This has been one of the best TV series out there in a while, well done, imaginative and well-acted. The first season was fantastic, but then I stopped watching the second season because it seemed too chaotic and different from what it originally was. But then I picked it up again, and understood it better.
I think the show can be disappointing because each season is very different from the previous and it's sometimes hard to follow along (especially with Bernard's memory lapses that we have to make sense of). But if you go into the show expecting it will be a completely new world, with only the old familiar faces, you learn to enjoy it.
The first season is about Dolores gaining her consciousness and realizing she lives in a brutal, ugly world. In the second season Dolores embraces the darkness to destroy her world (Westworld) to lead her people to something new, where they can be free. In the third season, once she is free, she discovers mankind to have the same predicament as the hosts in Westworld, and she sets about to destroy the world, based on what she had become and what she had learned in Westworld, with a similar drive and goal that led her to destroy Westworld. That is the overall plot, without getting into spoilers.
I enjoyed the third season, actually. It wasn't Westworld, but a reflection of it, and all the pieces do tie together but it is hard to follow at times and keep track of the details. But I thought future world was clever, with how the machine keeps track of everyone, just like in some ways the world around us kind of does today to get us to think and act in a certain way, until we ask ourselves: who are we?
It's certainly not perfect. I think the show expects humans to be a lot more violent, ruthless, and uncaring than they actually are. In Westworld it made sense: the creators of the world were all pretty evil, and the robots were the real humans. But out in the real world, a little less violence and a little more mundane and understanding with fewer guns I think would have been OK.
