Westworld Season 2: 12 Stupid Blunders That Completely Ruined It
4. It Lacks A Real Purpose
Westworld, with its ridiculously convoluted narrative structures and layered plots, needs a lot of attention and investment to keep up with it. There's nothing wrong with that and if you do your homework, you'll be able to keep up fine. There's just one problem: what's the point?
What do we gain from watching Westworld? What does it tell us? What does it do? The answer: f**k all.
None of the plot strands involving the main characters lead anywhere meaningful and they just go round and round and round in circles endlessly.
It doesn't tell us anything meaningful, most of the characters are nothing more than motifs (the Man in Black represents human darkness, John Ford represents man playing god etc.) and all it really does is emphasize how hard done by the hosts are over and over again.
Essentially, this entire season is a bunch of haywire plot threads going from one twist to the next without any particular narrative spine or a clear goal in sight. At least the first season felt like it was going somewhere.