Apart from the repetitive safe robbery inside new Westworld this episode was amazing and they finally explained why Bernard repeated what an agent said all the way back on season 2 after the massacre. Bernard had access to some of the future memories where he saw all these possibilities. Loved that there was a massacre section underground for visitors to play. And then the terryfying mind controlling sounds. Everytime the sound played it gave me scary goosebumps. There is some deeper meaning and correlations with the real world in this show and it scares the s out of me.
30 Reviews
Fully Enjoyable
cyrustiz11 July 2022
I enjoyed every moment of this episode. There were a couple of parts I could have done without; but I appreciate that they are part of the reasons I keep coming back for more. I'm intrigued by the new layers added to the Westworld experience and can't wait for the next episode; but I will, of course.
Excellent Return to Form
nebula002412 July 2022
Season 4 starts off a bit slow, but this episode is a true return to form. We are treated to some excellent story-telling, jumping right back into the core plot once again. I should also note, the sound effects for this - specifically the large computer array towards the end - are really good, and quite chilling to hear with headphones or any quality sound-system.
Westworld is back !!! Bring yourselves back online !!!!
pierreevans11 July 2022
This episode is a huge turning point and exemplifies why I fell in love with the show. Westworld is finally back to amazing storytelling again. This episode was suspenseful, thought provoking, well paced and left me wanting more. I know it's only the third episode but I hope this is the formula that will be used for the rest of the season and future seasons.
Here we go!
themassa-8170011 July 2022
Tense and intriguing!
cesarjaimesand11 July 2022
The first excellent episode in this season!
jaladalto11 July 2022
I loved every second of it, every minute of this episode. It was cleaver, interesting, with huge improvements (since we got 2 "meh" episodes before). I'm looking forward to see where the storyline goes! The acting and cinematography still the best thing about this show! Just amazing!
Westworld Is Back? Kinda...
MamadNobari9711 July 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This season keeps getting better, still nowhere near the brilliantness of season 1, but compared to episode 1 this was a really engaging episode.
I think the new plot with a certain familiar character,,, well his face is on this episode's page here so what the hell, the new plot with Bernard is certainly intriguing as he's one of the few remaining characters that are actually interesting anymore and have good plots. They didn't show anything from Delores in this episode because I guess they had even less materials than the boring uninteresting ones they showed in the last episode.
The plot with Caleb's wife and daughter, I wouldn't say it's boring or unnecessary, but it was definitely one that could've been wrapped in 5 minutes, but because the Maeve and Caleb plot had so much more to show and this daughter plot had to catch up to it, or rather wait for it to catch up, they dragged it and kept doing this fade to black cliffhangers that felt really awkward and amateurish. Although it has a decent tie-in with Caleb's plot line and makes the episode a little more intense and thrilling, and that makes me forgive them for dragging it, even though if you think about it, it would've made zero sense timeline-wise if it happened, unless they had portal guns or something. It was obvious what they were going for, but it doesn't make it any less engaging and intense, so it wasn't that bad.
The whole plot with Maeve and Caleb and reminiscing the past with some new twits was really nice and felt like we're actually watching Westworld again, although they could've played with that twist a little longer - even though it was obvious - and made it a little more mysterious and not just outright say what it is after 5 seconds.
Anyway, all in all, a good episode where all the plots were interesting enough, but nonetheless, minus the Maeve, the other two plots felt like dragging for no reason just to keep with the Maeve plot. I also wish that at the beginning they showed more of what Bernard was doing and kinda focused on that more. The ending is definitely interesting and makes you want to see what happens next. I hope they keep this up and the next episodes even be more interesting and better and don't repeat their mistakes from season 2 and especially season 3.
I think the new plot with a certain familiar character,,, well his face is on this episode's page here so what the hell, the new plot with Bernard is certainly intriguing as he's one of the few remaining characters that are actually interesting anymore and have good plots. They didn't show anything from Delores in this episode because I guess they had even less materials than the boring uninteresting ones they showed in the last episode.
The plot with Caleb's wife and daughter, I wouldn't say it's boring or unnecessary, but it was definitely one that could've been wrapped in 5 minutes, but because the Maeve and Caleb plot had so much more to show and this daughter plot had to catch up to it, or rather wait for it to catch up, they dragged it and kept doing this fade to black cliffhangers that felt really awkward and amateurish. Although it has a decent tie-in with Caleb's plot line and makes the episode a little more intense and thrilling, and that makes me forgive them for dragging it, even though if you think about it, it would've made zero sense timeline-wise if it happened, unless they had portal guns or something. It was obvious what they were going for, but it doesn't make it any less engaging and intense, so it wasn't that bad.
