The Finale Season of 'Westworld': Did Humanity Survive William's Game?

The Fourth Season Finale of 'Westworld': Did Humanity Survive William's Game?

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The Season 4 finale of Westworld demonstrated that the show's creators always knew

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how to play the long game, and their most recent effort definitely paid off.

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In the final episode of Season 4, William (Ed Harris) murdered many of the show's key protagonists

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forced mankind and the surviving hosts to compete in a perverse game of survival

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Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright), who spent the whole of the season attempting to influence events

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ultimately had his endgame exposed in the series finale, which concluded many

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Although Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) was one of William's victims in the last episode

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she did not stay dead for long, as is typical in Westworld.

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Charlotte opted to go after William herself after being brought back by her host

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