No thanks, after how absolute crap you made season 3 of this I’ll just be waiting for some kind of ‘highlights’ package for this whole season, or just watch the last 5 mins of final episode and presumably have missed nothing at all if season 3 taught me anything.
Good job, ‘writers’, you know what you did.
Way better than season 3, and possibly better than season 2 during some moments but the first is absolutely still the peak of this show. I hope they get to wrap things up in season 5 but overall I think this season was solid!
Disappointing. The writing in season 4 was phoned in, but the stellar acting keeps the show watchable. I like many think season 3 was a perfect ending to the show, but they just couldn't resist the temptation to cash in on success of the previous seasons.
This was a really intruguing season as far as Westworld is concerned. Cool twists and revelations.
Idk why there’s a season 4 but it’s fun so who cares
They need to bring back Anthony Hopkins and save this show from its failure in Season 3
Oh lord...it started out better than season 3? I guess? But, it quickly fell apart and that low bar fell even lower. I just didn't even know what was going on anymore and it just made me sad
Did they have to make the final season so totally and completely unenjoyable? What a sad ending.
What can you do when everyone starts to hate your formerly critically acclaimed show? Obviously, you can bring back old characters and situations and try again. After the third season failed at trying out something different, this fourth season feels more like a return to form handled by different writers. Fans are not missing the convoluted storylines and cheap tricks, let alone the parks. They are missing fine writing and relatable characters. This season is even more contrived and utterly pretentious than the previous, and eventually just limits itself to reset the status quo and bring characters back alive for the umpteenth time so that they can wrestle some more. Their motives keep changing to the point it feels like they purposely want to row against logic.
The only moment it felt like being back to the original mood of the show was with the twist and change of perspective in the middle of the season…. which didn’t lead to anything anyway. The ending has to be one of the most ridiculous things ever, as if nothing up to this point meant anything. Now that the show got canceled, I dare to say that the first season’s open ending worked as a better closure. Most answers have been already answered by then anyway.
Westworld season 4 is a huge return to form, as the puzzly nature of the early seasons returns a bit and the thematic inversions of the host/human relationship deepen. It doesn't quite rise to the heights of the first 2 seasons, as the plot tries to juggle a lot of characters and doesn't hit the emotional beats cleanly. Bernard's storyline and the broader struggle between hosts is the most engaging part of the season, as it presents the most thematic depth of the season in exploring the morality of Hale's world and the philosophy of what a better world means. We spend a ton of time with Caleb, and while we care about him a bit and he is the prime example of human experience, I think his emotional stakes were overplayed. Christina is fine but the puzzle of what's going on with her is far less exciting than the showrunners think and than Bernard's plan, though I like Christina's ending. This season is far more propulsive than season 3, and the big midseason reveal of what has happened in the world is wild. It has its ups and downs, but it's still high production value and creative high concept sci-fi that's well worth watching.
As a whole this is better than season 3 which deflated spectacularly after promising start, but I can't quite pinpoint why it comes off like fan-fiction to me throughout. Maybe because the less focus on world-building details than other seasons? It makes the new status-quo just doesn't seem very fleshed out, which even season 3 has more of (even if the story insides it limps to the end). Only really loved the rug-pull twist of that mid-season episode, though I did enjoy them giving Charlotte more focus and Tessa Thompson dives into that villainy so deliciously.
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It makes me sad to think just how amazing season 1 was from start to finish, only for every other season of the show to be just okay or even bad at times.