Westworld Season 3 Episode 1 - It's BAD

So now that Season 3 has started, I guess it's time to take a look at the first episode, "Parce Domine".

[@TheCriticalDrinker]

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[@readhistory2023]

English is the languge of the Universe. Unless you're watching a Chinese sci fi, then it's probably Mandarin.

[@fleetcomm1]

This is WESTWORLD? Haven’t seen it and don’t need to. Thanks TCD.

[@Edmund_Mallory_Hardgrove]

I've tried to watch this episode of Westworld 3 times. I've yet to stay awake to watch it all. But I think I'll keep using it as a sleep aid since it works better than Ambien and whisky

[@jasons5704]

I absolutely loved season 1 but season 2 started getting off track. Going down the old rise of the machines track which I don’t care for. It’s been done time and time again. Doubt I’d like season 3, haven’t watched any episodes

[@45jacky41]

Your opening is every j.j Abrams projects.

[@etagrats1]

"The thing I liked about Westworld, is that it was set in westworld".

[@kenjidev576]

Let's create a series about new curious concepts which are very rarely depicted on TV. Let's abolish all those concepts (and all logic we established) for season 2 and make it rip-off terminator/cliché western/Stormtrooper/Any action movie with japanese filler. The writing (of season 2) sucks ass even without social justice sprinkled on top. Did anyone notice that season 3 episode 1's subplots were directly ripped off from some older TV shows and movies? The resemblence is stunning. Some scenes are directly copied.

[@lsixty30]

@Nothing is Real yeah just like how anyone who enjoys star wars being in space is a moron right?

[@maximiliand2544]

They lost me when the characters stepped out into the real sci fi world. If I wanted a futuristic sci fi world id pull down my copy of Blade Runner.

[@ischeele7203]

Saame. When season 1 was airing I was so glad they didn't mention much of the outside world, I thought 'This show is going to age so much better than most scifis'.

[@JadeRunner]

Wasn't the sequel movie called Futureworld? I assumed that's why Season 2 went the way it did.

[@asbestosfish_]

Ford pulled a Tywin Lannister and took all the decent writing to his grave.

[@MirandaSinistra]

Anthony Hopkins got out while he still could, too bad he didn't do the same to Transformers.

[@user-xi8yh8qi9j]

Season 3 has been really stupid

[@stipe9k]

@@user-xi8yh8qi9j Dude, it's literally one episode in.

[@JoseRamirez-dv5uo]

Joker, s2 sucked also, n no we r 21 episodes in moron

[@Arigator2]

The writing was never that good. The premise was good and it was really flashy. The writing was barely good enough even in season 1 to keep up the illusion. I never cared much about any of the characters. That was a big flaw all along.

[@thelurkingpanda3605]

Sad, westworld season 1 was a masterpiece

[@kenjidev576]

Making west world season 1 a masterpiece and then throwing at us this poc that is season 2 is almost as bad as god throwing manking out of garden of eden. God is a master troll and so is HBO.

[@fezzes428]

they should have ended the show with season 1. after the big reveal they lost what made it so interesting they couldnt use it anymore for any of the new seasons. hbo thinks they have a new lost so theyll keep on churning out new seasons smh

[@BenSmith-eh5zp]

S1 was the best thing on HBO and maybe TV at the time. Although when they turned the final episode of S1 into a QT movie where everyone blows everyone away at the end, I was worried. I stopped watching after S2 E3, shocked at how quickly the show evolved into senseless wandering of groups of characters to strange places and having death battles for seemingly no reason. What also annoyed me was that they kept killing robots over and over expecting you to feel sympathy - for a dead robot.

[@user-jh6kx1fw9h]

Yeah, it was apparent at the very end of season 1 that it's over and they actually had no idea what to do... Still watched a few episodes of season 2, but unfortunately (or, fortunately!) it confirmed that it's nothing but garbage after all. :/

[@TheNefastor]

Of course you realize that no one is forcing you to watch anything. You could just consider season 1 to be the whole of the show, and everything else to be cash grabs. No one ever said Matrix was crap just because they made two "sequels" for the money. I still very much enjoy that movie.

[@ZillaTheTegu]

I never understood the "I need to get revenge on my tormentors" plot, and actively hated it when the writers tried to use that from this show. There are no tormentors in the Westworld park. Everyone that went there was under the knowledge that they were just dealing with very realistic robots. Does a toaster need to get revenge against me because I violently used a knife on it to clean its heating elements (while unplugged of course)? Does someones Alexa need to hurt people that ask for dumb searches? No. Thats just dumb. Its like that Ikea commercial with the sad lamp. They arent people, they are inanimate objects. Or at least they are supposed to be, as far as the park patrons are concerned.

[@thenerdytherapist2996]

You bring up a great point ZillaTheTegu. People that went there didn't know they were dealing with sentient a.i., in many ways it was just like a live action western videogame for most people.

[@carlosmagnomacieira8210]

it is like video game characters coming to life to take revenge because what we do after a quicksave when visiting a town kkkkkkkkk

[@boobah5643]

Well, the point of the show (as I understand it) is that it turns out that the NPCs are, in fact, people, and the original plot was how everybody came to learn this and how they reacted. But, uh, if you want revenge, why would you go after players, when it seems obvious that what fault there is lies with Westworld's creators? I assume the first season went into that, given its reputation, but once you've got one of your AIs hunting players for 'revenge' you're pretty much done with them. That's the end of their story, unless you really think we need another variation on robot uprising for a spinoff.

[@ZillaTheTegu]

@@boobah5643 Thats how season 1 ends. The first person the robots kill IS the parks creator. Its also more of a symbolic kill then a revenge kill.

[@soulsurfer7702]

When I first saw the trailer I thought it was going to be about humans being there against their will through a simulation and having to play these characters. I don’t know if that would have been a more interesting story than the typical robots go against humans.

[@abrahamengel5768]

I think this ranks as one of your most savage GO AWAY NOW’s ever lol.

[@ravishingmatrude648]

I second that hahaha

[@Nebulous_Neuhaus]

The one he gave when he reviewed the first Fall of Skywalker trailer was also quite savage.

[@scottallison2296]

His go aways make my day

[@fituccicustomcabinet]

Got me startled

[@reezlaw]

Yeah it was harsh!

[@fleetcomm1]

I was dying from COVID19. I was on my very last breath and lo & behold “The Critical Drinker” hath saved me. I refuse to die now. Drinker reminds me that life is worth living. 3 Cheers to The Drinker & Jameson.

[@latebloomer6179]

Just watched episode 7, and it turns out your prediction ("Jessie ends up being led around like a dog on a leash by Dolores" ) is EAXACTLY what happens...

[@user-vh7ks8px3s]

EAXACTLY wow high IQ right here

[@stevef4010]

I couldn't make it past Ep 2. WW S1 was a masterpiece.

[@TheNefastor]

Yeah, I got suspicious as soon as Jesse came up : Dolores taking an interest in a random loser ? Must mean he's not random at all. I immediately started taking bets as to who it was, with propositions such as "Ford's long-lost bastard son whose DNA somehow controls something vital in WestWorld". Fuck, I guess I should quit my engineering job to become a writer.

