You want answers? The penultimate episode of Westworld season three has them. Caleb’s mysterious past? Check. The full extent of Serac’s depravity? Check. The identities of Maeve’s new B-Squad? Check. The surprise betrayal, badass fight scenes, and disturbingly cool future tech were just bonuses.
If you’ve been waiting patiently for Westworld to start messing with your mind again, I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is there are some deeply mysterious, confusing questions raised in tonight’s episode. The bad news is that I don’t think all of them have answers.
Westworld’s season three premiere profoundly changed the playing field by bringing the hosts out of the park and into the larger world, where they might gain a modicum of freedom in the process of burning the human world down. But the series’ amazing vision of a futuristic society is more…