Westworld’s season 2 cliffhanger is simultaneously awesome and obnoxious

Heading into the second season finale of Westworld, audiences had already been treated to a subreddit’s worth of twists, reveals, and switcheroos. Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins), it turned out, was still alive(ish), his consciousness uploaded to a vast computer simulation called The Cradle. Delos, Inc. didn’t just buy Westworld because it wanted to get into the theme park business; it wanted to use host technology to create replicants of actual human beings, allowing the company to sell immortality to the highest bidder. And the Man in Black (Ed Harris), the show’s sturdy antihero, had gone increasingly more mad on his search for “the Door,” until he actually killed his own daughter and began to question whether he was a host himself....

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