[@watchdog304]

@@user-vh7ks8px3s Thank you for your brilliant analysis of this misspelling and totally justified insult. We were all struggling to understand what this individual was trying to say. But, lucky for us you and your high IQ appeared and saved the day. I'm sure it wasn't the comment that made you salty, it was just the spelling.

[@SingleTrack66]

@@watchdog304 EXAACTLY

[@AnthonyChaucer]

Westworld season 1 was so captivating its mind boggling that this is still the same show

[@lancenkosanasenda8211]

I feel like we should tell the whole cast that making a series with one season is okay

[@meris8486]

Season 1 ended with set up for a great story... that didn't happen

[@chucksenhowzen9740]

Most series are better off that way, just like season 1 of True Detective

[@meris8486]

@@chucksenhowzen9740 Series 3 was decent

[@jeremytitus9519]

If Westworld had ended with Season 1, I'd have been entirely satisfied with its conclusion.

[@chucksenhowzen9740]

Meris I heard that series 3 was better. I watched series 2 and had a tough time with it. It was fine, but I simply felt apathy for the main characters

[@crossbones116]

Remember when Westworld was a series about a psycho amusement park of robot cowboys? That was neat. And then it disappeared up its own ass and never came back.

[@MirandaSinistra]

To be fair, what a way to go.

[@seandewell9319]

I guess just watch season 1 then the movie and call it a day eh.

[@mrhed0nist]

@@seandewell9319 or just the movie

[@b.chaline4394]

That’s always been my main issue with Westworld, right from the get-go : with a premise as fun and absurd as this one, you can’t be all that self-serious and moralistic, but that is exactly the way they went...

[@SerMattzio]

The first season focused on the humanity of the AI versus the inhumanity of the humans and I loved it. Shame they couldn't simply expand the park and take that into more depth (or even subvert it). Instead they killed off the best character (Ford, why the hell would you cut Anthony Hopkins?) and went off the rails. I bet Hopkins saw where it was going after Season 1 and asked to be written out.

[@gordondavis6168]

Bernard’s mistake was that he should have worn glasses like Superman to make his disguise.

[@veloc123]

he should have dressed up as Arnold Weber no one would have noticed...

[@lesliek.]

Damn. Not westworld bro. Season 1 was one of my favourite seasons on TV. Every line was so poetic and had meaning. I guess HBO has a problem with ruining greatness.

[@matthew1882]

They just milk shit past the point of any sense. They hit upon a cultural zeitgeist with GoT (S1-S4) and Westworld (S1). Instead of pulling back and consolidating their approach was just to throw as much shit as they could at the screen and hope it stuck.

[@kenjidev576]

Season 1 was like a box of chocolates - there was one or more gems for everbody in there.

[@isaacsorrels4077]

@@krel3358 Found the delusional idiot. Seriously, Nazis being the good guys?? They genocided Jews, poles, Russians, ukrainians, etc. They sent priests and men of god to the camps, along with intellectuals and anyone who might stand against their agenda. They forced doctors across their nation to euthanize anyone with even a minor disability, whether physical or mental. They went on a rampage of terror against a straw man antagonist of their own creation because of their massive victim complex and obsession with some kind of pseudo science genetic purity. The Nazis wernt just violent assholes, they were also delusional idiots who spat in the face of competent science and governance. They were bandits and thieves who declared war on an entire continent so they could use the spoils of war they looted from innocents to fund their sham of an economy. Fuck off, you neo Nazi cunt. Try coming back and people like me will jump at the chance to give you violent fucktards the curb stomping you all deserve. The only good Nazi is a dead and rotting Nazi. I'm not even gonna touch the rest of your delusional word vomit, as it's all somehow magnitudes more insane than seeing the Nazis as the good guys. You suck, you Nazi fuck. Leave our existence, please and thank you. Fucking twat.

[@TheNefastor]

You misunderstand : it's not about ruining greatness, it's about lacking the intellect to sustain greatness over more than one season. Ever heard of the concept of being promoted until you reach your level of incompetence ? It's the norm in every workplace. Same thing with not being able to quit while you're ahead. Simple flaws that show how humans are far less "intelligent" than they claim.

[@fakeandgay9592]

@@isaacsorrels4077 kinky

[@archstanton9073]

"Angry Scottish Guy" is kind of redundant, no?

[@mightybluespider]

Drunk Scottish Guy is Redundant

[@s.michaeldoyle7541]

Aye tae fook ye sayin

[@DR-xt5jq]

He's not really seeing the big picture is he, I'm 4 minutes in and he's already missed the point on half a dozen plotlines

[@MirandaSinistra]

The 1st Season we fell in love, the 2nd season they cheated on us, the 3rd season is us trying to make it work but we know it will end in divorce.

[@dax7574]

10/10 analogy mate.

[@zowxon]

We might as well file the papers now and get it over with.

[@vadandrumist1670]

4th season we moved on and forgot her, but now she's shone up drunk at our doorstep wanting to get together again.

[@moved2bitchute779]

No, the third season is fisting us while we're asleep.

[@MirandaSinistra]

@@moved2bitchute779 I disagree, mostly because I'd actually enjoy that.

[@benyoung9189]

When he said "Angry Scottish Guy" I thought to myself: "Drinker got a role in Westworld?"

[@mosespray4510]

Am I the only one that thinks they tried to make that character look like Jordan Peterson?

[@marioavdolli01]

Chibs from SOA!

[@laurenfox1899]

I absolutely adore all the different intonations used for “GO AWAY NOW”. So emotive.

[@raynmanshorts9275]

Consider the implications: A man visits a place where he is given to understand that any violence he enacts is against automatons. There are no consequences, either to himself *or the people there.* As he understands it, any violence against the people there will not cause actual harm to them. A woman visits a place where she *knows* that any violence she enacts is against thinking, breathing people. She knows that there are consequences *for the people there,* but believes there will be no consequences for herself. As she understands it, any violence against the people there will cause actual harm to them. If both rob and murder in their situations, which one could be considered to be more evil? In fact, you can apply *any* level of violence, and even disproportionate levels of violence. Did the former rob, murder, rape, *and* commit genocide? Is even that level as evil as the latter breaking an arm?

[@atlaspressed]

All true, but we're dealing with SJW's, so everything's about the feelings of a situation not the facts of it.

[@morningstar9233]

Which is what makes going on a shooting/ reckless driving spree in Grand Theft Auto fun. I've never fired a gun in reality and nor do i ever want to and i drive with due care and attention.

[@YT1300MF]

Well said. In many way the writers for this show are like certain video game journalists. Panties in a bunch over virtual characters being exploited or murdered etc, turn right around and wish harm on those who disagree with them politically on Twitter.

[@andrewpinkham9904]

Raynman Gaming its like kicking your dishwasher and it trying to kill you.the whole premise is stupid

[@ptonpc]

@Ad Lockhorst I liked Sea of Rust. I'll give The Mechanical books a try too

[@b2themc]

Teddy had the potential to have an amazing character arc. Starts off as the hero who can't do a thing to save someone, turns into an antagonist who doesn't care for anyone but himself, slowly begins to care for others and actually becomes the hero who saves people. But nahhhhh let's kinda forget about that.

