With just two episodes of its fourth season to go after this week’s instalment, Westworld should be heating up. Instead, it continues to be rather heavier on exposition than it is on entertainment. Even the return of perennial hero Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) is rendered less thrilling by how heavily her resurrection had been sign-posted.
Still, it’s promising to see Maeve team up with Caleb’s daughter Frankie, now a grown-up rebel known as C (Aurora Perrineau). I’d previously guessed that C took her new name as a tribute to her missing dad, but I now realise it’s more likely an abbreviation of his nickname for her: Cookie. So the question is: faced with the almost insurmountable task of saving humanity from the clutches of Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson), will this Cookie crumble? Let’s find out…
