Hypebeasts make shitty storytellers
Watching WESTWORLD like being told a really cool story by an overly excitable teenager. They know theyāve got a cool ending. Theyāre trying to be coy about it, so they can enjoy the anticipation for as long as possible, but are unable to finish a sentence without smirking.Ā What results may, in fact, be cool, but it never feels like a story. At least not one that ever allows the audience to lose itself in the world theyāre creating. The performances are all great, as are the production values and FXās, but we never stop crafting theories about what might all mean.Ā I like a good mystery box as much as the next guy.Ā WESTWORLD just feels like it loves its mysteries so much they forget why weāre here in the first place.
Donāt get me wrong: the latest season has been a blast. Cyberpunk Jesse Pinkman plus a sexy Terminator lady is a winning combination in my book.Ā Plus, Vincent Gallo is creepy as fuck. I just find myself giving less of a damn the longer it goes. I canāt help but wonder how much cooler it would be if they quit dancing around their own cleverness and just told a more linear story.Ā Plus, they still donāt know what to do with Maeve