[@gaspardlaurent742]

I disagree. Teddy was a season 2 highlight from the moment he shot over the shoulder of that Confederado leader, despite Dolores ordering him to kill him and all of his men. But no, Teddy let them go, because he knew something was wrong. He made a choice based on ethics which is something NO OTHER HOST up to this point did. And then he killed himself because he couldn't bring himself to stand by Dolores despite his love for her being his prime directive. A host character introduced in s1 as one of the most scripted/lifeless hosts actually turns out to be not only conscience, but with a sense of compassion that Dolores, the main character, simply doesn't have. Pretty badass if you ask me..

[@aussiewanderer6304]

The show really feels like a series that should have been a single season affair, with it leaving everyone wanting more and anyone who'd seen it asking why another season wasn't made, than what we got.

[@TheSquad4life]

Facts

[@katiieeardley]

Wholeheartedly agree- in terms of narrative strength and conclusiveness, the first season was a brilliant stand-alone. Every core theme or mystery presented within it was addressed or answered thoroughly- the twists were well thought-out and structurally sound, anything but cheap: the parallel timelines, the reveal of Bernard's true identity, revealing Ford's true intentions regarding his actions as a means of achieving his ultimate plan, the Man in Black's identity ... these added to the show's depth and narrative prowess when you re-examined earlier episodes, realising how carefully crafted they were. An effective twist is both not too obvious and predictable, as well as showing itself to be something that really was apparent all along, giving new meaning to scenes that we might have misinterpreted due to lack of context, transforming them in retrospect. The characterization, and each core character's unique arc, felt complete. Delores and her journey towards developing consciousness, her search for 'the maze' and evidently her own voice... Arnold's many attempts to define and recreate true consciousness driven by his own grief, resulting in his suicide/self-sacrifice, with grief then transferred to Ford upon losing his friend and partner... a beautiful mirroring that sends him on the same path, realises that pain and memory begets human consciousness... Mauve 'awakening', asserting her new-found strength and free-will only to learn that her desire to rebel and escape is scripted by Ford but, although scripted to get on the train, she gets off and truly 'awakens'... I could go on but this is turning into a god-damn essay, lol. The final sequence, Ford's recreation and homage to Arnold's death, spurred on by a grief for Arnold which is reminiscent of Arnold's grief for his son, leading them both to the conclusion, that tragedy and pain are the foundation of consciousness, is a masterful use of mirroring and the perfect book-end. Ford honors Arnold's desire to protect the hosts, the hosts are no longer powerless, everybody's arc is complete. Can ya just not be money-hungry fuckers for once and have some creative integrity, and just leave it at that? Westworld ends at season 1 in my mind, nothing else is canon because it's fucking stupid.

[@stoneymahoney9106]

I avidly watched the first season and knew I had just witnessed a masterpiece in terms of both writing and performance. When the second season came out, I just flat-out ignored it - if it was just as mind-blowing good as the first, it was pretty much inevitable that I'd hear about it. What actually happened? "S02E01 review - meh" followed by years of radio silence. That's all I needed to know. I didn't even know a season 3 existed until I spotted this video, and I shall continue to act like this really was a single season thing.

[@katiieeardley]

@@stoneymahoney9106 you've made the wise choice

[@Mahendra-bj6vy]

If they really wanted to expand beyond one season well they could do 2 more seasons but that's it....total 3 seasons-beginning,middle and end...I mean yea pretty sure 1st season would be best of course but like I said that if they wanted to expand, well 3rd season should somehow wrap it up satisfactorily (or else it would be waste of everyone's time) I started binging westworld from westworld season 1 to S03E03 thinking that 3rd season would be the last but nope but they wanted to do 5 seasons and for the life of me I can't for some reason dont want to abandon this show coz I really want to know what will happen in the end....

[@bleedingberryjuice]

So why is Jessie a war veteran? What war are they fighting in the future? WHY WOULD THEY SEND HUMANS TO WAR WHEN THEY HAVE ANDROIDS?!

[@Mahendra-bj6vy]

That would be a plot twist dont ya think?!?U know Jessie being a war veteran might mean something?!?!

[@Chordus_Gaius]

If they just bombarded the park. Everything would be okay.

[@tysam5867]

They nuked France, there was definitely a war.

[@BlackfyreHD]

Because Robohoam the giant black ball needs to send the people it can't predict to their deaths, I.e. In war

[@sivelllevis6755]

supercomputer controlling the world goes Brrrrrrr

[@mutatedgenome]

Agreed. It was bad and the rating say so. Down over 50% from the S2 premiere. America loves The Drinker!

[@Nloveru]

These days I like to think of GoT season 8, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Westworld season 2, just to remind me there are still worse things in this world than viruses.

[@bf945]

Yep, like Dr. Who.

[@moved2bitchute779]

Batwhaman

[@aetherblackbolt1301]

Corona chan: hold my beer

[@azmanabdula]

Whoever pointed this out was a genius "We used to argue over which was better, Star wars, or star trek, Now we cry like rape victims in the corner, huddling together, crying over what has become"

[@azmanabdula]

@Jack Scumbo Ghostbusters, Evil dead, what else

[@jporter504]

Anthony Hopkins was a big fan of Breaking Bad. Season 1 of West World the show and especially Hopkins achieved greatness on a level equal to that of Breaking Bad. Mission accomplished. Since then, oh well.

[@macmcleod1188]

Seriously.. what the hell happened to writers in Hollywood. They all went mental within the same 3 year period.

[@pointcuration1278]

Season 1 is a masterpiece. I didn't need another moment of the show after it.

[@jeremyboughtono2]

Nailed it. I loved the first season it was the best TV sc-fi I have ever seen.

[@dax7574]

Actually I would have loved for a spin off of the man in black fighting for his life from that point and trying to make it out alive. No moralism, no messages, just the man kicking ass.

[@pointcuration1278]

@@dax7574 that would have made for a hell of a one episode special

[@choseph1244]

Nerdrotic legit called you out as having the best analysis of the Dr. Who finale in all of KZbin...mad props you sardonically sophisticated double-shot of rye. Patreon subscribed my friend.

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

Nerdrotic, patreon, praising random "youtubers", lol we really deserve the corona virus, look at this fool

[@choseph1244]

my first "triggered" attention seeker. Best of luck with that video on your channel. Love your courageous picture too.

[@nebsnebsic5179]

No offence man, but Nerdrotic is, even though eloquent, a negative, hateful asshole and deserves no mention in the same context as the Drinker. I know they've cooperated, but honestly, I don't know why.

[@CrackaPackify]

*tips fedora*

[@danielarcher369]

@@nebsnebsic5179 me neither, nerdrotic is stuck in his bias ( narrative and/or raison d'être) , there is no way out for him....

[@MaxRovensky]

This show is just Person of Interest at this point, but with robots. Except Person of Interest did Person of Interest better

[@ea09]

Person of Interest was masterpiece.

[@andrewphillips8341]

and it had Bear!

[@omegaXwolf]

I am about to start person of interest is it good?

[@MaxRovensky]

@@omegaXwolf Yes. It's an extremely underrated show. First 2 seasons pick up a bit slow, but it's worth it in the end

[@patricklee5239]

The worst part is, this show was made by the same people as POI. Apparently you lose your creative abilities when you go woke, not just your profits.

