Westworld recap: Is Ford a robot?

What if Arnold is Ford's father, who built him as a mechanical robot, not the "real boy" Ford wants to be?

Last week, Westworld's "Contrapasso" episode ended with a fully conscious Maeve confronting her "butchers" like a vengeful Disney princess. This week, "The Adversary" began by explicitly linking Maeve to Dolores — the shot of her waking up back in Westworld, self-aware, recalls the latter's increasingly troubled awakenings in the pilot, and reminds us that this show is really all about repetitions and reenactments until there's a mistake.

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Lili Loofbourow

Lili Loofbourow is the culture critic at TheWeek.com. She's also a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Review of Books and an editor for Beyond Criticism, a Bloomsbury Academic series dedicated to formally experimental criticism. Her writing has appeared in a variety of venues including The Guardian, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and Slate.