What I’m Watching: Westworld

Westworld: Season 4, Episode 6 “Fidelity” (B)

It’s interesting to see Caleb become the center of the world, or at least of Charlotte’s attention, which does mean something given that she reigns over the entire city of unknowingly subservient people. It was jarring to see the many attempts to remake him in physical form, as he noticed three other versions of himself in cages around him and then encountered a number of hims on his way to the roof, where he did finally manage to get a signal out. Charlotte was very disappointed that he had spent so long trying to get to that point only to transmit a message of affirmation, but the idea that there’s still hope and victory remains possible is certainly something much more comprehensible to humans than to machines. And Frankie did hear just enough of it to instill in her a reason to fight when she was nearly taken out by the mole, who wasn’t the one she originally thought. I like that Bernard recounted the many scenarios he had processed, one of which somehow involved Stubbs as the mole, and fortunately Maeve roared back to life at exactly the right moment to save the day. She and Frankie are a good pair now that they can finally work together, and they’re going to start striking back at an opportune time when even Charlotte is starting to see her hand twitch and her grip on her new constructed reality threaten to crumble. And she’s still obsessing over a 279th build of Caleb, which will likely serve to at least temporarily paralyze Frankie when she sees her unaged father apparently still alive.