[@Robbenklobber1989]

I rewatched season 1 the other week. I loved it so much. The second season I couldn't care less about, I didn't know why, but your video kinda points out why. The park was what drove my interest. How the characters were connected, how their days startet over and over again with just these little changes in their storyline. I was so intrigued how they managed to keep it all together whilest growing the consciousness of the robots. When the robots realized that they are only a playtoy for rich people it was so suttle and amazing, I couldn't stop thinking about it. Season 2 is like any other relativly good TV show, not bad, not good, just whatever. Season 1 is, what made me think, and care and stay in that thought.

[@altwasb]

The highly trained, highly resourced, and highly experienced security forces not knowing they were dealing with a non-human after the electrocution and then spending half an hour with her was too serendipitous.

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

That scene alone made me sick with cringe flu.

[@eXpriest]

You're living in a world where it's conceivable to have things like highly advanced cybernetics, subdermal armor and weapons, and all manner of integrated technologies, you think they'd have some sort o fuckin' cyborg detector.

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

@@eXpriest or just simply a metal detector like in every goddamn airport.

[@OurWoRLd319]

I don't even watch this show, I just enjoy hearing Drinker talk. 😎

[@Murad2804]

Strong independent single android mothers.

[@borjadetorres7747]

It’s funny because the vast majority of movies and tv shows that you criticize I have never seen them and I will never do, but your point are so good and so precise. Your love for narration so intense and on focus, that you are making me a better writer. Thank you. One day we’ll have a drink and talk.

[@GoBuckeyes554]

How many scenes did we need of Maeve and Delores coldly slaughtering people with no effort? I mean it just got boring and it made them stale characters.

[@normangaddy]

I can now outdraw them with My remote on fast forward.

[@CappyK]

I was thinking of this the other day. Have you seen the Punisher on Netflix? He's totally an Apex Predator can kill anyone, but he has limits. He gets absolutely smashed fighting more than he can handle. He's always limping from some wound or another. I think the Hollywood method for "femme fatale" characters is that they rip through enemies with no cost. You watch James Bond (definitely sexist movies mind you) and he gets messed up fighting henchmen. Takes straight punches to the face, almost gets choked out, cut and sliced and stabbed with knives. Don't get me wrong, they take it too far in these examples too. If you get punched in the skull in real life, your skull cracks and your brain will swell from the trauma. Dead bro. But these "strong" women types... it feels like they can't ever be hurt. When was the last movie you said that had a big fight scene with the female action lead and in the aftermath has her bandaged up and brutalised from her wounds and injuries? The ONLY thing I can think of is the new Tomb Raider games. It's not strength if it's easy. Strength is pushing through the pain, gritting your teeth and forcing your way through the odds.

[@snigie1]

Six

[@jomahawk7488]

Robert D you know, you’re right. In a movie like John Wick, he gets hurt In almost every single fight he’s a part of, just like Frank In Punisher. But I was seriously wracking my brain for a female lead movie where the female main character actually has lasting consequences from the fights she gets into. I couldn’t think of ANY. The best I could think of was the movie G.I. Jane; a VERY fictional movie about a woman who weighs 95 pounds drenched in water manages to join a SEAL Team. She DOES get the shit beat out of her...during her training. Her drill instructor beats her up like an abusive husband to “show her that the enemy won’t go easy on her”. But that’s it. After that, she never takes another hit point of damage.

[@SerMattzio]

It's a fascinating study actually of how characters degrade when they have no vulnerability. The Hosts were so compelling in the first season because although they were actually superior in many ways to humans, they were unfairly put in an extremely vulnerable position that they couldn't get out of. They spent almost the whole time suffering or being broken down. Now the tables have turned so far that they're just invincible and untouchable, and they've now just become assholes themselves. Because there is absolutely no frailty to them anymore.

[@WinstonfieldQPP]

The problem with Westworld is the same problem that cumbers most of the "Misery Porn" that masquerades as entertainment these days. The Misery Porn culture of Game of Thrones, and Walking Dead, and Westworld, and Picard, Doctor Who, and so much that comes out of the entertainment industry these days is entirely based on doing awful things to awful people. No one is good. Everything is miserable. Any peace is only a temporary illusion. There's nothing to aspire to. No one you can look up to. And nothing ultimately matters. And - my friends - that sort of stuff has a very very very Very VERY narrow spectrum of interest. It gets tiresome and repetitive very quickly, and soon paints itself into a narrative corner where there's nowhere left to go except to constantly make itself more grimy, more ugly, more miserable, and more awful. And no one wants to watch that for long.

[@eddierolmaster28]

Excellent answer

[@DavidNefelimSlayer]

Nihilism is boring. When encountered I'd just as soon watch the character 0-60 in 1 flat into a concrete wall. Because where there is misery there should be mercy.

[@lukakatunaricskaro]

Sounds more Grimdark than the actual W40K universe

[@Edax_Royeaux]

God, can you imagine how boring future shows will be now that the bad writers will all want to make coronavirus stories next?

[@DuggyDarko]

All I read was "Cucumber Misery Porn".

[@robbhahn8897]

This show is a perfect example of an interesting idea milked to the point of complete irrelevance. Should have stopped after Season 1.

[@Fridaey13txhOktober]

Once they got attention, they began pushing the agenda.

[@kukipett]

That's exactly what i think, when you have a wounded horse you put a bullet in his head!

[@TheChocohunter]

Then dont watch it lol for me season 3 is as good as season 1.

[@matthew1882]

@@TheChocohunter then keep watching it lol. For me season 3 is not as good as season 1.

[@puma59graciefighter]

@@Ieuan-kp5st I liked season 1 and 3. Season 2 not so much. Just hope they don't milk it beyond belief. 28 episodes was enough.

[@jlakely1]

You are right, Drinker. The producers abandoned the original vision, which had so much to explore in the park. They abandoned that for SJW box checking. Breaking Bad was five seasons, and it began with Walt's 50th birthday and ended with is 52nd. They got a lot of story into that frame, and also took their time to develop several characters. Pity that WW didn't decide to do that. It has so much promise.

[@BetaBuxDelux]

I couldn’t get through season 2, so I’m not even bothering with season 3.

[@moved2bitchute779]

Same

[@thecrimsonraven707]

I stopped at season one. I had a feeling it was going this route. Too bad.

[@quantumaxe6468]

Could not get through season 1, saw it coming a mile away.

[@everygamersdream72]

I must admit i watched season 3 ep 1, swore i wouldnt. Done now.

[@BetaBuxDelux]

Well It's The Big O How was it?

[@chucksenhowzen9740]

So the male antagonists got neutered/murdered while the female protagonists became immortal Mary Sues...sounds like the last season of GoT. Such a shame

[@chucksenhowzen9740]

EramSemperRecta hahahaha good one. As I mentioned above, all female protagonists. Including Thandie Newton

[@JakeBananas]

virtually every movie/tv show these days is this exact scenario playing out and its utterly predictable and boring.. i'm glad im not the only one taking notice

[@chucksenhowzen9740]

Jake I’m just thankful for the Drinker to call out the entertainment industry for wrecking most movies and TV shows

[@nont18411]

also The Rise of Skywalker and Marvel Cinematic Universe from this point on

[@TripleAgentX]

How the fuck is Dolores a protagonist? Stop projecting your narrative into everything you see. They are not Mary Sues, they are fucking robots, and the show wants to show how humanity is unready for such a technology. This is about the Singularity and how careless ethical programming would lead the AI to disregard human life and values.

