Not Enough Time to Tell the Story

Published April 28, 2020 · Updated July 6, 2022

So I am a little earlier this time for the penultimate episode of Westworld season7. Before I complain I want to say I mostly liked this episode, I think the shortcomings of the overall season made this episode less impactful than it would have been in other seasons. I liked the Caleb backstory, I kind of feel like it should have happened earlier because not much was a surprise to us once we had learned about the reeducation centers. I also liked the cool battles; however, I think there was something missing from this season that was there in other season to make the climatic confrontations really feel like a payoff. Before the journey into night or the mesa HQ massacre train explosion there was an entire season of lead up of story from beginning, to middle to end that led to season ender.

In this season it feels like there wasn’t enough time to tell the main story, even though they had some really, really good character episodes for 2 for Caleb, 2 for William and 2 for Charlores and 1 for Serac. Usually for a season this story is involved with those episodes and the journey develops as the season goes on. Here its like we missed most of the journey and weren’t involved except for a couple places so the penultimate episode just doesn’t hit us as strongly as season 1 or 2. That and some main character that really should have been more active in the season don’t really do much Bernard, Stubs and Meave. I love them, but honestly they could have used a body double for Bernard and wouldn’t have made much difference to the character.

For episode I give it a 6 2/3 stars out of 10

For season barring great ending. 7 our of 10, usually I give the season 10 out of 10.

Past excellent season have spoiled for pretty good tv.

Scott P

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Ferdinand Cesarano says:

May 5, 2020 at 8:18 am

I lament the trend of short seasons. Nowadays a viewer can never watch a show without the stress of thinking that the clock is ticking. Whereas, in the days of the 24-episode seasons, the viewer could form a relationship with the show that just cannot be developed over eight or ten episodes. As a viewer who loves Westworld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Picard, Barry, Avenue 5, and other shows, I have always come away from these excellent shows feeling somewhat cheated by their seasons’ brevity.

Also, the idea that long seasons necessarily include filler episodes is a canard. Shows such as Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Office disprove that theory, as do currently-running shows such as Family Guy. In these shows, the quality was/is always top-notch from the beginning of the season in September or October on through the end of the season in May. This is the pattern that high-quality television needs to return to.