SummaryThe sci-fi western series from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy was inspired by the 1973 Michael Crichton film of the same name and is set at a Wild West theme park created by Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) with human-like androids where guests are encouraged to indulge their desires.
SummaryThe sci-fi western series from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy was inspired by the 1973 Michael Crichton film of the same name and is set at a Wild West theme park created by Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) with human-like androids where guests are encouraged to indulge their desires.
A visual treat packed with both moments of beauty as well as true horror. But while the narrative is less cohesive this season, with its core characters scattered to the winds, its capacity to fascinate us remains intact, especially as the themes which have always been lurking in the show become more present.
Another great season. Filming locations and set designs are excellent. You have to think a little with this show, but it's well worth it. All the actors are great, especially Thandiwe Newton. I love this show!
I thought the season was quite brilliant. Definitely had a few surprises. Acting was great, as always. And I enjoyed the inevitability of the story conclusion.
Beautiful, baffling, and bonkers. A welcome resurgence for Joy and Nolan’s box of violent delights, and one that firmly dispels any hint that Westworld might have gone south.
Led by strong work from Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, and Aaron Paul, the sleek visual aesthetic Westworld works with allows it to coast on its own cool weirdness whenever the plotting starts to chase its own tail.
Taken on their own, then, the first four episodes of “Westworld’s” fourth season are often fun, with spiky and interesting moments sprinkled amid other elements that feel like filler. As a serious fan of the show’s early going, I will settle for “often fun.” But it’s hard to imagine that “Westworld’s” two creators — writers who set out, thrillingly, to investigate what it means to be human and who now are losing us within the maze they keep complicating — can.
The fourth season of Westworld is business as usual. It’s two episodes of comically elongated resetting of the pieces on this futuristic chessboard, followed by two episodes in which some of the ideas are provocative or at least amusing.
After a catastrophically silly third season, the sci-fi series returns with yet another reset that shuffles characters in unexpected, uniformly boring directions.
Beautifully shot high budget sci fi nonsense that steps far beyond the intriguing mysteries of the original series and shows how little entertainment there is to be found in the answers to questions the show originally posed. Some cool moments in here for sure but the decisions made by a supposedly superior intelligence feel....poorly realised by the writing team.
This season had some good moments for sure, and it was very well shot, great score etc.
But it is of course a far cry off the first season and generally disappointing that this is where Westworld ended up.
Also, the subtlety of the story isn't there anymore. The deeper philosophical questions that were illustrated earlier seem to have been forgotten. In it's place is often violence and average dialogue between characters.
Still, i enjoyed it. It's just not up to the standard I've come to expect from a show like Westworld.
Just finished Season 4. To be honest, I remember absolutely nothing that happened in those 8 episodes. That’s how forgettable this season was. It was my hope that the show runners would reclaim their footing after a disastrous third season, but it seems they’ve decided to delve deeper into the same lifeless sci-if world that we all hated in Season 3. This show’s greatest mistake was leaving the robotic theme park that was “Westworld”, and moving the story into such a generic dystopian real world. I fell in love with this show because it was something new, mysterious, & sexy. But the moment that they moved on from Westworld, everything that I loved about the show was over and it became much less interesting to watch. Of course this season had plenty of the familiar Westworld plot twists, but it had none of the payoffs. It’s just plot twists for the sake of plot twists, time jumps for the sake of time jumps, and none of it adds any value to the story being told. It feels like the writers have no idea what they’re doing anymore and are just running us around in circles like a dog chasing its own tail. Don’t get me wrong, the acting & cinematography are phenomenal as always. But I’m completely lost on what is motivating these characters anymore. It’s a little hard to follow when they can suddenly become new characters entirely because PLOT TWIST! Trying to follow what’s happening in this show is just exhausting. It’s like trying to catch a fish with your bare hands. Just when you finally get a grasp on what’s happening, it ends up tasting like old trout.
What was that? This season makes no sense. You can easily watch season 3 and then season 5. But I'm not sure anyone would watch season 5 after a mess in season 4