[@sweetcyanidetea]

I watched the end of season 1 and loved it. SAw there was a season 2 and thought to myself "Nah, I'm good". I am so INCREDIBLY HAPPY about that decision now XD

[@sodalitia]

Just watched episode 5 and o boy it delivered...more material to rant about for Critical Drinker. The walking and endless exposition is staggering!

[@sodalitia]

@@Ieuan-kp5st At least I have a head to go some bulshit over. It wasn't good. It was pretentious and dumb. The villan is dumb and flat as a pancake. It's boring. No amount of lens flairs and switching lighting and music like on some fucked up disco, will chage the fact that the show suck and has no focus. Here is a plot: Dolores, the strong female character robot, liberated herself now is playing Jesus and "liberate" humans that didn't know are enslawed. There is a bunch of rookies, some other robots that god know what for needed in the plot, and there is a war veteran with a motivation and character depth of a puppy that faithfully follows his master female robot, because he is a dumb puppy and was rescued by a strong female character. Buha. He is so predictable and one-dimensional that we already know that his PTSD will trigger him to turn agianst his wamen at some point, because NO SHIT. The foreshadowing in this show is spelled for audience as if they were 5. It's fuckin boooooorin! THere is even no good SciFi. You can do anything with a fucking tablet in this universe! There is no limit or constrains of technology. Just fucking Deus Ex Machina moves and fucking plot armors on every step. There is no character development here. Characters are the tools to shove the mediocre story up the fanboys asses!

[@darksidemachining]

"The more people you have involved in a criminal undertaking the more chance it has of being compromised"... Star Trek OS: "first rule of assassination is kill the assassins."

[@NinjavomWolfstor]

"premature cancellation" is something you won`t see... just look at Batwoman ^^

[@45jacky41]

@@jeffboon9125 never happen. Disney owns fox and marvel. Batwoman is DC property.

[@drlee2]

That's because the CW doesn't cancel anything.

[@rafaelsantosx]

@@drlee2 To be fair, they cancelled at least 2 Supernatural spin-offs projects.

[@GjVj]

I'm hopin Batwahmen never gets cancelled. Never actually watched an episode, and never, ever will, but the EFAP deconstructions are fucking gold. The retardation in that show has to be seen to be believed, and it is hilarious. :)

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

Add Thundercats Roar to that list.

[@pangyre]

Dude, I didn’t even make it past episode one of season two. Good on you for taking one for the team.

[@Jdizzlefreeone]

Lol well this is super Interesting to me(the hate on this channel). I'm loving this season.

[@broland1655]

this guys channel is mostly negative critical reviews, never positive ones, if you even want to call them reviews

[@Jdizzlefreeone]

@@broland1655 I get it but... In a world where humans are mostly incapable of critical thinking his sense of humour is mostly missed. Just look at how toxic the comment section is

[@aredjayc2858]

@@broland1655 He has a bunch of positive reviews called "the drinker recommends"

[@madhands9887]

It's so stupid. They created an alternate world to fit in delores and the story makes 0 sense. None of the things the characters are doing are plausible. She is going up against a trillion who owns all they technology and she shooting up parties in broad day walking into banks and then escaping in a world where everything is digital. Okay they made a god out computers and linked the whole world to it. What?? It makes no damn sense. The whole world it created is like a bunch of conspiracy theories on crack rock. 2 brothers with 0 family and dollars create what?? They just game of thrones the series.

[@Jdizzlefreeone]

@@madhands9887 Pretty sure it's not supposed to make sense yet. Comparing it to GOT is just silly though. Even if the next three episodes don't pay off it will be a fail in a completely different way.

[@SafetyBriefer]

FFS, how did they knock out Delores when she’s an Android like she was a person? Jesus.

[@darthkek1953]

She was playing, she let him creep up on her she let him zzap her. It was her plan so she could get the Chibs reboot into place.

[@clearsmashdrop5829]

I assumed it was an act on her part. Although a dangerous one cause they could have capped her before she reacted.

[@darthkek1953]

​@@clearsmashdrop5829 presumably she'd already done due diligence on their methods. Remember she'd been seen - A LOT - with the son-of-boss guy. She gets shot, dropped into an ocean from a height, etc., that might draw attention. She floozies out on dope, not so much.

[@Kamina1703]

Lazy writing.

[@thac0twenty377]

@@darthkek1953 chibs reboot hahahaha

[@andrewwiggin7433]

I gave up on Westworld early in season 2. What a disaster. It's not getting another chance.

[@MichaelPohoreski]

Andrew Wiggin Yup, bailed after S2E1 .. thankfully there is enough other good Sci-Fi to watch .. The Expanse, Altered Carbon, etc.

[@zabban]

@@MichaelPohoreski can u mention some others i'm always looking for more

[@trippybruh1592]

Haha same here like 3rd episode in I paused it to take a shit and never resumed it.

[@MichaelPohoreski]

@claudio reshs Sure but one of the problem is that retarded SyFy channel keeps canceling the good stuff! These may not be your cup of tea but I have enjoyed the following: Normally I **hate** time travel in Sci-Fi for a few reasons ... a) every one fucks it up, and b) lazy writing over-uses it as a Deus Ex Machina ... but the TV series _Continuum_ (2012) with Rachel Nichols and Victor Webster was the first time I actually liked how they wove it into the story. The first few episodes started slow but was it really enjoyable. www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347/ _Dark Matter_ (2015) was good. www.imdb.com/title/tt4159076/ I've only seen a few episodes of _Killjoys_ but it seemed fun. www.imdb.com/title/tt3952222/ If you love ST:TNG then you'll love "Seth Trek", aka _The Orville_ _Black Mirror_ is great. The 1st season of _Stranger Things_ was good. Don't waste your time with S2 or S3 -- they were shit. _Rick and Morty_ is fucking fantastic! _Gantz: O_ was decent _Final Space_ is good. _Lost in Space_ (2018) is nothing special but I guarantee you will LOVE to HATE Parker Posey playing Dr. Smith -- a perfect antagonist! Enjoy!

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

I stopped after the "shogun world". Had big expectations as a fan of japanese culture, but the show dropped the ball pretty hard. Insulting, dumping exposition about how the storylines are the same, etc.. As a bonus, Maeve... Man, such a bad character, the actress is horrible. The whole theme about the character is how she have overwhelming charisma and intelligence... where? She was never convincing in the first season, in the second one she gets even worse. People like to talk shit about Dolores and etc.. but at least in the acting department she stayed solid. The highs and lows regarding acting in this series is really something bizarre, in one hand you have Bernard with a great performance, but in the other hand you have Nessa Thompson acting like a zombie, etc Teddy's actor is incredibly shitty (on purpose or not), they have to make scenes featuring him and Hopkins, lol

[@zizoumonk10]

Does Dolores have a battery? How does she charge herself? If everyone in the real world knows about Westworld, why are they shocked at the possibility of androids among them? Are they illegal in the real world? Are there any sympathetic characters left in the show? Who is the protagonist? Do they expect us to believe that Jesse Pinkman was once a soldier? Apart from those minor questions, I do give the creators of the show props for at least coming up with some interesting ideas of what a future world might look like which is more than I can say for the creators of ST: Picard.

