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Managing editor & film and television critic with a Bachelor's of Arts in English Literature with a Writing Minor from the University of Guam. Currently in graduate school completing a Master's in English Literature.
Old faces emerge from the wreckage of the park. HBO’s Westworld returns with its third season. Here is our review on its second episode “The Winter Line” written by Matthew Pitts (Fringe) and Lisa Joy, and directed by Richard J. Lewis.
Minor spoilers ahead for those who have not yet watched the episode or seen the show.
The episode’s direction, cinematography, and musical score are great, but it does better in its storytelling and acting aspects. This week’s Westworld follows Bernard Lowe returns to the Westworld Delos park in his search for Maeve Millay but stumbles upon the head of the park’s security, Ashley Stubbs, one of the surviving humans left in the aftermath of what went down in Season 2. Bernard aims to stop Delores, who is “out to destroy the human race or enslave it.” On the interim, Maeve herself awakes in a simulation and finds a way to get out of captivity with the help of her two love interests from the park, Lee Sizemore and Hector Escaton.
Although nothing too significant occurs, Maeve steals every scene she is in. Not only that, but she has some of the best lines in this week’s episode. She discovers that nothing she experiences is real — or at least beyond traditional for what happens at the Westworld park — and she tells those around her, “This war wasn’t meant for us. It’s a trap that you’ll never escape … This place, it’s all a construct … We are all traitors.”
The main take-away from this episode is destiny. Everything happens for a reason. If we die, we can still immortalize ourselves through the mega-machine that is digital technology. “The Winter Line” is a title for an episode of Westworld that deals nothing with snow, however, we do get a huge Game of Thrones Easter Egg, implying that HBO viewers and fans of either or both series may get a crossover between two shows in the near future. Overall, we don’t know what to expect when we see a simulacrum of the simulation. Sometimes you die, and sometimes you die and are reborn. Whatever happens, make sure you pick the right decisions.
7.8 / 10
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Managing editor & film and television critic with a Bachelor's of Arts in English Literature with a Writing Minor from the University of Guam. Currently in graduate school completing a Master's in English Literature.
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