Upon asking about it, we suddenly flash back to find out how Abernathy got away, but in all honesty, I’m not sure what the dramatic points of any of these scenes were. The episode then double downs on making a few things clear: (1) Charlotte is pulling the strings here and she’s the real big bad, and (2) She’s still after our Daddy Abertnathy. Upon seeing Bernard, she smiles and tells him, “You made it out alive … Didn’t think you had it in you.” She clearly knows something, but yet again, we’re still miles behind. But as such, after these two guests get “real” with each other, they go out into the park and face their comeuppance.Īfter the tease, we are brought to the near-future (with the soldiers, post-flood) and find that Tessa Thompson’s Charlotte has also survived the onslaught. “Think the park would go through the trouble of having one of them pretend to be one of us?” Response: “Wouldn’t put it past them.” This clues us into one of the show’s darkest insights, yet: Even the guests have the vague awareness that something nefarious could be happening here and they’re going about it anyway. There’s an even more intriguing game going on between our two colonizers in their opening romp, as they test each other to see the other is a robot. Of course that’d be a thing! Spend your days galavanting with rich colonizers, hunting Bengal tigers, and experiencing the exotic delights of 19th-century imperialism! There could not be a more on-the-nose option for the hubris of the overall Westworld ethos, which is built on the appeal of going to an exotic culture and then killing and/or having sex with it.
And I, for one, am all for it - starting with the opening vignette where we discover one of the other parks is basically British Imperial India World. Sure, we’ve had amusing moments throughout the series, but this is undoubtedly the pulpiest episode yet. Is it me or did Westworld just learn to have some fun?
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