Westworld Season 4 Review: Final Review! Wow Back To Where It Started In The First Half
Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Luke Hemsworth
Creator: Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy
Streaming Platform: HBO
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 4/5 (four stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
Westworld Season 4 is still a serial masterpiece. After 6 years and 4 seasons, the 8 episodes confirmed the good things we had seen after the first 4 preview episodes: the confirmation of how it is possible to combine narration, writing, special effects, and visual power. Westworld is a TV series that creates its imagery, and its serial world and invites the viewer to enter it. But it’s a speakeasy, you need to know the password to access and share a unique experience with (few) other lucky patrons. Because we were probably less and less waiting with joy for the fateful return of Westworld. Many had removed it from their minds, for others it has become a complex game to mock.
So, on an important British site, I happened to read a review of Westworld Season 4 entirely built on the regret of the charm of the first season and on an ironic reference to the use of children in American series, in the classic exercise of taking a, taking it to extremes to transform it. in the denigrating appeal. The same game as populist politicians. All opinions are legitimate, otherwise, I would not be here to comment on TV series every day and we would not have created a page where we collect all the report cards of the TV series. Surely Westworld is a complex, repulsive series, which enjoys its being labyrinthine (but after all Maze was the theme of the first season and the labyrinth recurs in the series), however, it has a technical quality in the development of the story clearly above average.
Westworld Season 4 Review: The Story
The series begins directly from Season 3 after new protagonists Caleb and Maeve destroy the center of the prophecy and control the people of the world to free people to make their own decisions. To begin with, Caleb had a happy family with children. But Calep was always suspicious. Until Maeve comes back to him with the bad news that Charlotte Hale is back with William, who has become her henchman. Causing Calep to go on a mission to leave his wife and daughter behind. Before the whole world had completely changed from what he knew.
The story continues to play with timeline switching. With Caleb’s timeline being the main storyline, he’s on a mission to manage Hale. There is Bernard’s line as another seer who intervenes in the story. And there’s a new character, Christina, played by the same Evan Rachel Wood, who has played the main protagonist Dolores for three seasons. Which is the present, past, future, real world, and simulated world, made so smooth that the audience can’t guess for sure. Considered that the series is still the cool of the chapter here. But the story will choose the answer to episode 4, which is quite wow that the story can still find a new way to continue. Although it may not be very fresh. But it was very inviting to follow in the second half.
After episode 5, the story no longer switches timelines. Called the story walking in a straight line to a single destination, destroying the entire system like the previous part as before, but the fun of the story gradually Decreases and decreases according to the number of episodes. It seems that the budget to produce a peak scene. There will be no later than the story is therefore a battle on a small scale. All face-to-face and then finish the story with clear everything and reset the world again to finish in Season 5 the creators have announced that this is the last season of this series.
Westworld Season 4 Review and Analysis
The real highlight of this season is trying to get back most of the old characters that have died. The first half almost brought back the park scenes of the first season. with a new story added from the original. The way the series returns to the beginning of the story is very good. But it must be bracketed that this park’s storyline is only the first half of the season. So, it’s a return, just hard to cure. It’s not a return to that point again. The downside of the season is probably the reduced production scale that doesn’t match the story’s ambitions to the greatest extent. Until at some point, I feel like the scale of the scene in the story is limited to telling only one city, the story does not try to explain the whole world much. Makes it look like it doesn’t make sense in the overall picture of the story.
However, if you are already a Westworld fan, I still recommend you watch it. Because this season has a lot of things that look better than Season 3, you can call it the worst, at least it made viewers peak in the first half with the revival of the park. This is the main core of the story that people like the most and is the origin of this great series. Westworld‘s complexity can be repulsive, but in Season 4, the series tries to move forward. The development of the story is articulated around 4 axes in which the main one is the adventure of Caleb (Aaron Paul) and Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) who end up finding themselves in a new “American Mafia” park, a fascinating world that replicates the 1930s, in which elements of the past tend to repeat themselves.
Then there is Christina, the new character of Evan Rachel Wood after her Dolores has effectively disappeared, remaining only in the body of Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson), whose events we follow along with William (Ed Harris). Finally, we also see Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) looking for something in an unspecified place and time, while he teams up with a group of rebels in which we find a character played by Aurora Perrineau.
If after 4 episodes for most of the narrative lines something seems to clear up, the biggest mystery is related to Wood’s Christina. Her character is an author of stories for background characters, those who interact with the protagonists but are not at the center of the scene. And at the end of the 8 episodes, this role of her will have a fundamental part in the overall balance. Freedom, self-determination, and free will remain the fundamental themes of this series, a manifesto on the meaning of “human”. What makes us human? Who knows if at the end of Westworld we will be able to have an answer? Above all, we hope to be able to have an ending and not decide (precisely in light of its complexity) to close the series. Hope comes from the last scenes of the season that open just one last season.
Westworld Season 4 Review: The Last Words
Westworld Season 4, where the first half tells a story with a complex but fun timeline. Then bring the park and important old characters from 1-2 back to tell a new story. Makes viewers miss the good things from the first season a lot. Looks like a season that wows audiences with a good start. But after the storyline has completely solved the timeline in episode 4, it becomes a continuous storyline. The interest diminishes and is not as fun as in the first half. Before ending on a small scale, it seems like I don’t have much budget to do action scenes. And then reset the world again to continue with Season 5, which is the last season.
