Westworld: The Well-Tempered Clavier (2016)
Season 1, Episode 9
8/10
The one before the last
11 December 2016
The show continues with its many story-lines, secrets within secrets and personalities and identities within identities. It just follows the topics introduced in previous episodes and sometimes falls into muddy-we-will-just-complicate-for-the-sake-of-it exposition style, but it is a very strong episode and the show keeps delivering.

Teddy discovers there is more in his past than he 'remembers', the Man In Black With A Hat just wants to keep playing his particular game and doesn't care if the world burns in flames if he is left alone, Dolores is trying to connect to her past, Maeve is working on 'its' robot-raising, and Bernard and Ford have a very interesting conversation.

The whole episode basically centers around Bernard and Ford's confrontation and it does a great job of piling surprises, twists, little moments and a quite strong dialogue. Of course, it helps if you have Wright and Hopkins delivering it. Jeffrey Wright is just doing an amazing work as Bernard, and, here, continues raising the bar.

The rest of the episode is really good too, but it just seems to be there to put the little details for the last episode's showdown and to tease the viewer with little secrets and details. The production, direction and acting keeps being top-notch all through.
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