encryption on the Host data sitting inside the dam data center. But who knows? Definitely think there’s going to be something fishy about the “flash forward seven years” thing.
I really don’t want to finish watching the rest of season 3 to catch up. I thought the online criticism wouldn’t be stuff that would bother me, but boy what I saw was hard to get through.
I found a coherent summary of season 3 on Polygon that helped immensely. Some of it didn’t make sense, but it was helpful.
I just watched a recap of season 3 from Man of Recaps on YouTube, and that helped bridge the gap for me.
The only thing good in season 3 was Marshawn Lynch’s mood shirt.
I hope he pops up again this season.
Life pro tip: stay offline, especially entertainment reviews.
Westworld starts season 4 with a surprisingly coherent episodeYeah, didn’t last season also start with a surprisingly coherent episode? I’ve learned that’s no guarantee disappointment won’t set in by mid-season, once again …
Every season this show starts out coherent and then goes to garbage. Y’all are living AA’s definition of insanity if you think it’s going to be any different this season.
Maeve is looking at the headless guy’s memories to find out who sent him.I am ok with complicated story telling where not everything is explained or obvious. It’s a story not a puzzle. An old boomer saying – ”When you don’t know the words just hum along to the tune.”
If you’re commenting on the bullet point in the Stray Observations, I’m pretty sure Manuel is trying to puzzle out what Maeve was doing when she triggered the blackout towards the start of the episode, not the later brain-skimming segment.
That whole video game plot felt a bit too close to The Matrix: Resurrections, and I’m not sure how much more mileage the show is going to get out of doing more “the character is actually a host!!!” epiphanies. I’m crossing my fingers that they have more in mind than that…and go somewhere further with the maze than just having it be a metaphor.
Ha! I just made the same comparison in my comment. Both felt like pale rehashes by writers whose good ideas ran out with with originals.Apart from the “our protagonist is now an uneasy-with-the-world gamer”, there’s also that scene with nuDolores walking home, I half-expected her to see the same black cat twice by those lights. And when her date was saying we have a tab for this, and a tab for that too – he may as well have stuck out his hands with two differently coloured pills …
I really don’t like the “protagonist is casually also a video game designer” thing that keeps popping up in TV and film that aren’t about video games. Firstly it’s a pretty competitive field but secondly it reads kinda like that Che character being a stand-up comic on And Just Like That but not actually being good.
For example: Natasha Lyonne’s character being a video game designer on Russian Doll. We actually see them playing the game for a split second in season one and it…. looks like an absolute shit video game. And were supposed to believe it was Game of the Year or some shit when it came out? Enough with the game designer protagonists unless the show is going to take video game design seriously.
Like is “author of NPC dialogue” in a video game even a job? WTF is that? Why did she have some editor getting mad at her for what amounts to background noise? Like come the fuck on.
Where are all the actual video game designers in the comments here? I’ve yet to see anyone who is a professional in that industry pulling out hairs over this but I have to assume they’re out there somewhere..
I’ve been working as a software engineer in game- or game-adjacent industries for most of my career, and that includes doing some writing. I agree that the way game devs are depicted is usually pretty dumb (Free Guy really took the cake on that one). It doesn’t bother me that much, mostly because, you know, it’s fiction, and I don’t think the depiction is going to cause serious sociological problems.*I think it’s useful to compare it to how cops and doctors are depicted. Those professions have literally been around for millennia, while modern game dev as a profession is 40 years old if you squint real hard (and things have changed a lot since the early days). The kinds of things cops and doctors did a century ago aren’t all that different, and that knowledge (or at least popular depictions of it) had already had a lot of time to seep into the culture by the time we were making movies and, later, TV.And even though what cops and doctors are depicted as doing is usually much more dramatic and exciting than their real work, what’s shown are usually at least plausible variations. Yeah, maybe the cops on Law & Order chase perps down alleys way more often than any real cop ever would, but it’s plausible as a distilled essence of what they do. By comparison, there is almost nothing you could depict a game dev doing (as part of their job) that would seem plausibly dramatic. Usually the only time dramatic things happen is when everything is going horribly wrong (database is down, logging isn’t working, nobody has any idea what’s going on) and the solution is for several devs to be staring at their computers and typing and occasionally swearing.This isn’t to say that they couldn’t be doing a better job at making game devs’ depictions more accurate (especially in a case like this, where the drama isn’t emanating from her job itself, that’s just background). If she’s a writer, then she should be in a meeting with a half dozen other writers who are all pitching ideas and bitching about how the EP keeps changing their mind about the direction of the game.
