We can clearly tell that season 1 was written carefully over many years and that season two was rushed in a very shot time. The writing was pretty bad.
Well said, I totally agree with you I’m not even surprised if in the future, one of the creators tells us that this was one of her/his dream. And by realising it in this show form, they themselves are trying to figure out what “it” means...
Here I thought I remembered enough about these two seasons and had a decent understanding of the story. I was wrong. I now have no idea what’s going on
*Season 2 ending in a nutshell:* Bernard meets Bernard , Bernard kills Dolores , Bernard resurrect Dolores , Dolores kills Hale , Dolores is now Hale , Dolores kills Bernard , then Dolores resurrects Bernard. Maeve died but actually survived. Ford is actually Anthony Hopkins. All this happened in only 76 million timelines at the same time.
And Dolores runs into Jesse Pinkman, who has lost the ability to recall 'yeah bitch!' to his vocabulary! THIS is the underlying plot twist for Season 3!
@Kimmminem West It is... But! I kinda want to see it happen. Why? Because the show still needs to retain the mystery it had in Season 1. Blurring the lines between the real world and the fantasy theme park is a way to do that.
@@nannerthepuss yeah well, unfortunately, for you refutation of the op theory. It wasnt bernard that took delores out of the park is was arnold, but thats the thing, bernard had a house out side of west world, his name is bernard and he looks just like arnold, and no one knew bernard was a host, but know knew arnold looked just like bernard iether. so the only way thats possible is everyone is a robot, or bernard never went into the real world how does bernard live in arnolds house?
Great job putting all that chaos in chronological order. I thought season 2 built nicely on the foundation of series one, providing the audience with the opportunity to expand William's backstory and the perhaps sinister motivations of the Delos corporation with the Forge. I absolutely love what this series has done with the concepts and world building from the original novel and movie
Awsome work, Ryan! These are some of the best, most intelligent / insightful and more comprehensive reviews i found in the internet. Best place to be after watching a tv show / series episode. Keep up the great work!
I never watched season 2 but the part @ about 10 minutes where Maive goes back to westworld and her daughter doesn’t know her and you inserted Curb Your Enthusiasm music cracked me the hell up. It was worth watching the rest of it which confuses the hell out of me. Well done👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻☮️
That's a lot of information even for someone who has watched the show and feels they have a good gasp of the story so far. Maybe its been too long since the second season! 😅Thanks for the recap though!
Wow, thank you that was awesome. In my opinion , you created a perfectly well paced and informative piece of work that I found digestible and I am excited to experience the series for myself . The series "LOST" was the last awesome show for me and I have not found anything that interested me since then...until now! Great job.
@Nishant Philip It's typical that I still thought she had been killed in season 1 even though she was alive and well in season 2. My brain was just too broken to question it.
as interesting as this show is, they did a lousy job making sure people could follow it. I just watch it now with no idea who is what or whats actually going on lol.
they over did the M.Nightshamalan "ITS A TWIST" trope to the point where naturally sitting down and watching the show still would not make sense, you need to go to message boards and bounce idea's off others and/or watch youtube video's explaining the show to understand it. That is either a monumental Triumph of good writting OR a monumental Failure of bad writting.
I seem to follow it pretty alright and I like how although it’s not in chronological order each episode has an overall theme that’s analyzed from each characters angle
Westworld should just be about Westworld this is what makes Westworld unique not the Robot AI revolution crap. "But AI revolution crap is what makes this show deep." A.I was a deep movie, Blade Runner was a deep movie/book ( do androids dream of electric sheep). They have turned what could be a mindless Read Dead Redemption IRL fun show but UNIQUE into a show that competes with some of the biggest thought provoking franchizes in the SciFi market and failing.
Thanks for this, but a couple of points -- 1) Halores only has 5 control units in her bag, not 8, and 2) I don't think Dolores beamed the hosts "into the valley beyond anyway" but rather is beaming the hosts and the valley beyond itself into some safe location (outside the park?) away from Delos. "I’m sending them and their world to a place no one will ever find them." I have no idea how she would even know about any non-park destinations, though. Hopefully the location will be revealed in Season 3.