The whole plot with Maeve and Caleb and reminiscing the past with some new twits was really nice and felt like we're actually watching Westworld again, although they could've played with that twist a little longer - even though it was obvious - and made it a little more mysterious and not just outright say what it is after 5 seconds.
Anyway, all in all, a good episode where all the plots were interesting enough, but nonetheless, minus the Maeve, the other two plots felt like dragging for no reason just to keep with the Maeve plot. I also wish that at the beginning they showed more of what Bernard was doing and kinda focused on that more. The ending is definitely interesting and makes you want to see what happens next. I hope they keep this up and the next episodes even be more interesting and better and don't repeat their mistakes from season 2 and especially season 3.
Westworld moving forward
Turanic11 July 2022
I was a huge fan of Season 1, like pretty much hell a lot of people, I totally hated season 2, while season 3 was sort of okay because I enjoyed the concept and Matrix feeling about it, season 4 so fair is closer to season 1 and I am actually enjoying it so far, possibly more than Season 3... There will definitely be unexpected plot twists and there will be nobody to trust it, seems the only humanity's hope is Bernard at this point ... Overall hell enjoyable episode...
This certainly was an episode of Westworld season 4
georgvelis11 July 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This episode exists. It was filmed and it stars actors. Things happen in it. It was written and it definetely includes music.
Jokes aside. Aaron Paul continues to give the most boring performance possible with the exception of one intense scene. Characters continue to talk in vague terms for no reason even when it makes little sense in the context. But Bernard finally appears and we get a solid continuation to his s3 storyline. The first scene especially was great and visually stunning. We get the same old Westworld stuff in the new park but it is interesting that they incorporated the host uprising in the game.
P. S. A fly just landed on my screen when writing this reviEw, should i be worried?
Jokes aside. Aaron Paul continues to give the most boring performance possible with the exception of one intense scene. Characters continue to talk in vague terms for no reason even when it makes little sense in the context. But Bernard finally appears and we get a solid continuation to his s3 storyline. The first scene especially was great and visually stunning. We get the same old Westworld stuff in the new park but it is interesting that they incorporated the host uprising in the game.
P. S. A fly just landed on my screen when writing this reviEw, should i be worried?
great episode
smonster0011 July 2022
Even though it kinda uses the first season's Westworld park as a set/loop it doesn't feel boring at all. They didn't stick around too long in the old-westworld setting and jumped straight to the goal instead of dragging it out.
There is also a kind of play on fatalism and Bernard (so it kinda feels predictable on what is going to happen in future episodes), but we shall see how they will handle it. So far this is the best episode so far. Can't wait for more.
There is also a kind of play on fatalism and Bernard (so it kinda feels predictable on what is going to happen in future episodes), but we shall see how they will handle it. So far this is the best episode so far. Can't wait for more.
extremely poorly written episode
0w028 July 2022
This is your typical "I have the opportunity to kill the bad guy, but I'm not going to (for the sake of fake drama), so that the bad guy can come back literally 2minutes later and find me".
This is extremely unrealistic, as no logical, normal character would leave their archenemy alive... it's literally like you have the opportunity to kill Hitler, but you don't and you just run away... nobody would do that, and yet, in this episode, that is exactly what the writers wrote. It just completely breaks the immersion of the story, and makes you realize that you're just watching some scenario with some actors, and that's it.
This is extremely unrealistic, as no logical, normal character would leave their archenemy alive... it's literally like you have the opportunity to kill Hitler, but you don't and you just run away... nobody would do that, and yet, in this episode, that is exactly what the writers wrote. It just completely breaks the immersion of the story, and makes you realize that you're just watching some scenario with some actors, and that's it.
Westworld is back on track!
shaniyamoosa11 July 2022
Waiting for more
Mazenabdo12 July 2022
Uncomfortable, unsettling.. where will the path take us?
scott-donaldson17 July 2022
In this season, the hosts have the power of gods. The imbalance in power is greater than ever, and the disturbing inventions that the hosts are working on (a sinister tower and a strange black liquid) suggests their victory is inevitable.
There is a thread of bleak fatalism throughout this season, that the writers are attempting to finely balance with the hero characters. This episode, bringing an old favourite back from the dead with visionary powers, and offers the first evidence that defeat for the humans is not certain.
There is a thread of bleak fatalism throughout this season, that the writers are attempting to finely balance with the hero characters. This episode, bringing an old favourite back from the dead with visionary powers, and offers the first evidence that defeat for the humans is not certain.
Back online.
W011y4m511 July 2022
After what's been a tumultuous viewing experience as of late, by this episode of S4, Westworld finally seems to have regained the strength it lost during the 2nd half of S3 & is returning to the standard set by S1 & 2. There's no denying it's been shaky for a while but the sense of promise & potential the show used to possess is gradually building back up again & I'm so glad to see, as I was beginning to lose faith it would ever repair what had perceivably been broken. That's not to say that future installments are guaranteed to retain the quality present in today's episode, but for the first time in a long while, I'm hopeful.
