User Reviews

Twists and turns at every corner! A simulation with in a simulation! Thandie friggin Newton! Welcome back Westworld!

This episode focused on two of Westworld's best characters : Maeve and Bernard. The opening sequence was crazy, maybe one of the best in the entire series and Hector's comeback was powerful. I also really liked how they integrated Lee Sizemore and Ashley Stubbs in that one, helping the protagonists in their respective quests.

The showrunners really know what they're doing developing these little twists. The main ideas of the episode were simple, but effective : Maeve trying to escape, as Bernard is trying to find her. Direction was amazing, the music even more. The two combined procured an engaging motion effect.

Despite being extra clever throughout the entire episode, Maeve ends up in a predicament in the end and the showrunners know how to bring the audience at this very point masterfully. I also liked how Maeve was brought from Warworld to another world, only to discover this current world is being filled with war itself.

Trouble isn't over yet ! Setting up an exciting season with Dolores, Caleb, Maeve, Bernard and co.

I was really amazed by this episode. One of my favourites for sure.

It's an impossible equation, and if you want your calculator to divide by zero error, punch it in and watch what happens. That's part of the premise of this episode, which returns us to Westworld, excuse me Naziworld. Or actually French resistance world. We know that BernArnold was going to go back to Westworld, this episode gives us a clear picture on what reentry into the Park would look like. At least if you are going to sneak back and go to the old cabin where Ford had you kill Theresa. And where all of your previous host bodies are stored...

Including one host that we discover is a host that we never knew was a host, but we suspected it from the last episode of season two, as Dolores was using a host shaped like Charlotte Hale to escape, while smuggling out about five or six other host control units. Some of the people who worked at Westworld have cameos in this episode...

And of course Maeve is in the new "war world", which actually doesn't exist, or does it? So when you are trying to figure out what is real or not, that's when you punch in "The square root of -1" to bug up the works. Sidenote: "the square root of negative one" refers to imaginary numbers used in rectangular to polar coordinate conversions, which are basically used in electronics to design crossover filters for speaker cabinets, but it can be used for many other things. It's basically a way to represent an electronica circuit on an XY axis where there are both negative and positive numbers. Isn't that fun? (actually, it is...)

This whole episode is a conundrum. This is why I loved season two, but the level of insanity has been trebled in season three. Meanwhile, Rehoboam is keeping tabs on anomalies in the world, and guess where this episode's anomaly occurs? We get a possible physical location of where Westworld is. I wonder if I could look it up on Google earth? I'm not even finished watching the episode, I had to stop and react. This is why Maeve has always been my favorite host. And she gets to reconnect with Lee Sizemore, of a sort. More to come, maybe...

Look for a reference to Game of Thrones, a big reference, although not as big as it was in the last episode of that series....

This show has proven to be at the level of storytelling similar to Game of Thrones and True Detective, in that it is about the quality of writing that make the show worthy of watching, as well as the characters (ignore final season of Game of Thrones). This episode was uncharacteristic of the previous episode, which was phenomenally done and proved to me the show has not lost momentum. However, The Winter Line was weak and the writing was lazy and it was an upsetting watch. I kept cringing during some scenes, especially the fight choreography between Stubbs and the men trying to kill Bernard (he is beating up one guy who shot him but the other bad guy, who has a gun mind you, does not shoot his weapon at him and keeps hesitating and then gets beat up himself...like he didn't know what to do). Then he comes across more bad guys with guns with simply a battle axe and they don't think to shoot him. So cringe and I can't get it out of my head. The series better not be heading down the road of handing work to whoever, especially those unfaithful to the powerful writing and direction of the show b/c this episode was a mistake. It played off like some silly little romance novel with a bit of espionage. And what was up with that Game of Thrones reference? Please don't sacrifice the quality of this show for something as stupid as a reference.

As a young adolescence, it seems to me the first episode is more interesting and futuristic than this one. But I have to say watching through Mave's attempts to figure out the truth, makes this episode far more complex than the previous one. I can tell the reappearace of Game of Thorne in parts of this episode, the dragon in the park. It seems to be that this episode leads to similar story line like Game of Thrones. Hope they will not make any mistake like they did on the last season of Game of Throne.

I loved the cameo of Benioff, Weiss and Drogon!!!! Seeing Drogon made my heart drop! :'(

Anyways, I love how this season has started off! I am not really sure why there were so many haters on episode 1.

Season 1 was great. Season 2 thought itself as smart and was a mess. Season 3 looks like a worse version of the 2nd. Continuation of Mary Sues, "smart" storylines wich don't make sense and departing from the characters' arch. Because if you're left with Hosts, your characters can't have heart, can they? They are perfect, and when not it's to convenience of the plot, you can get attached to characters that can't really die.

The nail in the coffin was the Dumb & Dumber scene. It was the middle finger from HBO to the viewers, and it was cringe to watch. I'm so happy I've never paid an HBO subscription and I download its content instead. It's not illegal in my country so it's OK, I'm subverting their expectations, aM i NoT?

I find the story more interesting outside the park, but it is always a pleasure to have Thandie Newton on my screen. The f/x during the shootout in the square was remarkable. I was invested in the droid Maeve chose to liberate her. I like how she struggled to get up the hill. Ciroc's home was stunning. He chose to dress Maeve in White. I liked his comment calling humanity a band of thugs stumbling from catastrophe to catastrophe. It pained me to see Maeve under someone else's control again.