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- If one is stuck in a loop, try walking in a straight line.
- 2. The Winter Line Mar 22, 2020
- People put up a lot of walls.
- 3. The Absence of Field Mar 29, 2020
- Some do not like what they see in the mirror but shouldn't blame the mirror.
- 4. The Mother of Exiles Apr 5, 2020
- The truth doesn't always set one free.
- 5. Genre Apr 12, 2020
- Just saying no.
- 6. Decoherence Apr 19, 2020
- Therapy.
- 7. Passed Pawn Apr 26, 2020
- A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- 8. Crisis Theory May 3, 2020
- Time to face the music.
Mar 16, 2020 · Breaking down what just happened in the Westworld Season 3, episode 1: 'Parce Domine' on HBO.
- Westworld brings itself back online with a few upgrades.
- Westworld Season 3 Images
- Verdict
By Calum Marsh
Updated: May 28, 2021 5:45 pm
Posted: Mar 16, 2020 2:07 am
This review contains spoilers for Westworld Season 3, episode 1, "Parce Domine," including the premiere's post-credits scene.
Part of IGN's Westworld Season 3 guide
The third season of HBO’s Westworld represents such a drastic change that its first episode feels less like a premiere than a pilot. It introduces interesting new characters whose lives, at least initially, have almost nothing whatsoever to do with the events of the show’s first and second seasons. It abandons the remote theme parks that were its self-contained setting, instead taking place in a near-future Los Angeles that is breathtakingly well-realized. And, most crucially, while it continues to pose serious questions about how technology and humanity intersect, it poses them more briskly and energetically than ever before. Less brooding, more moving — this is Westworld Season 3.
We do get a brief glimpse of the park, in a post-credits stinger. But it isn’t Westworld. It’s what’s being referred to as War World, and it’s a recreation of a Nazi-occupied village during World War II. There we find Maeve, as bewildered as we are. Whether War World will remain a major location as the series develops, or whether she will leave shortly to join Dolores et al in Los Angeles, is hard to say. On the one hand, Charlotte Hale (or whomever is occupying Hale’s reconstructed host body) insists to a boardroom of Delos execs that the company’s theme parks should continue operating despite the bad press entrained by the mass murders, so it makes sense that the parks will play a role. On the other hand, War World seems a bit silly, and I hope the action mainly unfolds in California.
Of course, for all the strides the show has made in fascinating new directions, this is still Westworld, and there is reason to be skeptical of change. The series has never had a hard time with intrigue — its best quality has always been the suggestion of tantalizing depths, and its worst quality has been its refusal to properly explore them. What’s promising about the Season 3 premiere is the newfound emphasis on the fundamentals. The series has never looked better; the premiere is a marvel of lighting and art direction. The fight scene toward the end of the episode, in which Dolores annihilates her kidnappers in an extended one-take that pans between the view out of a car window and that same car’s rear-facing video screen, is beautifully choreographed and superbly well-directed, on the level of a top-tier action film. If as the season proceeds the mysteries don’t pan out or totally gratify, there’s at least a great deal to admire on the level of production value and filmmaking. That shift in emphasis, on the whole, represents a positive change.
With new characters, locations, and interests, Westworld is back and more dynamic than ever, now totally reinvigorated after two solid but inconsistent seasons. While it no doubt has plenty of secrets left to reveal, the action is simpler and more straightforward, with an emphasis on character development and world-building that make the show feel ...
Mar 16, 2020 · By the end of the second season, a robot named Dolores manages to escape the park after wreaking havoc there, intent on taking down the human race. Westworld Season 3 Episode 1 Recap. The episode starts with a visual of an incompletely appearing circle made out of pixel-like dots and a point marked as “Divergence- Beihan, China.”
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