Westworld: 10 Biggest Twists - Ranked Worst To Best
6. William Is The Man In Black
Episode: 10 - The Bicameral Mind
Shock Factor: 2/5 bullets
Damn, Westworld, you were so close to perfection. Reddit, Google, and even the work water coolers were rife with Man in Black rumors. It wasn't exactly shocking when William and the Man in Black were revealed to be one and the same. The problem is if William hadn't turned out to be the Man in Black we would have been equally annoyed. If the reveal had happened a few episodes before, a'la Theresa's death, we would all have loved it.
Sadly, by the time the twisting and turning finale came around, no one really cared that William was MIB, it had been called too many times before. Secondly, it didn't fit the character. Happy, smiley, Jimmi Simpson seems unable to become the grizzled Ed Harris. The episodes tried to evolve Simpson into a badass gunslinger, but even after 30 years of hating Westworld, William being MIB was a bitter pill to swallow.