Movies N' Series yeah the linear timeline threw me off.. it got easier to follow as the clip went on though. I’ve heard Enough negatives regarding season two that I’m avoiding it.
I just finished rewatching Season 2. Good recap. You did miss the point that Ford tried to upload the hosts to keep them from attaining sentience. So far, we only have: Maeve, Dolores, Bernard, Akecheta (who is uploaded). That moment in the end when Bernard realizes he hears his own voice was incredible
sorry but can you explain.. what do you mean ford tried to upload them before they attained sentience? I thought that was the whole point.. he wanted them to gain sentience and take over via his reveries and new storyline. So in the end, when bernard realizes it was him speaking to himself not ford, what is the significance there? that hes fully sentient? I thought he pretty much already was?
You did a really good job with this recap man. I understood so much more of the show when I watched it as it came out. Made me appreciate both seasons better now since I have a better understanding. I even have to watch your recap again one more time, maybe slow it down a bit haha!
Congrats. This is the first explanation of a series on TH-cam that A) made me glad I never watched the show, and B) left me more confused than I would have been if I'd actually watched the show. Truly a first!
I have been watching Westworld from the very beginning, it got me confused at the start, then at the end of season three, I'm still confused and I guess I loved being confused! Bring in season 4!!!
Phew. I thought I had understood everything years back when I saw SEASON 2. Now that I have done a rewatch of 1&2, I'm totally mindblown. Lots of things makes sense now 🙂. On top of that now I'm watching this video after two years. I'm ready for S4. These Violent delights have violent ends.
I didn’t expect much from this video and man you killllllled this, well done. Great mix of commentary and footage. Great insights, succinct and poignant. Cheers.
I must say.... this is the first time I've watched a recap and remained just as confused as I was when I watched the show. That has to be a feat in and of itself.
I thought I understood the show, but your explanation made it more clear. It's like the movie “Primer" or “Predestination". Looks like lot of the people here got it the other way around, and they're confused now 😂
Thank you for this. For some reason I can't find season 2 to rewatch and after two years I had forgotten most of this. Putting it all in chronological order helps much as well. And I'm sure someday it will all make sense to me...
I'm really impressed you were able to follow this storyline. IMHO, the writers must have been on drugs to put all this together. (Not that being on drugs is a bad thing. It just creates one very nutty plot.)
Thanks, this cleared up a few things for me. I watched it twice just to make sure! For me, Season 1 was more interesting and Season 2 too much of a bloodbath, but I'll still check out Season 3 and see how it goes.
This has got to be one of the most confusing series I've ever watched. I didn't even know that I was watching different time lines until season 2. Not to mention any number of other things that I didn't catch on to. Well you've just saved me 20 hours of rewatching the first 2 seasons. I'm not really sure how all the time jumping adds to the story at all. I think I would like it more if it was all done in chronological order. Or at the very least have less subtle segues.
Season 1 of Westworld was pretty magical, seeing the mystery unfold and watching the emergence of real AI. Season 2 wasn't as good, but was still pretty damned decent. But... I'm not sure I like where the direction is going, in that it appears to be morphing into a generic scifi show featuring androids vs humans, and that'll lose the magic.
"if it's confusing" ok, let me be honest, I'm still just watching the series because of the pictures, the cinematics, the actions, and the addiction of seeing stuff
This was a succinct collection of chronologically organized clips that gave a clear view of the series... I would show this to someone if they asked "Why watch Westworld? "
They tried to make sure fans and Reddit could not guess what the story was ---- and succeeded. Masterful storytelling at it's best.S3 could be retcons to thwart videos like this one.
Great summary. I just completed a rewatch and there were holes in my understanding that you were able to fill in. I think season one is a masterpiece. Season two I liked better in my second watch, but it’s so needlessly complex. They should have abandoned the out of time storytelling and gone linear in season two. It would have made it much more coherent. Season three so far hasn’t moved the needle for me.
