best of the west

Many questions running through the season are answered, but their answers are traded for new questions about the larger implications of the plot reveals.

Like last episode, this episode of “Westworld” includes an abundance of exposition via flashback, specifically of one event: Juliet’s suicide.

This episode — the title of which is the Lakota word for “remember” — explains Akecheta’s backstory and the park’s opaque dynamics in a near-perfect set-up.

While this episode ramped up the action, it didn’t shy away from posing the philosophical questions “Westworld” is known for.

This episode of “Westworld” kicked off the second half of the season — from this point on, we can expect the plot arcs to finally come together.

However, it soon becomes apparent that as Westworld veers further and further from its recognizable form, Shogun World is more familiar than it seems.

In the wake of the hosts’ revolution, this season of “Westworld” consumes itself with exploring a different relationship between life and death.

In the first three episodes, there are already at least three different timelines and a number of disparate storylines and characters converging.