Ростік Кауфман

Swerve swerve swerve. I can't say I'm surprised, it's what Westworld is known for however this felt less organic then before and more like we were intentionally lead down the wrong path just to have the big revelation in the end that we were wrong. Problem is none of it was surprising or inspiring, it didn't make you go "oh what???" like in season 1 when we found out William was the man in black, it just made you go oh whatever...

Maeve switched sides, saw that coming. Dolores wanted to save humanity now? Please... There's a man in black robot? Already knew that, don't care what comes from it. Don't believe Dolores is really dead, don't care if she isn't, don't believe William is either, don't care if he isn't. William didn't end up saving anything, Hale is a bitch again. The only real emotional part of the episode was seeing Bernard visit Arnold's family and that still wasn't even that spectacular. Bernard has the key... to what exactly? Everyone got their catch phrase in. This episode just showed the show's gone on too long and the story is all over the place. To think it's going to keep going feels more like a chore then something to be excited for. With any mercy they end this thing with a 3 or 4 episode arch in season 4 and be done with it.

Alas Westworld, this pain is all I have left of you.

Season 2 is worse than season 1. The only positive thing to mention is that they throw more money at it so that some scenes on the pitch were a bit more believable (players and crowds still are not credible) but overall it's worse. Season 1 was at least a promise that this show could evolve, but it became clear that this is neither a well-told drama, nor a credible show about sports (let alone soccer in particular), nor is it exceptionally funny - it even lost his charming, heart-warming Kitsch appeal that made it enjoyable but shallow in the first place! None of the issues I had with the first season were eliminated. Did the producers watch the first season? We need more depth and more complex jokes (thus better writers) and we wanted to see more of the most enjoyable comedy talents (the women and the cute greyhound) - instead they wasted time on rather boring characters. Some episode in the middle of the season were a waste of time. Episode 4 was an insult, episode 3 maybe the best (the women and girls save the day again!) I watched this second season cause the previous season was promising despite it's overall mediocrity - I'm not so sure I'll watch the next season. I said it before, I say it again: that's the innocuous show Apple+ deserves.

THE CORD
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Romero.
Why do you turn your back on an insane killer?
Romero got stupid in the Final season. :(

I'm dissapointed that the recordings of Chick weren't seen or mentioned again...
There was some great potential!
Now it's just a dead end...
And for that a senseless Storyline.

I was looking forward to the research of the police.
Just got little bit's of it in the Episode before (Which was truly great!) and the Final was just a 08/15 revenge Story...
Why?

There was stuff that didn't got touched, which could have made the Ending much better!

Caleb!
Bradley!

But that would have required a "Crime-Scene" Storyline!

And how can Norman come home?
Wouldn't there be police, because they normaly asume that Romero or Norman would come home!
Just saying.

Dylan apparently can only speak to Norman in the kitchen.
Not in another room where, let's just say, are no knifes?!
Or anything at all to get in trouble!

And what's up with the trend of killing of the Main Character in the Final?
I'm mean sometimes it fits.
But I would have loved it, if Norman ended up in a Clinic.
Why?
Because she wouldn't even harm a fly.

In spite of everything the callback to the First Episode (Which I alway like in a Final) and the Final Scene where Great.

The fight scene in the toyshop is the worst fight I've seen since my childhood.

He literally turned and held the knife to his own throat for about a second allowing the other character to grab his hand. Additionally the Nazis are portraied like pure monsters without any real world applicable intelligence.
Instead of trying to scheme their way out of a jam, they just kill everyone near them.

Thats just plain stupid - yes, real world Nazis did stuff like that, but they already had a tremendous amount of power and support by then.
Here it is the 70ies - thats when american companies refused to work with german companies because the CEOs had friends who died in the war.
The NASA Scientist in the gas chamber is a nice touch - although stupid, she could have easily survived breathing through the crack or using her not insignificant body-weight to break the glass.
I broke glass like that by accident when I was sick and fainted back when I was 14 and I was a lightweight.
She might still have died, but her efforts lack realism.

So far it looks like the show can't decide if it wants to be taken serious or not and hangs somewhere in the middle making it just look idiotic.
Sadly I'm a sucker for Nazis getting killed on TV, so I'll probably continue to watch anyway.

Regardless of what public perception might be, how Jeff described it, it’s easily a bottom 5 season (possibly lower).

The cast is a bunch of mildly likable people, sure. But outside of Carson did anyone actually play Survivor? Was there strategy in anything that happened? It was just a popularity contest at the end of the day. The game was injected with too many twists to even count and one(?) thing was correctly (Danny’s idol for Frannie, which he then wanted to vote her out immediately after, negating it being a good move). It was the same location, same challenges, generic numbering season, with no theme, no returnees. NOTHING happened all season. Heidi is awful. She consciously made bad choices all game. Carolyn was neurotic but did nothing. Lauren got a bad edit. The winner was fine, I guess.

Despite nothing happening, there was also no negatives (like Seasons 5 or 39). So it is marginally better than the worst seasons. But it’s bad for different reasons. It was quite simply bland. 41-42-43 steadily improved in “Survivor-ness”, 44 was a big step backwards. And unfortunately, 45 is the second season filmed in a row so it’s unlikely much changes in the current format next season.

Rating: 6.5/10