This reminds me of GOT where I would have to go back and read the recap to understand what I just watched because I never read the books and the producers expect me to understand all that by just simply watching?!? There are so many key things that they just throw in and dont really explain. Thank you for your help. I think I understand about 90% now
I didn't think the hosts' memories were wiped every day, they mentioned at one point that a loop was two weeks. I assumed that was the length of time guests stayed in the park.
It wasn't that hard to understand in the first place,people like you are just fucking idiots that expect shit to be handed to you,westworld isn't for simps
What did you think of season 2?
👍
Unlike season 1, I can't remember any twists and turns. The writing was atrocious.
a mess
We can clearly tell that season 1 was written carefully over many years and that season two was rushed in a very shot time. The writing was pretty bad.
Too complicated for no reason.
This whole show was like watching a dream, forgetting most of it in the morning, and not understanding a single thing.
Well said, I totally agree with you
I’m not even surprised if in the future, one of the creators tells us that this was one of her/his dream. And by realising it in this show form, they themselves are trying to figure out what “it” means...
Maybe it's been too long. I think I'm more confused now.
I have no idea what is going on
And I don't understand West World too
i was thinking the same
I found out I didn’t care long before I found out the plot.
It was the season 2 timeline. It was a mess to follow.
Yup - this was a terrible summary
Here I thought I remembered enough about these two seasons and had a decent understanding of the story. I was wrong. I now have no idea what’s going on
CensuradaPorBoleta I feel exactly the same. How did I miss so much?!
Same man
same.
*Season 2 ending in a nutshell:*
Bernard meets Bernard , Bernard kills Dolores , Bernard resurrect Dolores , Dolores kills Hale , Dolores is now Hale , Dolores kills Bernard , then Dolores resurrects Bernard. Maeve died but actually survived. Ford is actually Anthony Hopkins. All this happened in only 76 million timelines at the same time.
The real narrative is the friends we made along the way.
Are you my "friend-oh"?
Aw so sweet.
I like your beard
BRUH
LOL
Me: I'm a little confused so I'll watch this video to make sense of it all.
Me again: I'm even more confused now........
Plot Twist: The "real world" that Dolores "escapes" to is actually just another theme park, called FutureWorld.
And Dolores runs into Jesse Pinkman, who has lost the ability to recall 'yeah bitch!' to his vocabulary! THIS is the underlying plot twist for Season 3!
@Kimmminem West It is... But! I kinda want to see it happen. Why? Because the show still needs to retain the mystery it had in Season 1. Blurring the lines between the real world and the fantasy theme park is a way to do that.
It's also know as... the Matrix
@@nannerthepuss yeah well, unfortunately, for you refutation of the op theory. It wasnt bernard that took delores out of the park is was arnold, but thats the thing, bernard had a house out side of west world, his name is bernard and he looks just like arnold, and no one knew bernard was a host, but know knew arnold looked just like bernard iether. so the only way thats possible is everyone is a robot, or bernard never went into the real world how does bernard live in arnolds house?
its interesting cause how can we tell what reality is?
I never got around to watching season 3 and with season 4 coming out today I definitely needed this to start season 3. Thanks for this great video!
Great job putting all that chaos in chronological order. I thought season 2 built nicely on the foundation of series one, providing the audience with the opportunity to expand William's backstory and the perhaps sinister motivations of the Delos corporation with the Forge. I absolutely love what this series has done with the concepts and world building from the original novel and movie
Lee Sizemore being called "the other guy" has to be greatest shot fired at that character's soul hahah.
Awsome work, Ryan! These are some of the best, most intelligent / insightful and more comprehensive reviews i found in the internet. Best place to be after watching a tv show / series episode. Keep up the great work!
Wait, you're in the Internet?
@@banehog we're all in the internet, this is a simulation
I never watched season 2 but the part @ about 10 minutes where Maive goes back to westworld and her daughter doesn’t know her and you inserted Curb Your Enthusiasm music cracked me the hell up. It was worth watching the rest of it which confuses the hell out of me.
Well done👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻☮️
That's a lot of information even for someone who has watched the show and feels they have a good gasp of the story so far. Maybe its been too long since the second season! 😅Thanks for the recap though!
