Familiar faces abound in “The Auguries” but they don’t appear to be who we remember.
Anyone else been stuck in a time loop since March 2020?
make sense of it all.
Ed Harris is back as William (or is it robo-William?) in the ‘Westworld’ season 4 premiere.Courtesy of HBO
Let’s dive into the season 4 premiere, shall we?
He and a businessman start throwing around words like “fungible,” and my eyes immediately glaze over.
But he doesn’t want it disturbed, so he’s ready to buy the whole damn plot.
Maya (Ariana DeBose) asks Christina (Evan Rachel Wood) to choose a side in the ‘Westworld’ season 4 premiere.John P. Johnson/HBO
That was only the first 10 minutes.
She fleetingly points to the white pair.
(That seems like foreshadowing, or a callback, or both.)
The roomies head to a restaurant, where Christina (Evan Rachel Wood) will go on a not-so-great blind date in ‘Westworld’ season 4.John Johnson/HBO
But she’s in trouble because all her story pitches are too sweet.
Where’s the sex and violence, her boss asks.
Perhaps she went through too much of that in another life.
Evan Rachel Wood’s Christina just wants to write a story with a happy ending.John Johnson/HBO
It’s ruining his life.
It’s unclear if Christina knows what he’s talking about.
Cut to Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) meditating (?)
in a snow-covered cabin in the woods.
For f—’s sake, indeed.
Speaking of Caleb, there he is, at the top of a building, workin' away.
We learn that all the robots who shared his construction job have been reduced to scrap metal.
(My legs turn to jelly just watching him sit that high up.)
We also learn he has a wife and a 7-year-old daughter whose No.
1 hobby is shooting cans in the yard.
Who does she see in there?
He must’ve sent the thugs?
Later, Christina meets that unknown caller.
Peter insists that Christina his ruining several peoples' lives, his included.
“Why are you doing this to us?”
he asks, before pulling a knife on her.
Christina wakes up the next morning in that familiar loop toanothercall from Peter.
“Is this up to me, or did you write this too?”
were his last words.
It turns out Caleb was right to reach for his gun earlier.
But before the intruder can harm them, a sword is shoved right through him, courtesy of Maeve.
“Hello, darling,” she greets Caleb.
She explains that William sent those men after them.
Caleb tearily tells his wife he has to leave to keep them safe.
We end with Christina on her balcony thinking out a new pitch, one with a happy ending.
A shadowy figure that looks just like that mystery man who saved her from Peter’s knife.
I think we can all guess who this is… Yep,it’s Teddy!
Or at least,James Marsden.
Who knows who he’s playing in this new season 4 game.
