He has little to lose and a lot to gain, so he makes a far more interesting partner in crime for Maeve. Felix is invested in smashing the status quo, or at least finding a way to lift himself out of it. Each of those characters exudes authority - an interest in maintaining the status quo, even if each also has interests that compete with the status quo.
If it were Bernard or Ford or Elsie having these interactions with Maeve, the stakes would feel lower. It’s also in part due to the sudden emergence of Felix as an important character. This is in part because of the big leap that the Maeve makes - with the writers sticking the landing - from being troubled by a growing unease to diving headlong into a new reality. There’s an urgency to the Felix-Maeve scenes that the show has not given us before now.
With said memories, she is happy to get herself killed so she can spend more time talking to Felix, who, with his bigger-things aspirations, is ripe for a caper. The revelations are big - she now appears to remember much of what happens when she is being repaired. Easter eggs lurk in the shadows.įirst Maeve. Storylines move at a surprising clip and tease mysteries without being confusing. Everything that follows is what the dogged viewer has likely imagined an ideal episode of “Westworld” to be - something not unlike an ideal episode of “Lost.” Characters are appealing and darkly funny. There’s nothing to be afraid of.”īut that is where quibbles with “The Adversary” end. Whenever “Westworld” - or “Game of Thrones,” or “The Walking Dead,” or any other show - does something like this, remember the words of Walter Sobchak: “No, Donny, these men are nihilists. After some office chitchat with the bartender and Angela Sarafyan’s still unnamed prostitute (she has a name on iMDB, but it’s apparently not worth saying out loud on the show), Maeve coaxes a guest upstairs, then coaxes him to choke her to death mid-coitus. It’s at the brothel where this episode drifts toward the show’s worst impulses. She’s walking like a guest - taking for granted much of what’s going on around her. (This was the first Dolores-free episode, underlining the trend that Maeve-heavy episodes are Dolores-light and vice versa.) We can tell by the way Maeve walks to the brothel that something is up. We open with Maeve in the shot we’re so used to seeing Dolores in, lying on the bed in the sunlight, face up. That said, “The Adversary” did not lead with greatness. Although, they do finally pash.On Sunday night, “Westworld” delivered its first great episode of television. I’m not really sure why because he mainly just spends his time asking her is she is okay and commenting on the fact she talks to herself.
While she is in Pariah, she discovers she can create her own coding when required and manages to shoot a whole heap of hosts in order to save William.
Lawrence (Clifton Collins Jr.) seems to pique her interest but he doesn’t really bite at her bait, so maybe she will have to unleash the virus coding in the next episode of Westworld. Logan and William also work for a company that are interested in buying out Westworld. We know they know each other outside Westworld, but we discover in Episode 5 that Logan thinks William is a sorry excuse for an employee. But, during all of this, the relationship between William and Logan is explored. Mostly, there is talk between warring factions and the occasional shoot out when double-crossing is exposed. But, while we are there, let’s talk about the mission William (Jimmi Simpson) and the reluctant Logan (Ben Barnes) are on.