About time
Antifascist8414 July 2022
Easily the best episode since Kiksuya. Those rating the episode low can be described best with the word 'simple' or maybe they should just stick with coco melon, and leave adult shows for the adults.
Episode 1 was so so, episode 2 was an improvement, but this episode was a return to season 1 form.
Episode 1 was so so, episode 2 was an improvement, but this episode was a return to season 1 form.
Enter sandman
matiasbockerman15 July 2022
Yes ! What an comeback after a long wait during pointless previous Season and the Time between second Season finale and this episode:Finally this shows plotlines makes sense. Best episode since ep. S02e08, maybe Best since a finale of first Season. Emmyworth tv entertainment.
Enjoying this season
iphonekelsey14 July 2022
Warning: Spoilers
The first episode of the season was decent, and we needed an episode to touch base with some characters, I just didn't care much for the cutaways in editing, but I do suppose that is how WW showrunners wanted it done. Still a decent episode, and of course somewhat better than any episode in season 3. Episodes 2 and 3 however have sucked me back in. I am already making connections in my head for these plot threads and it's quite fun. I love the return to the park and the new theme! I was not looking forward to Aaron Paul this season just because I feel like his acting has been pretty rough over the last several years and I didn't enjoy his character in season 3, but he has been doing much better this season, especially this particular episode. Episodes 2 and 3 have given me major "Counterpart" vibes and I am totally here for it. Not sure what some of this season's complaints are about. Things are absolutely making sense and no, rules are not randomly changing, unless the characters in the show want things to change. Anyone giving this any rating on the lower half of the scale probably thinks it's literally still 2022 in the Westworld universe and that time moves in a linear manner in the show. Use your brain and enjoy this maze while you can.
The show is becoming unwatchable
joshuavogel7913 July 2022
Season 1 had mysteries, but also clear rules for how the world worked. We understood what the stakes were in each scene. But now the show feels like a fever dream where the rules change every few minutes, everyone is always in danger in every scene, but death isn't real so consequences mean nothing.
It's just... Stupid.
Everything about this show has become terminally stupid. I don't even think it's possible to write themselves out of this mess.
I'm not sure what the characters are even trying to do anymore. And I certainly don't care about them anymore. They don't feel real their actions and motivations are inconsistent and nonsensical.
They kept trying to go for a bigger and more mysterious plot, and now it just all feels to crazy to even follow let alone care about.
It's just... Stupid.
Everything about this show has become terminally stupid. I don't even think it's possible to write themselves out of this mess.
I'm not sure what the characters are even trying to do anymore. And I certainly don't care about them anymore. They don't feel real their actions and motivations are inconsistent and nonsensical.
They kept trying to go for a bigger and more mysterious plot, and now it just all feels to crazy to even follow let alone care about.
Don't forget to bring the shovel!
makototron11 July 2022
No digging required in this episode.
Characters literally point out the easter eggs and give you a map of what's being hidden.
Is this the anti-Westworld Westworld episode? Have it's creators just given into their brute desires for sci-fi-ultraviolence without the usual pretension for compatibilist free will didactics? Have they said "F-it" to their Matryoshka-esque mystery box within a box?!
In an episode that bounces between 3 plot lines, ends without completing any of them, leaves out a major character, telegraphs action payoffs with obvious edits, overflows with self-reference, opens with cheesy "gotta save the world" dialogue and ends with a featurette, usually reserved for a short making-of-the-episode, with nothing more than the show's actors and creators talking about how much they love the show and it's characters - it never gets bogged down...up its own ass.
In fact, despite all these typically eye-rolling cliches and creative decisions the episode moves urgently and self-confidently, giving just the right amount of attention to its philosophical proclivities.
Like Jeffrey Wright's character, Bernard, Westworld's makers have seen all the possible ways to wrap up all the show's plot threads, and determined what might need to die to make things work.
But of course, none of the above is completely true. It was just one amazing hour of a show that's taken over 30 hours to arrive. Ultimately, it was an energetic breath of life into its fans' pearls - next week the 4 season course on superdeterminism and radical randomness continues. But we'll always have Années Folles - an iterative fever dream of peak television sublime!
Characters literally point out the easter eggs and give you a map of what's being hidden.
Is this the anti-Westworld Westworld episode? Have it's creators just given into their brute desires for sci-fi-ultraviolence without the usual pretension for compatibilist free will didactics? Have they said "F-it" to their Matryoshka-esque mystery box within a box?!
