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House of the Dragon: We Light the Way (2022)
Really? This script was approved?
After four fantastic episodes, somehow one of the cheesiest, most boring, poorly made and "soap opery" scripts I've ever seen in an HBO show makes it into S1 of the Game of Thrones sequel. Did anybody even give it a second read?
The episode contains very important events, lots of drama and some action. Well, for one, the action was as disappointing as it gets, rushed upon so nobody notices it. Then the writing style turned the drama into a soap opera drama, so bad you could feel the actors cringe. Important stuff happens here but the writer was more interested in making a 50 minutes Twilight episode than something remotely similar to the previous episodes, therefore every important event felt watered down and irrelevant, even the secondary ones (you know: betrayals, love trouble, etc.) were scripted so poorly you don't even care about what happens then the scene changes.
Hopefully they find a good balance and synergy between writers for this series because episode 5, man, it's just bad. Probablyhad five bullets points about that needed to happen and gave it to someone who dreams of making the next Mamma Mia movie. It was that bad, completely out of space, so boring.
I cannot give it less than a 5/10 since everything else, from special effects, casting, audio, video, etc. Was top notch as always, it wouldn't be fair to them.
Westworld: Well Enough Alone (2022)
It flew by! Great episode
This episode was great, so good it actually felt short. Explained a lot of things, moved the plot forward and set the characters in very interesting storylines I'm eager to see unfold next week.
Wish this would've been the first episode of the season or 1 and 2 were somehow combined together, since I feel the show has restarted the engine with this episode, not the one prior... maybe that's why this season wasn't advertised a y HBO until this week.
Grab some popcorn, this should be fun 🔥
Westworld: The Auguries (2022)
Melancholy in the new world
For a season premiere you have to start, unavoidably, reminding yourself what happened before. We got to know the hosts, the park and got to know the 'real world' during S1 to S3.
Now that book has closed. Some years have passed by and the new world unfolds silently. A new world that reminds way too much to the one we live in, a world filled with melancholy, sadness and hopes for happiness.
How different are our lives from a story a writer can come up with? Do we also live in loop? If so, who writes those loops?
This episode reminds me of S1 for a good reason: details and pace. While it was not the flashy-gore content S1 had, the stories "people want", it defies us to do something different and think about what's happening with a comfortable pace and a focus on introspection. Reds, yellows and whites from past seasons are now blues, greens and blacks, a much more intimate approach to the questions the writers set up form the very beginning.
Hopefully this seasons undoes some of the sadness many fans felt in S3, which was a difficult season to make during very difficult times - and it showed.
Way too much resentment against this show even after two years. Hopefully it will be water under the bridge soon enough.
Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet: Quarantine (2020)
Validation for the show's internal strength
If I have to convince a TV network to make more seasons of Mythic Quest, I'll show them this episode. It demonstrates how good the acting, writing and chemistry between actors are. But the defining thing about this episode is how fresh it feels, how natural, organic. It sets Mythic Quest in a really good place for its next season.
Westworld: Passed Pawn (2020)
SPECTACULAR!
I have no recollection of me holding me holding my breath that long while watching TV in a long time.
This episode had it all: action, plot twists, explanations (many, many explanations), on point dialogue, character developments and returns... wow. I was afraid of Westworld going out of the park and losing essence after the perfect S1, but 'au contraire'! So many pieces of the puzzle that is S3 have sense now, I feel like a rewatch is even more worth it this season as it was in the previous ones. Insane, great TV.
This show is a cup of good wine in a table full of fast food. Fast food, everyone can eat and leaves you no positive afterthought. Westworld wants you to come back and take another sip, you surely must have missed something the first time. Brilliant.
Westworld: Parce Domine (2020)
Off to a good start
Westworld faces something quite unique in Season 3: it either breaks it completely or consolidates it as the next TV revelation after Lost or Game of Thrones. Can't say I'm not worried after seeing 'Parce Domain', but I'll lie if I say I'm not excited.
The first 20-25 minutes where the ones that got me really, really worried. It felt sloppy, amateur. Too many cuts, too many sound effects, not enough time to really BE and feel like you're in a scene, like Westworld usually does. Thing is... was it on purpose? I'll explain.
The writers of this episode really got me with the scene inside the car. After that, everything started to really make sense very, very fast to me and excitement overcame worry. I loved that second half of the episode, which made me wonder why the first half felt, with its audio and video cuts and cringable speeches, like an highly-testosteroned trailer for your everyday, white label dystopian movie. Like a... dream?
It was like taking a nap when you're high. And maybe, just maybe, that was the intention. 'He's just tripping', a character said, and I thought "wow that's a bad script". Maybe that was the intention? To us to feel like 'tripping'?
I gotta say, I know what I'm saying sounds crazy, but I can't understand why such a sloppy start fell into place after real action took place. First you feel doozy with so much new information, so fast, sometimes so weird, sometimes too easy... and suddenly BOOM! You're into Westworld Season 3.
I give it a 9/10 because that's what I felt after finishing the episode (btw, look out for that post-credits scene! ) It definitely puts the show in a great starting point, and even if I struggled at first, that first half eventually felt like a weird dream, like a blurred memory, when the episode finished.
If that was the intention, it is brilliant. Weird, but brilliant.
If it wasn't, the great starting point is still there.
Whatever it is, Westworld is back! Let's feel it, like we love to.