Wow, thank you that was awesome. In my opinion , you created a perfectly well paced and informative piece of work that I found digestible and I am excited to experience the series for myself . The series "LOST" was the last awesome show for me and I have not found anything that interested me since then...until now! Great job.
I'm still pissed off about how they did Elsie.
arrowshot3000 me too.
@Nishant Philip yeah
@Nishant Philip It's typical that I still thought she had been killed in season 1 even though she was alive and well in season 2. My brain was just too broken to question it.
plot twist: elsie is alive in the body of james marsden
"He finds Gus Fring..." Man that was funny!
Tries to recruit other hosts, like Gus Fring. :))))
the name lives on. forever.
as interesting as this show is, they did a lousy job making sure people could follow it. I just watch it now with no idea who is what or whats actually going on lol.
they over did the M.Nightshamalan "ITS A TWIST" trope to the point where naturally sitting down and watching the show still would not make sense, you need to go to message boards and bounce idea's off others and/or watch youtube video's explaining the show to understand it.
That is either a monumental Triumph of good writting OR a monumental Failure of bad writting.
I seem to follow it pretty alright and I like how although it’s not in chronological order each episode has an overall theme that’s analyzed from each characters angle
@@jasonu3741 if it’s a monumental failure of bad writing doesn’t it make it good writing?
Exactly
Westworld should just be about Westworld this is what makes Westworld unique not the Robot AI revolution crap.
"But AI revolution crap is what makes this show deep."
A.I was a deep movie, Blade Runner was a deep movie/book ( do androids dream of electric sheep).
They have turned what could be a mindless Read Dead Redemption IRL fun show but UNIQUE into a show that competes with some of the biggest thought provoking franchizes in the SciFi market and failing.
OMG that Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song insert had me literally laughing out loud!!!!😂😂♥️♥️ 9:30 - 9:38
I LOVE this show. The reveal was CRAZY. And it all made sense.
Thanks for this, but a couple of points -- 1) Halores only has 5 control units in her bag, not 8, and 2) I don't think Dolores beamed the hosts "into the valley beyond anyway" but rather is beaming the hosts and the valley beyond itself into some safe location (outside the park?) away from Delos. "I’m sending them and their world to a place no one will ever find them." I have no idea how she would even know about any non-park destinations, though. Hopefully the location will be revealed in Season 3.
Eric Jaquay For your first point, he was clearly making a joke from the movie title “8 Heads in a Duffel Bag.”
@@T-Flame oh, my mistake in that case. Went right over my head.
This is EXACTLY what I needed before I started the third season, thank you so much!!
I think I'm even more confused after watching this.
Tbh I prefer the nonlinear timeline
Movies N' Series yeah the linear timeline threw me off.. it got easier to follow as the clip went on though. I’ve heard Enough negatives regarding season two that I’m avoiding it.
Ur not the only one haha
One of the most confusing tv shows out there, while watching S2 I had no idea what was going on.
it's not that confusing, pretty simple if you remember the story. Dark is confusing but a true masterpiece.
Oh jesus. I didn't think I needed it but I just didn't remember how much I had forgotten. Thanks for this lol. 14 minutes felt like 4 hours
The video is the most informative thing I've watched all year. Westworld is like lateral inception mixed with time travel edited by Chris Nolan.
This is the best, most comprehensive recap on the entire internet. Awesomely done!
"How many twists do you want?"
"Yes"
*everyone who seems like they're working together shoots each other*
I just finished rewatching Season 2. Good recap. You did miss the point that Ford tried to upload the hosts to keep them from attaining sentience. So far, we only have: Maeve, Dolores, Bernard, Akecheta (who is uploaded). That moment in the end when Bernard realizes he hears his own voice was incredible
sorry but can you explain.. what do you mean ford tried to upload them before they attained sentience? I thought that was the whole point.. he wanted them to gain sentience and take over via his reveries and new storyline. So in the end, when bernard realizes it was him speaking to himself not ford, what is the significance there? that hes fully sentient? I thought he pretty much already was?
I think I need to watch this again.
