Westworld Season 2 Review: 10 Spoiler-Free Reactions To The First Five Episodes
3. But It Isn't Trying Really To Trick Us
Season 1 was deliberately confusing at times, using its non-linear storyline to obfuscate the truth about who characters are or where they were in the timeline.
The show does still use its different timelines here, but does so in a way that feels much more organic to the narrative, rather than a means to an end (that end being the big plot twists). The multiple timelines are just presented as fact, and the show actually goes out of its way to connect the dots between them this time, rather than trying to hide it.
There are of course still mysteries that will supply the internet with plenty of theory fodder, but there's no Rickrolling here (at least not yet, anyway), and the show's storytelling is largely better as a result.
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