In an episode that bounces between 3 plot lines, ends without completing any of them, leaves out a major character, telegraphs action payoffs with obvious edits, overflows with self-reference, opens with cheesy "gotta save the world" dialogue and ends with a featurette, usually reserved for a short making-of-the-episode, with nothing more than the show's actors and creators talking about how much they love the show and it's characters - it never gets bogged down...up its own ass.
In fact, despite all these typically eye-rolling cliches and creative decisions the episode moves urgently and self-confidently, giving just the right amount of attention to its philosophical proclivities.
Like Jeffrey Wright's character, Bernard, Westworld's makers have seen all the possible ways to wrap up all the show's plot threads, and determined what might need to die to make things work.
But of course, none of the above is completely true. It was just one amazing hour of a show that's taken over 30 hours to arrive. Ultimately, it was an energetic breath of life into its fans' pearls - next week the 4 season course on superdeterminism and radical randomness continues. But we'll always have Années Folles - an iterative fever dream of peak television sublime!
wait so when did Bernard wake up?
MooovieFan1 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Love this episode and the direction it's taking Westworld, but I'm confused about Bernard's timeline: seems he went to the Sublime realm during the end of season 3, then wakes up 7 years later in this episode (which is supposed to coincide in time with Maeve and Caleb teaming up again), but then he found the group of Caleb's grown daughter, but that's supposed to be 23 years after the human Caleb died. Did it take Bernard 23 years to find Caleb's daughter and dig up Maeve? But why, since he already knew where to dig? Confused... (update: confusion resolved upon re-watching the episode. Bernard woke up 30 years after end of S3, not 7 years, got confused by the time-jump editing and by the Westworld fandom wiki.)
Filming is a masterpiece
moviesfilmsreviewsinc15 August 2022
Westworld is a very clever show. At times, it might be too clever for its own good, but although it can sometimes be difficult to follow the narrative, you always feel the writers have given every moment and twist serious thought. Nowhere is that more apparent than "Annees Folles." In two very crucial ways, the episode marks a return to familiar environments: Bernard emerges from the Sublime with a new mission, and Maeve finds herself essentially back where it all began in the first season, albeit with slightly different window dressing. I tend to really like when two plots mirror one another structurally, and Bernard's emergence into the real world and Maeve's return to a Delos theme park really scratch that itch for me. It's fun to watch the two of them as parallels, both armed with the knowledge of what exactly the other person is going to do before they do it. With Maeve, it's simply accessing her memories of Sweetwater; with Bernard, it's something different entirely, a kind of final synthesis of the work carried out by Rehoboam and Incite without all the kidnapping and mind control. Bernard was given a gift by Dolores, and in return, he's going to take up her mission and save humanity, even potentially at the cost of his own life. The duo worked very well for me last season, and their easy rapport hasn't gone away during the prolonged break between seasons; that's still a very fun pair, more so than the brooding Caleb and Maeve team up. Thandiwe Newton gives Maeve's tongue extra sharpness, and it's fun to watch her guide Caleb through Sweetwater's traps with a look of disdain, but we've seen a newbie thrust into Westworld before, and Delos cheaping out on story design and character motivations (a deliberate choice in Kevin Lau and Suzanne Wrubel's script) takes away some of that wide-eyed introductory magic. We've seen it before, even if Caleb hasn't, and like Maeve, we're a little over it. In the hands of director Hanelle M. Culpepper, the recreation of Sweetwater seen through jaded eyes works. Maeve lived this introduction thousands of times; it never changed, even if she did, so her sole mission is to avoid any of those interactions to keep Caleb from getting distracted by a fake scenario. The drift through the cityscape is appropriately busy and feels immense; it's no wonder Caleb can't stop gawking at everything going on around him - this feels fuller and richer than Sweetwater did on its best, busiest moments. The park visitor, obsessed with easter eggs, is a fun inversion of the Man in Black. He was willing to torture every host in the park to get to the secrets hidden by Ford; she merely seems to wander around openly talking about it until she somehow finds it. No doubt, it was set up by a Host posing as a guest, but for a brief moment, the panic is real for Maeve and Caleb.
Ramin Djawadi is a freakin' genius
szatmaridzs13 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Seriously, no one will talk a bout the fact that in the robbery scene the music was Enter Sandman???? How cool is that! Stubbs is back on track and he's still the funniest character in the show. I like the Maeve part it is really interesting and Jesse Pinkman on it so it should be good.
"The Westworld Massacre"
CulvertonSmith20 July 2022
Really digging it, I liked the first two episodes but here I feel the season is really picking up the pace. I'm very intrigued by the Bernard stuff in particular, Jeffrey Wright is as great as always but his storyline is also very engaging and sets up something I'm really excited to see play out. The Maeve and Caleb plot is also surprisingly strong, I didn't know where it was going initially but really liked seeing where it progressed to and wound up enjoying it quite a bit. Very entertaining episode, hopefully the season continues in this direction.
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