It feels like a completely different show, and no matter how futuristic the first two seasons are, due to the set up somehow they felt like a possible future reality, but season 3 depicts "our world" in a highly futuristic fashion and I am not talking about the esthetic aspect of it, the actual way society is ruled is completely unrelatable contrary to how they explored the AI concepts on the first two seasons.įor me that caused a dissociation with the plots of the last 2 seasons, which are not terrible, they are just more generic and boring.
However things changed radically on season 3 and consequently the 4th as well - while I kind of understand that they want to continue to explore how our world would be impacted after the events of season 1 finale, I don't think they executed it the best way. Westworld is in its essence a study of humanity, how our own flaws can cause our (possible) future extinction, how we are so violence driven in a world that has so much more to offer, this is the beauty of Westworld and adding all of this to the twists, the amazing cinematography, special effects and acting made this series gain such popularity. However it didn't, so then came season 2 which even though wasn't as impactful and good as its predecessor it still managed to keep the story going with some now famous Westworld twists. That might sound good for a TV show but I feel Westworld suffers (a bit more) from "True Detective disease", the first season sets the bar so high that is almost impossible to be consistently that good, one can even argue that this could've been a miniseries and wrap up after the final episode of its first season.
When I first saw Westworld, I kid you not I saw the entire first season in a single day, of course seeing Jonathan Nolan as one of the co-writers of the project immediately convinced me, but nothing prepared me for the Sci-Fi spectacle that was season 1.
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