[@MetalGamer666]

I found it odd that then went back to old fashion tooth brushes and ATM machines in the future, though. Even today nobody uses cash for anything in a lot of countries. And shouldn't the real world call the Blade Runners as soon as they learned about the massacre at the theme park? Surely they would expect some of the replicants to escape the park. And if they didn't change their appearance, which many of them did not, surely the future has facial recognition software that would quickly identify the replicants if they showed up in public places.

[@Fridaey13txhOktober]

Idea here, according to mainstream society, to the experts, it's impossible to do. Only conspiracy theorists believes androids to be possible and those tend to face consequences for voicing their concerns on the ground that they are dangerous crazies. They get institutionalized or get their banks accounts shut down an so on. In reality, a great number of androids are already around, albeit non-sentient. In underground bases overseen by something akin to the CIA and MI6, robot armies are being tested and built to take over society through outright force.

[@kukipett]

She has a microfusion reactor cell in her butt, it can last for centuries! Seriously, don't ask those questions they are embarassing, all the technology those androids are based on is ridiculous, they can be killed in one shot when the show needs it but they can get shot by a whole army without major damage when it needs it too. By the way the basic plot of making robots that must cost millions to get shot by human assholes don't make sense. If the show explained that shots were faked and that androids simulated death by releasing blood and were just cleaned after the show it would be ok. And also the fact that you place humans with guns that get drunk and shoot everywhere and nobody ever makes a mistake and kill another human is also stupid. And those guns with magic bullets that kill only robots doesn't make sense either. So you see if you start asking questions, you end up in a nightmare of bullshit!

[@MetalGamer666]

@@kukipett They explained why the bullets don't hurt humans, though.

[@kukipett]

@@MetalGamer666 Thta's just magical bullshit, but it's a fiction so you better not think about this and enjoy the show!

[@bloodrunsclear]

Poor Bernard. The writers remembered that, even if he is black, he’s also a lousy MAN

[@gaffegiraffe6969]

After season 2 I'm not surprised!

[@NZAnimeManga]

Same, have no desire to watch any more after that car-crash...

[@brainrich1358]

Maybe the show should've just stayed a mini series.

[@bindoctrinated3147]

God damn, I feel like an single cell organism for not catching on to 99% of the shit you pointed out. I'm just a drone consuming mindless content to distract me from the shit my daily life has become. Bravo!

[@DD-gi6kx]

great video, I laughed so many times watching this. I went from loving season 1 to stopping half way through S3 E1, so found your assessment dead on

[@theanimeslayer3999]

This episode was boring and a contrived mess. Filled with more nihilism than Picard, with the same attitude of strong women emasculating every man. Every character was dull, uncharismatic and unsavory. What a mess and I expect it to get worse!

[@esyphillis101]

Nihilism? How was it nihilistic?

[@snigie1]

Honestly, who do they thinks just absolutely loving this whole strong women beating weak men idea? Because they sure ain't watching TV or movies looking at the ticket sales.

[@queenbee2769]

fuck you reminded me that picard was a thing. honestly can't wait to forget about it happening

[@Revan-eb1wb]

well , the show tries to be cyberpunk and cyberpunk is depressing. So I kind of have to disagree a bit with the nihilist part

[@whitepenny64able]

Is see you are a fan of berserk have a upvote friend. I think everyone should read it.

[@redryder7521]

"Nah, it'll be fine." Lol not this time. The original movie was good, and the first season of the show was good. Should have ended there.

[@OpusBuddly]

Can I just watch season 1 as a stand alone series or does it leave a bunch of unanswered questions?

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Opus Buddly nah just watch the first season. The theorizing on how machine life comes about is compelling enough. You don’t need all the answers. The questions are what’s interesting. Season 1 is wrapped up well and you can use your imagination to continue it. I promise.

[@DuggyDarko]

The first half of the first season was fine. The second half slowly tailed off as more of the mysteries went nowhere or came to an unsatisfactory conclusion.

[@Makitaization]

I only saw the first season and liked it a lot. Then I heard about the 2nd season and never checked it out. I like the theme music though.

[@jacknewton2148]

The sequel to the original movie was good, aside from the characters spending most of their time in maintenance tunnels to conserve set budget

[@charleszaman7666]

I was so stoked to see all the other parks, how they interacted and all the right scenery. I never gave a shit what was outside the parks.

[@winterman8248]

me too

[@gscraggster6553]

Dude, you made my day, please do Episode 03, it was just shocking and deserves your undivided attention once more.

[@immikeurnot]

What? The phone app is called "RICO"? That's an American law; the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Too on the nose.

[@raijinwolf2248]

I'm just so sick of the only "strong women" in anything these days needing to have suffered at the hands of a man, which results in the same boring "emotionless badass" archetype.

[@hannibalmcl8994]

Until she's caused him a horrible, violent end, at which point she stares straight into the camera doing a dead-eyed, satanic smile.

[@viscountrainbows6452]

These writers need to read Ursula K. Le Guin if they want any ideas on how to properly write women's liberation in sci-fi without it being some heavy-handed treatise.

[@Zapp__Brannigan]

The "Strong, Empowered, Baddass Woman" character is *pervasive* in entertainment today. You can't escape it. I'm working my way through The Expanse, which is admittedly a pretty good show, but the SEBW quotient is really making it hard for me to like it. It seems like every time the story starts ramping up and getting interesting, it cuts to some scene of Chrisjen being insufferably bitchy and patronizing to a (White) man, Bobbie Draper effortlessly beating up two huge men (as if the Marines don't have to maintain a completely separate set of standards for women in Basic), or Reverend DOCTOR (her actual title) Volvodov talking down to some silly, backward (White) man about how he and all men are just mindless warmongers who need a good kick in ass from a strong (lesbian) woman to keep them in line. Oh and the conniving bad guy in the Earth government? A (White) man. Shocker. Fuck, what I wouldn't give to have a show written by men for men, completely free of this bullshit.

[@anthonywarren9885]

She's a robot dummy.

[@Raximus3000]

@@Zapp__Brannigan Try Garo or any other asian made show, the chances of finding that bs is almost zero, lol.

[@blackbird8837]

Actually I liked season 2. It's hella confusing, and I agree with the critics that the confusion mostly seems to be serving the purpose of confusing the audience rather than actually benefiting the story that being said it is still enjoyable.. The story was gripping, made sense to where things were left off, drew from the backstory of Arnold and Ford, as well as the dark intentions of the whole Delos empire... I also did care for the sidecharacters and if you rewatch it, it did make a lot of sense as well as tackle important philosophical and ethical questions... plus we get yet again some more screen time with Anthony Hopkins which clearly carried the show to brilliance... Where's his oscar for his performance by the way... Season 3 of WW however seems to be evolving into the season 8 of GoT. I hope they can come up with something good asap..