*Fiction has no obligation to be accurate to the world, but then we have a problem where most of the “knowledge” people absorb about the world (history, the way professions like cops & doctors work, etc.) comes from pop culture. If you ask someone if L&O is accurate, they’ll say, well, no, of course not, it’s just a TV show; but then they’ll turn right around and argue that we need more cops (even when the evidence shows the exact opposite), because they’ve internalized the idea that cops are good guys who stop crime, because they’ve watched hundreds or thousands of hours of TV shows depicting that and had very little exposure to opposing ideas. I do not know of a solution to this problem.
I used to be an author of NPC dialogue but then I took an arrow to the knee
And if that wasn’t enough, just to really make sure the message gets through we get an instrumental piano cover of Lana Del Rey’s ‘Video Games’ to play us out….
Yeah it reminded me of The Matrix: Resurrections too and I HATED that movie, and actually to go a step further, I hated the entire videogame plotline.
The Matrix: Resurrections is the worst film I’ve seen this year. The film “Men” starring Jessie Buckley on the other hand, is my favourite.
The character is a host is, unfortunately, the only real thing to hang the show on at this point. I watched Seasons 1-3 just a few weeks back. All compressed together, that aspect as well as “there can be multiples of the same host” seem to be the only–dare I say–twist, that feels simultaneously inevitable and lazy.
I guess we should be hopeful that this whole thing isn’t part of a separate multiverse.
Westworld needs more Maeve, just make it the Maeve show, she is by far the best character.
Strongly co-sign.
A pretty good opener, though I could not tell you honestly that I recognized Caleb as still actually being Aaron Paul. Otherwise, my only real complaint is that we didn’t get any screentime with Bernard.
Am I missing something?Here in the UK we get episodes a day later than the US – so by the time I watched this premiere last night I’d already seen this AV Club review heading (describing the episode as ‘coherent’) and the comments (majority of which compare this favourably to the last season).
I thought this episode was ABSOLUTE RUBBISH! And I actually *liked* the Season 3 premiere with Dolores being a badass out in the real world (made me wonder what an Ex Machina sequel would be like). I thought this premiere was horrendous by comparison, and definitely not ‘coherent’!This iteration has her/Christina as a GAME developer?!? This was reminiscent of Neo-as-game-developer in this year’s Matrix movie – except worse. Similar to the new Matrix, it really did feel like a cash-grab sequel of previous seasons, done decades later by writers out of ideas. I rolled my eyes hard at James Marsden at the end, and thought to myself “I’m out! I’ll wait till this whole mess of a season is done and then I’ll (attempt to) binge the whole thing one lazy Sunday in winter – and that’s only because Thandiwe Newton is still in this! I’ve mentioned this before but I’d rather watch a spin-off with her and Felix and Sylvester playing house)And by the way, one final note – Aaron Paul’s hair was an abomination, and made me angry every time it was on display on screen.
Yeah no I didn’t like this episode either it’s still shit. I think people are just trying to will the show back to what it once was while its still too early to tell.
Random question – I don’t know if its been mentioned already in this review/comments (and I’ve somehow missed it) but,when Aaron Paul was leaving his home to join Maeve, one of the guys he was leaving to guard his family appeared to be the baddie-mchottie-with-neck-tattoo from Good GirlsDoes anyone know if that was just meant to be an uncredited non-speaking cameo (maybe he just happened to be on set that day?) or has it been confirmed that he has an active role this season. I know he’s not A-list but it’d still be surprising for him to go from that prominent Good Girls role to a bit part in Westworld, right?
You said “Christina’s world” … nice.
“who believes the stories she’s writing are somehow having real-world effects—or effects in whatever world she and he are in”I thought he was upset because she was using his life details from Rehoboam or something? Is that what is happening? But how do the people know she is the one writing the plot lines OR how she got their life details?
That whole bit about Aaron Paul’s daughter getting into his gun stash and sneaking his gun….. maybe after the Texas shooting they should stop making scenes like that in american television, just a suggestion.
Except she didn’t. The one she had was a bb gun and it was hers.
The only reason I’ve stuck with this show is because Newton, Woods and Harris can somehow make any scene they’re in compelling. From mid season 2 on though, it feels more and more like an okay sci-fi anthology series that happens to have a lot of the same characters in it.
Ed Harris is fucking mesmerizing every moment he’s onscreen
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