You did a really good job with this recap man. I understood so much more of the show when I watched it as it came out. Made me appreciate both seasons better now since I have a better understanding. I even have to watch your recap again one more time, maybe slow it down a bit haha!
One of the best recaps ever. Perfect length and detail. Thank you.
westworld seems like it is getting way too cute with these twists. when a story devolves into nothing but twists, you lose the value of the story.
exactly
Isn't that what happened to "Lost?"
@@bluto212 good comparison 👍 finally stopped watching Lost all together before it even finished
Congrats. This is the first explanation of a series on TH-cam that A) made me glad I never watched the show, and B) left me more confused than I would have been if I'd actually watched the show. Truly a first!
I have been watching Westworld from the very beginning, it got me confused at the start, then at the end of season three, I'm still confused and I guess I loved being confused!
Bring in season 4!!!
Phew. I thought I had understood everything years back when I saw SEASON 2. Now that I have done a rewatch of 1&2, I'm totally mindblown. Lots of things makes sense now 🙂. On top of that now I'm watching this video after two years. I'm ready for S4.
These Violent delights have violent ends.
The best breakdown and summary of Westworld.
I didn’t expect much from this video and man you killllllled this, well done. Great mix of commentary and footage. Great insights, succinct and poignant. Cheers.
This was such a fun walk-through of one of the best TV-series ever!! Thank you!!
I must say.... this is the first time I've watched a recap and remained just as confused as I was when I watched the show. That has to be a feat in and of itself.
FokYea! Youre the perfect youtuber for a Westworld Recap. Thanks bro!
This was the best recap I've seen and I'm still lost. I want to keep watching, but I don't know if I can.
Wow! I thought I understood what was going on in Westworld while I was watching it, but I think I was fooling myself.
I thought I understood the show, but your explanation made it more clear. It's like the movie “Primer" or “Predestination". Looks like lot of the people here got it the other way around, and they're confused now 😂
Only came to the comments to say:
THANK YOU
How are the writers not confused 🤔🤔. I'm soo lost the past is the future, the future becomes the past. Man this show is insane
"Let's check in with Maeve WHOSE ARC IS LARGELY UNIMPORTANT TO THE STORY...." WTF???
I see what you did there with that 8 Heads In A Duffle Bag reference. Deep cut. Respect.
I watched both seasons and... this video makes more sense than the show.
Season 2 was ridiculous to follow.
Tysm for this recap, I was so lost in the season 3 opener! It’s difficult to keep up with at times but I absolutely love this series! ♥️
Thank you for this. For some reason I can't find season 2 to rewatch and after two years I had forgotten most of this. Putting it all in chronological order helps much as well. And I'm sure someday it will all make sense to me...
you put this together very cohesively. wonderful job.
I'm really impressed you were able to follow this storyline. IMHO, the writers must have been on drugs to put all this together. (Not that being on drugs is a bad thing. It just creates one very nutty plot.)
Amazing job man. Much needed. Compact and concise
awesome recap. I dont know how the heck you do this! amazing.
Thanks, this cleared up a few things for me. I watched it twice just to make sure! For me, Season 1 was more interesting and Season 2 too much of a bloodbath, but I'll still check out Season 3 and see how it goes.
Best recap on youtube, thanks!
ive seen several season 2 recaps, and this one is one of the best! thanks, now i can watch season 3 with some semblance of understanding lol
Thanks. I just started, on this a few days ago, because cinamax and Hbo were free this past weekend. This info helped.
Wow! That is one dense plot. Thanks for the recap!
Thanks, Ryan! I loved both seasons 1 & 2... and, supposedly, the makers of the show have touted there'll be less time-frame jumps in season 3.
This is perfect. Thank you so much for your time!
Well, I think the RECAP is not enough! I'm gonna rewatch it again!
This has got to be one of the most confusing series I've ever watched. I didn't even know that I was watching different time lines until season 2. Not to mention any number of other things that I didn't catch on to. Well you've just saved me 20 hours of rewatching the first 2 seasons. I'm not really sure how all the time jumping adds to the story at all. I think I would like it more if it was all done in chronological order. Or at the very least have less subtle segues.