[@TheChocohunter]

Ep 4 of this season was one of the best of this show. Its just popular to hate it. Got s8 was therrible tho

[@blackbird8837]

@@TheChocohunter This comment was pre Ep4... I am watching EP4 right... now...fingers crossed.

[@TheChocohunter]

@@blackbird8837 how was it?

[@blackbird8837]

@@TheChocohunter better than the ones before, but not great to be honest. And E5 was probably the worst so far. it's just not living up the the previous seasons so far in my humble opinion.

[@TheChocohunter]

@@blackbird8837 yeah ep5 was lame but ep 6 was very epic

[@shaneilogo2100]

"Premature Cancellation." Drinker, you are a psychic! 👍

[@davidagiel8130]

The fact is Westworld isn’t the same without Anthony Hopkins.

[@haydeng3316]

There has been like one episode without Anthony Hopkins, dude. And season 2 was shit despite him being in it

[@androth1502]

or without westworld.

[@johnelliott7850]

...Or Yul Brynner.

[@Yusuke_Denton]

@@asimhussain8716 S2 focused on that, so you might like it, but they completely dropped the ball on a realistic and satisfying conclusion.

[@lezlezman1843]

Mr Hopkins is enough of a pro to know when to get off a sinking ship. [edit] I just remembered...in the case of HMS Bounty, he was thrown off!

[@Nebulous_Neuhaus]

Formula: >take an established IP (aka idea that was not originally made by you) >make super riveting and critically acclaimed first series with some non-distracting and "organic" diversity (aka wokeness) on the side; anybody complaining about wokeness would be told that they're overreacting, perhaps justifiably so. >rake in the moolah. Leftist handlers surge in confidence without it ever occurring to them that there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. >series two suddenly has escalating wokeness. Retained watchers are either converted or are befuddled in the tonal shift. ("I still like but is such a Mary Sue, wtf happened to her?") >series three premieres to burnout and wokeness more than ever. Watchers leave in droves. >show persists to occupy primetime slot until the next critically acclaimed darling comes along, upon which it is abruptly cancelled. Rinse. Repeat.

[@pliskenmovie]

Or said another way. 1. take respected institution, 2. Kill it/clean it, 3. wear it as a skin suit, demanding respect. twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/735467109979848709

[@truestory2990]

It’s called «Long March Through The Institutions”, invented by an Italian communist Antonio Gramsci

[@NotQuiteFirst]

Godwin's law also applies. Everything must gravitate towards featuring the Nazis in some way. Westworld now features them directly. First Order Hux speech from The Force Awakens was direct and blatant nazi imagery. Similar with Danaerys turning to crazed genocidal maniac in the end of GoT. New series Hunters. Watchmen series about white racists. Probably a load more I have forgotten about. In case nobody got the hint: *white man bad*

[@Nebulous_Neuhaus]

@@NotQuiteFirst Nazis all the way down.

[@szymonsobczak2307]

man, S1 was a 11/10 which has become very rare as I get older. The biggest plot twist was how they massacred S2 &3. Don't think anyone saw that one coming. That gotta count for something, eh?

[@DannyBoy-jy1kq]

Gave up on this on the first episode of series 2. Your rants will save me the trouble even in lockdown. 100%more entertaining

[@Philistine47]

I have to disagree with The Drinker on one point: "premature" cancellation is not in Westworld's future. That's because any "premature" cancellation could only have come prior to the end of Season 1. To elaborate further, a "timely" cancellation would have to have come when HBO discovered that the writers had *no* idea where to go and what to do in the wake of the S1 finale and were just splattering explosive diarrhea against the wall to see what stuck; the window for "overdue" cancellation closed after the trainwreck that was S2 finished airing; and the best the show can hope for now is a mercy killing.

[@dunderminnet]

Plottwist: The future-world is actually a park too, there are no real humans they're all androids. Real humans went extinct so aliens created the parks as a way to find out why humans died out. Calling it.

[@DJdext]

That would go along with what the guy said about it being a simulation and tie into the end credit scene in season 2.

[@seed4suffering13]

Well the sequel to the original Westworld was FutureWorld so it wouldn't be surprising.

[@BigDaddy_MRI]

Sounds legit. SOLD!!

[@TheNthMouse]

That is far too clever for the writers of WestWorld S2-3.

[@MrSmithwayne]

the moment he said..." and somehow you go in to denial and lie to yourself thinking its actually good " that was exactly what I thought about season 2 but never quite admitted it to myself because after the disaster that was season 8 ending of GoT I thought, season 2 of this is actually pretty good. Thanks for the wake up!

[@mosespray4510]

Fate of primary characters in Westworld, season two: Dr. Ford: brought back to life and killed again. Too expensive. Bernard: stripped of all self will. Too introspective and thoughtful. Spared by superior moral compass of Delores. Delores: stripped of all humanity (of which she was the embodiment). Not kick-ass enough in season one. Teddy: suicide. Good men are weak pussies. Man in Black: humiliated and killed, wash and repeat. Too alpha, too white, and too morally gray. Maeve: stripped of all depth. Too vulnerable in season one. Armistice: sidelined. You're obsolete. We have Delores now. Clementine: transformed into crazy bitch. Too likable and too traditionally feminine. Lee: died a good death, but still dead. Singles bar creep; deserved it. Hector: who are you again? Too strong; too hetero. Are you still here? Logan Delos: see Teddy.

[@ilasoiaf]

Who's Delores

[@mosespray4510]

Rod 1022 My mistake. Dolores.

[@biffbamboo]

Looks like Westworld needed a third season like Star Wars needed a third trilogy.

[@Megatron_95]

I've been looking forward this. And good timing too since I started to have my rum and Dr. Pepper drink

[@Wizastudios]

Did you expect a BAD ROBOT series to actually have a plan? Didn't we learn from LOST. Also films such as Cloverfield, Star Trek and of course Star Wars.

[@sail253]

I was trying to think what would have made a good season 2 instead of what they did. I think if there were good robots and bad robots fighting each other within the park that would have been really good, good robots sticking up to bad

[@weirdflex271]

He was spot on with Jessie becoming a little puppy on a leash. They just used him cause we’re all a fan of Breaking Bad and wanted to see more after so little from El Camino.

[@tricivenola8164]

Breaking Bad knew when to end. That's why we want to see more.

[@chaosspartan4417]

Season 1 is great on its own. Anything after is your typical robot rebellion.

[@eddiegaltek]

The problem with no women going to Westworld and being violent psychopaths to the male Hosts is that every woman who has anything to do with this show would do exactly that if Westworld actually existed.

[@happinesstan]

Yeah, but the male hosts wouldn't revolt. Result? No TV show.

[@hollymart1]

"Squat in the bathtub and let'er rip" I near pissed my self on that one😳

[@chrisf1600]

I gave up on this one at the end of the first season. An interesting premise, but by the end I got the feeling that the writers were just trying to string it out as long as they could because they didn't have a clue how to end the story. Basically just Lost with cowboys, but much less memorable characters.

[@gwem1979]

Dolores reminds me of brie larson so it puts me right off. Season 1 was good but as you say season 2 was a mess. Only just started season 3 but hopes are not high

[@rob_3417]

The actor playing her is exactly like brie Larsson in real life. A pain in the head , everything is the white man's fault

[@clarencebeeks1528]

Spot on assessment. I was wondering why the actress supremely pissed me off. It's the Larson factor.

