#Westworld season 1 series

HereвЂ™s the good, the better, and the best of the Westworld season one finale (along with one thing that still bugs me about the show).

I struggled a lot with season one, but after this finale, I could not be more excited for season two to arrive.

And if it sometimes struggles to reach that ambition, well, it still gets points for trying. вЂњThe Bicameral Mind,вЂќ ultimately, reveals Westworld to be a show of almost bottomless ambition.

#Westworld season 1 series

You, like a Host, are just an endless series of loops, and the sooner you realize that, the sooner you can break out of whatever hell youвЂ™ve been imprisoned in. To make your own decisions requires understanding that you were always going to make those decisions, understanding that you are, on some level, programmed to do so. In the end, Westworld argues, the only way to truly be conscious, to truly have free will, is to understand that you have no free will. Robots are finally rising up against humans - and IвЂ™d be hard-pressed to say I want any of the humans to survive. The season, all along, seemed as if it were a meditation on the nature of consciousness, and it was - sort of.Д«ut in вЂњBicameral,вЂќ it pulls the rug out from under the audience over and over again, until it winds up exactly where you thought it would, in the most delectable way possible. In its super-sized season one finale, вЂњThe Bicameral Mind,вЂќ Westworld suggests that there is no answer to the above question. Is it the things you like? The feelings you feel? The thoughts you have? Or is it something more ephemeral - something religion might dub the вЂњsoul,вЂќ the part of yourself that is hidden away and untouchable to everyone but God?