[The following discusses plot points from the finale of Westworld season two.]

Westworld got stuck dragging its boots a bit in season two, an unfortunate side-effect of the twisting timelines and various different factions that are all trying to get to the same place, but things did start to move at a decent clip once it got to the finale—to the extent that the post-credits stinger apparently…

Westworld’s second season one-upped its predecessor by introducing not just new parks, but confusing, abstract manifestations like The Cradle, The Forge, and The Valley Beyond. Still, despite all the rips in reality, there was some neat stuff to grab onto in the finale, like Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Bernard’s…

It looks like Westworld hasn’t quite become the cultural phenomenon that HBO’s Game Of Thrones is, as Digital Spy is reporting that the ratings for the show’s recent season finale are down by 30 percent from the last season finale. The Wrap notes that the ratings for the finale are also down by 24 percent from the…

Sunday night was the season finale of Westworld—an episode whose plot points I will not be spoiling here, because to do so would suggest not only that I actually retained them, but that I had some understanding of their significance. I’ve watched two seasons of the HBO sci-fi drama now and, while I’m mildly conversant…

This post contains plot details from Detroit: Become Human, season two of Westworld, and Blade Runner 2049.

Westworld’s season-two finale was an unusually expansive one, relying not so much on cliffhangers or coy teases as a massive dilation of the show’s scope. The first season took its “robot cowboy theme park” concept remarkably seriously, and the second one explored the violent ends created by those violent delights.…

[Note: As implied by the headline, this post discusses key plot details from the season two finale of Westworld.]

In a shocking twist, Westworld saved its biggest reveals until the end. After a mixed season with some exceptional emotional storytelling and a lot of detached meandering, we get what really happened in the final 40 minutes of an hour-and-a-half-long episode. Here’s the story you’ve actually been watching, the writers…

The season finale of Westworld airs tonight on HBO, but star Evan Rachel Wood is doing something more important than promoting her work this weekend. Evidently appalled by the inhuman bullshit Donald Trump and his goons are doing down at the United States’ southern border, Wood has hopped on a plane and flown down to…

Earlier this week, Warner Bros. published a new mobile game based on Westworld that has players blatantly disregarding the message of the show and building the best robot-murder theme park they can. One look at the details and images from the game, and anyone who’s played Fallout Shelter can tell its borrowing quite a…

Westworld is rounding into its second-season finale with plenty of questions still unanswered, which means that the always-productive fan theorizing around the show is reaching a fever pitch. Even the title of the last episode—“The Passenger”—is being scrutinized, and one fascinating theory suggests the seeds for its…

If it feels like every new episode of Westworld raises more questions than it answers, you are not alone in your puzzle-box confusion. The Man In Black himself, Ed Harris, tells Vulture he isn’t always sure what’s happening, or in what period it’s all going down.

It’s probably just a coincidence that tonight’s Westworld is airing on Father’s Day. But as (probable) coincidences go, it’s a good one. Mean, but good. Much of “Vanishing Point” is spent on William, both in the present and in the past, as we finally get more concrete information about his wife (played in flashback by…

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It makes sense that Westworld would have Indians. Not Native Americans, but “Indians”—the kind that used to show up in Westerns to menace homesteaders and go on warpaths. The park wasn’t built to offer up an informed, culturally respectful take on the past. The park, as we’ve learned multiple times, was built to offer…

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The following contains spoilers for season two, episode seven of Westworld.

We’ve talked before about how Westworld doesn’t have a particularly high view of humanity. There’s nothing wrong with that—plenty of great shows and books and movies and all sorts of art has been made that used our general crumminess as a main theme. The trick is that things have to be interesting even when they…

Of all the new elements introduced in season two of Westworld, the impressively athletic and eerily silent “drone hosts” are perhaps the most unsettling. Quartered away in the park’s many underground laboratories, these creeps aren’t designed to be convincingly human like other hosts but rather function as obedient,…