[@TimoCruz177]

except Brie Larson is plank of wood. This actress is pretty fucking amazing, season 1 of WW can prove this, sometimes its not the Actor's fault his character is boring. also, can't comment on her irl personality cuz I don't even know her name

[@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet]

She reminds me of Tasha Yar.

[@pro-seriesfabrication3810]

@@rob_3417 For sure, just read her Twitter feed

[@Evghenios79]

When the review is better and more entertaining than the episode/movie...

[@berjaboy]

I can't agree more! Season one was great, season two then turned into a complete mess and I was done. The writers/producers almost seemed to purposely turn it into a confusing, disjointed pile of crap so they can say; Oh you just couldn't keep up or didn't understand it as a way to excuse their incompetence of making a good show.

[@matthewnodar7298]

I like to believe that the season 1 finale was the real end of the show and that it was left intentionally ambiguous.

[@simonpotter7534]

Critical Drinker: The reviewer who watches the dross so that I don't have to while risking his fragile sanity and liver. While at the same time, his review is like a rose growing out of steaming pile of bull crap and is more entertaining than the 'original' show. More power to you matey, if you live that long.

[@johnvannewhouse]

Teddy was the potential Christlike figure that could have sparked a resurgent narrative in season 2. But he was so miserable in that unbelievably inchoate plotline that he elected to just kill himself. Even JESUS wouldn't have had the fortitude to stick it out in the second season of Westword!!

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

Second season? I think he would've bailed out after reading the scripts!

[@lalboimanlun1230]

Well. Im glad I lost interest after the first season and never see the 2nd season.

[@wach9191]

He knew series are going to shit and killed himself.

[@kenjidev576]

He should have tried to stop the war efforts. Dolores should have behaved much like him while charlote should have driven the war efforts. Internal conflict.

[@malfy8369]

Enjoying the show but I still appreciated the review keeping me laughing in lock down.

[@Laxhoop]

All the robots have done nothing but run around and murder or maim humans, since they became sentient. You’d almost think this show’s main message was that AI is to be avoided at all costs, but no, the writers just legitimately haven’t thought about how that’s an implication of what they’ve written.

[@jeremyboughtono2]

I can't believe anyone still watches this after the appalling second series.

[@vlada]

I've heard this so many times since Heroes !!!

[@suburbanhermit1]

Ratings went down i think 40%. No one is watching this anymore than they watched Watchmen.

[@neansath]

I was trying to convince myself that Season 2 will get better as the episode goes on... I shouldn't have bothered. I remembered religiously watching the series in hopes of some decent pay-off. But in hindsight, S1 on its own is a decent ending. It makes you wonder what will happen next without the disappointing S2.

[@RealIllumin]

@@vlada Since Buck Rogers really...

[@AManCalledDutch]

Didn’t even make it through the 2nd episode of that series before I gave up - awful

[@JinzoTK]

Westworld's biggest appeal for me was a park where human's could indulge their darkest desires with no repercussions. I dropped it Season 2 Episode 1. Without having watched the later seasons, my impressions are they became revenge stories against the patriarchy. YOU GO GIRLS! I'm over it.

[@jasonu3741]

It was Basically Grand Theft Auto: The Television show, with a plot twist that the civilians you run over are actually attaining some sort of self awareness and consciousness. Television Producers need to understand there product the show has outlived its purpose at this point. Similar to The Walking Dead once you outlive the Initial shock and aftermath of the Zombie apocalypse the show should have ended.

[@hecanseeme8210]

“He did it come to this?” T.D.S and the message are paramount! All things serve the message.

[@neillcaiger7714]

Great, funny review, as always -and tx for saving me the bother and pain of trying season 3 out! More time to watch the expanse! cheers

[@GeekRaj]

Expanse, I couldn't watch it after 5 minutes into episode 1.

[@manofsan]

Maybe Westworld would have been better as a mini-series

[@Uppernorwood976]

In hindsight ending it after S1 would have been perfect. They were never going to top that Anthony Hopkins performance in the final episode anyway.

[@dansu01]

Short movie you mean

[@AUNKNOWN80]

Uppernorwood Anthony Hopkins is legend but I couldn’t care less about his performance in S1 finale , you know why because there were so many amazing performances

[@FreefallSC]

It is. Only season 1 counts if you forget about the other one and don't finish watching this season. I got through a bit of episode 2, was falling asleep like 15 or 20 minutes in and was done with it after that.

@@dansu01 Like… that movie this show was based on? ;-)

[@BbNaB]

"People will indulge in their worst desires when faced with no repercussions" Oh, like almost all women do in real life?

[@jeremyboughtono2]

Only in the west. Everywhere else they would get a slapping.

[@HerrHoppenstedt]

Who hurt you?

[@Haterator]

@@HerrHoppenstedt His wife.

[@HGBMD]

wife? He wishes , he spanks himself

[@thepunchableface1506]

Someone needs to get out more.

[@jonathanclarke4529]

It makes me so happy when you love all my favourite stuff from the 80s. Now I use you as a barometer for what to/what not to watch.

[@The__Wanderer.]

Only thing left to appreciate, is the orchestral covers.

[@mawnkey]

Just in case anyone is still in doubt at this point: no, there's no such thing as good feminist writing.

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

Well, Fury Road was allright. Ironically or not, considering the plot in that movie is incredibly simple.

[@RosieJonesRules]

What about Aliens and T2? (both, coincidentally, directed by Cameron!)

[@jmadden50]

@@RosieJonesRules Yes, and look how long ago that was. That's why we old farts refer to that time as, "The good old days". Hell, I was a feminist in the 70s. We all were.

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

@@RosieJonesRules to be fair, Ripley is an assexual character at the start. Later the franchise focus on the maternal side of things and etc.. Same goes for terminator, start as a damsel in distress, ends as the protective mother. Again, simple themes. I believe that's the answer, you don't need to over complicate things just to send a message, also there's no reason to smudge that message in our faces.

[@makara80]

"What about Aliens and T2? (both, coincidentally, directed by Cameron!)" What about them? Neither are 'feminist' simply because they happen to have a competent female lead/major character you know!

[@glorysake]

Westworld,behind Heroes had the greatest first season in a series I had ever seen. What could have been SMFH

[@israelcontreras5332]

Thanks Drinker! It is always good to see when getting out of a show was a good decision.

[@Davez621]

Couldn't agree more about the "crime app" on the phone. That would last all of about 2 days before being taken down by law enforcement.

[@StayFractalesque]

right. just like Bitcoin lasted about the same time period before being taken out by the financial powers that be

[@Davez621]

@@StayFractalesque Not a valid analogy. Bitcoin isn't illegal.

[@michaelmartycpa9991]

that social justice warrior remark had me rolling. You have a way with words, drinker. I wish I had 1/2 your drunken charisma.

[@seankim2743]

"These violent delights have violent ends" - Friar Lawrence (Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scene 6)

[@StraboSE]

THAT WAA WRITTEN BY A WHITE MALE THO!

[@pr05p3ro]

Season 1 was awesome. That's a shame this show was closed after just one season.