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It's as if Maeve doesn't want to continue with her own free will if that means being imprisoned as a host at a Delos park. Now that she didn't have powers was she trying to "erase" who she was? If she just wanted to go back to the lab she cold have shot herself elsewhere. Because none of it's real."Īnd that's when she grabs Hector's gun and shoots herself in the head. I like Maeve's response once she fully realizes the situation, "It's alright darling because none of it mattered. And it was absolutely heartbreaking realizing they actually weren't. It was wonderful having Maeve and Hector back together. And for me, this scene provided some of the most genuine emotion I felt for the show in a while.
This parallels Caleb's mom not remembering him in the first episode. They escape via a fancy red convertible, but there's one problem: Hector thinks Maeve is "Isabella." Meaning he doesn't remember her the way Maeve remembers Hector or whoever is now in Hector's body. Maeve does a literal "You can take this pill and shove it" move to gouge out a German soldier's eye with a pill that Hector gave her earlier. Of course their capture does give us one of the coolest uses of a mundane object as a weapon since The Godfather Part III when Licio Lucchesi is stabbed in the neck with a pair of his own glasses. And if that doubt didn't cross your mind, perhaps when Hector and Maeve get caught and she can't control the other hosts you realized that something was off.
But if we are in 2058 only months after the Westworld massacre it seems odd that any Delos park would be up and running full steam. Now the show Westworld is famous for playing with timelines and mixing up when things are exactly taking place. They're in another one of Delos' parks called Warworld and he's trying to rescue Maeve from the Nazis. They kiss and plot their escape, except they're fleeing two very different things. Maeve awakens in an Italian villa during World War II and within moments is reunited with Hector. Read our recap for the season 3 premiere episode or if you need a refresher on the first two seasons, read our Westworld season 1 and 2 recap. But before we jump into everything that happened, take a look at our interview with Jeffrey Wright, who explains what happiness might look like for Bernard. Written by Matt Pitts and the show's co-creator Lisa Joy, the episode was directed by one of the show's producers Richard J. Read: Westworld season 3 gets futuristic gadgets and tech so right And there is that giant Game of Thrones Easter egg that also gives a subtle nod to Jurassic Park. I absolutely love Maeve's character and the way Newton portrays her with both power and thoughtfulness.Įpisode 2, titled The Winter Line, also addresses a number of other things from the end of season 2. I can't think of a better way to spend an hour stuck at home than watching Thandie Newton and Jeffrey Wright.
The second episode gave us two storylines, one following Maeve and the other following Bernard. Turns out the second episode picks up right there, and it's in stark contrast to the real world of 2058 that dominated the season premiere. If you didn't stick around through the end credits of the first episode of Westworld's third season, then you may have missed the reveal of Maeve wearing a 1940s burgundy dress overlooking an Italian town occupied by Nazi soldiers during World War II.