Westworld Season 2: 12 Stupid Blunders That Completely Ruined It

11. It's Just So Stupid

Westworld Season 2 Ed Harris
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Westworld is one of the stupidest programs on television. It's so stupid it makes I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! look intellectual in comparison. Season two has been utterly ludicrous and over-the-top from start to finish, but what makes all of this especially jarring is that the show seems to think its clever and profound.

Think about it: we're talking about a show in which Maeve is suddenly able to control all the other hosts for no apparent reason, a show in which a man turns into a psychopath just because a robot from 30 years ago doesn't remember him and also a show which contains... whatever the hell that preposterous Forge thing was. It delivers ludicrous twist after ludicrous twist in a ridiculously over-the-top manner; in what way can this be seen as a clever show?

Westworld is nowhere near as clever as it thinks it is and the way in which it's both staggeringly pretentious and utterly preposterous confirms it as one of the most insufferable shows on television.

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