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Apr 13, 2020 · Published on April 12, 2020 10:00PM EDT. Photo: John P. Johnson/HBO. The fifth episode of season 3 is titled "Genre," referencing the designer drug given to Caleb that causes him—and the viewer ...
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By Calum Marsh
Updated: Apr 13, 2020 7:01 pm
Posted: Apr 13, 2020 2:00 am
This review contains spoilers for Westworld Season 3, episode 5, titled "Genre." To refresh your memory of where we left off, check out our review of Westworld Season 3, episode 4.
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In the documentary about his career that Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow made about him a couple of years ago, the great filmmaker Brian De Palma derided the classic movie car chase as little more than “shots of wheels turning and point-of-views out of windshields and cars banging into things,” not only “very boring,” but “ridiculous to even think about doing” after it was already perfected nearly half a century ago by The French Connection. The complaint was on my mind while watching the fifth episode of Westworld’s third season, because it features one of the freshest, most dynamic car chases I have seen on screen in years. If most car chases are boring, this is the exception that proves the rule — and yet another testament to the calibre of action Westworld has been delivering all season.
One of Ramin Djawadi’s beloved instrumental covers of pop songs greets us as our heroes exit the subway — David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” which was the perfect choice to score the confusion and havoc that’s already erupting outside. “What genre is this?” Caleb asks as he watches men and women fighting and looting, stealing cars and wailing in the street. The bleak answer? “It’s reality, man.” The implication is that, thanks to Dolores, the real world has now transformed into a movie, full of drama and excitement and the kind of intensity that Serac and Rehoboam carefully suppressed. Maybe all this chaos and violence seems brutal, but the question the show wants to pose for us is whether that might not be preferable to the benign monotony of total control.
Caleb’s last genre, down on the shore by the docks where Dolores told him he’d eventually take his life, is horror, heralded by synths from Wendy Carlos’s unforgettable score for The Shining. (There are some interesting ways to think about this reference: like Jack Torrence, Caleb may be a man of dubious mental health and dark mysteries in his past.) We’re edging closer to what I suspect will be some seriously major revelations about Caleb’s identity, including whatever exactly Liam Dempsey warns him he was responsible for before succumbing to his wounds on the sand. It seems that Caleb was involved in some untoward business during his time as a vet, and we get an intriguing glimpse of what appears to be the torture and kidnapping of a man played by Enrico Colantoni, who played Keith on Veronica Mars. Whatever the secret, Dolores knows, and it’s sure to figure into her plan in some respect.
A highly original gimmick and an exhilarating car chase combine to produce one of the best action set pieces in years, in what is perhaps the strongest episode of Westworld to date.
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Apr 12, 2020 · By Josh Wigler. April 12, 2020 7:10pm. John P. Johnson/HBO. [This story contains spoilers for season three, episode five of HBO’s Westworld, “Genre.”] Once upon a time, it was Dolores (Evan ...
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Published Apr 13, 2020. Jonathan Nolan's got jokes! This week’s Westworld was, um, a lot. We not only got to find out what Dolores’ plan is, we got to see her enact it. And we got an ambitious ...
Apr 12, 2020 · A jam-packed episode fills in some details about the past while setting up the potential collapse of society. A recap of ‘Genre,’ episode five of season three of Westworld on HBO.