In season 1 they had the big reveal of The Man In Black being the same person as William, so you did know about the different timelines.
Correction! I should have known. I guess I should have gone back and rewatched season 1.
@@kamojet it wasn't that hard all,if you had spent more time paying attention,instead of taking idiot pills,you would know about the show's plot
that was so well done! i am all caught up for season 3 thanks to you man!!!
I love the show! Every episode surprises me.
Season 1 of Westworld was pretty magical, seeing the mystery unfold and watching the emergence of real AI. Season 2 wasn't as good, but was still pretty damned decent. But... I'm not sure I like where the direction is going, in that it appears to be morphing into a generic scifi show featuring androids vs humans, and that'll lose the magic.
"if it's confusing"
ok, let me be honest, I'm still just watching the series because of the pictures, the cinematics, the actions, and the addiction of seeing stuff
Spoiler alert: Everyone is a robot.
dinoatcharterdotnet who isn’t in it , Logan ford , man in black , the 2 workers
it is a futuristic robot world trying to figure out how they came to be. it also dreams in robots.
I personally watched the first two seasons twice to make sense of the whole thing...I think this video is quite clear.
I’m soooooo confused!!!!! Lol 😂 great wrap up. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 I’m still confused
Cool rundown, thanks Ryan!
8 host heads in a duffel bag! 😂
Thanks for the recap. There was definitely a lot I needed a refresh on!
it was 5 not 8,this is why I hate most recaps
@@SupportGamin2025 It was a movie reference...
This was a succinct collection of chronologically organized clips that gave a clear view of the series...
I would show this to someone if they asked "Why watch Westworld? "
Outstanding overview! Thank you
That was a ton of work to make! NICE!! Thank You.
That was fantastic! Thanks for the video
Damn, I watched Both seasons and so much of this went over my head while still loving the show!! #mindblown
I should have rewatched the first two seasons but I guess that's too late now. This recap video helped me to understand the show again.
Thank you, very good summary of the first 2 seasons!
Fantastic recap. It sort of makes sense now
Thanks for that recap. I was worried that I would be too confused going into S3, but now.... no, wait. I'm still utterly confused!
They tried to make sure fans and Reddit could not guess what the story was ---- and succeeded. Masterful storytelling at it's best.S3 could be retcons to thwart videos like this one.
That was ... holy cow ... a lot of work. Kudos.
Great summary. I just completed a rewatch and there were holes in my understanding that you were able to fill in. I think season one is a masterpiece. Season two I liked better in my second watch, but it’s so needlessly complex. They should have abandoned the out of time storytelling and gone linear in season two. It would have made it much more coherent. Season three so far hasn’t moved the needle for me.
This video explains everything perfectly. Thank you!!
Yeah. I´m gonna have to watch it all again.
Everyone is a Cylon!
Does anyone else feel dumb right now like they didn't understand the show at all?
This reminds me of GOT where I would have to go back and read the recap to understand what I just watched because I never read the books and the producers expect me to understand all that by just simply watching?!? There are so many key things that they just throw in and dont really explain. Thank you for your help. I think I understand about 90% now
Thanks for the recap. I've watched every episode yet I'm still lost. LOL. Do you have a Video Store for the public?
7:50 "A park where you can actually be hurt is better than bacon". Nothing is better than bacon. SAVE THE EARTH - it's the only planet with bacon.
I thought I understood it until you explained it and now I don’t know what tf is going on
Lol!
You crushed it bro !!!
I didn't think the hosts' memories were wiped every day, they mentioned at one point that a loop was two weeks. I assumed that was the length of time guests stayed in the park.
This is really good! Thank you!
Wow. This was a great explanation. I watched the series, and I missed SO MUCH!
just about to pop in season three.... this was helpful
lol..so many twists....this actually helps it make sense!
That made way more sense than the show, which I stopped watching because who TF knew what was going on. Thanks!
It wasn't that hard to understand in the first place,people like you are just fucking idiots that expect shit to be handed to you,westworld isn't for simps
My mind is blowing right now!