Westworld — Series 2 — Episode 3 Virtù e Fortuna: A Review

6th April, 2019.

Yes: there are times I’m glad I’ve got iPlayer.

Really.

For someone who’s usually glued to the TV?   There’s half a ton of stuff I — occasionally — miss.

Mostly?   Well, mostly, because I’m working, or — if I’m not working — doing something else.

I also like to try and avoid adverts.

So — while I’ve got access to the catch up services from Channel Four, ITV and Channel 5 — I tend not to watch them, much.

The BBC’s iPlayer service, on the other hand?

Is fine.

It, unlike others?

Doesn’t have adverts.

Which makes it perfectly  … 

Paul?

Stop waffling at people: and start telling them things!

One.

I managed to catch a documentary on the iPlayer: about Jack the Ripper.

Entertaining stuff that postulates a woman called Martha Tabram was his first victim, not Polly Nichols, as usually claimed.

And names their suspect … 



 certain Mr Aaron Kosminski, of Whitechapel.

Entertaining?   Yes?



Accurate?

I don’t know.

But it was certainly plausible. 

And two‽

I’ve caught another episode of Westworld’s second series.

Ye … haaaa!

~≈§≈~

Episode 3 — Virtù e Fortuna — has a pre-title sequence in what looks like a the Raj … but soon shown to be another part of Delos’s operation.

One that’s suffering with the same revolting hosts as the main Westworld.

Complete with host tigers run amok.

Meanwhile … ?

The story is told from the view point of Bernard (Jeffrey Wright): having flashbacks from two weeks later, to the time when he was held at a fort held by Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and her ragtag army.

In amongst the prisoners and refugees that are ALSO at the fort?

Is Peter Abernathy (Louis Herthum) …  

Father of Dolores … 

And the host that — as far as Bernard can tell — holds copies of every piece of software, and every piece of hardware, made for the part.

Do you get the feeling something is going to give … ?

~≈§≈~

Now … 

I’ll apologise now: for not mentioning that last point: that the Peter Abernathy  host has a secret hidden in his head.

But … ?

Westworld as a series does have quite a few plots twisting around.

And, frankly?   That twist went past, a little on the fast side.

At any rate … ?

Westworld is still a series that’s looking good: even though the Samurai attack at the end was predictable*?

And STILL some thing I’m watching … 

*        Come on: who missed the display of Japanese hosts at the end of series one?