But, by the end of the taut ninety-minute finale, Dolores would undergo the more transformative evolution. The episode began at the dawn of her creation, as she lay on a slab in a workshop. Throughout the show’s first season, Maeve, with her penetrating and cool violence, often seemed closer to liberation than Dolores, who was always _this close _to breaking down. Instead, the robots staged their liberation from within, and-thanks to an eleventh-hour flourish by Ford-arose to dominate Westworld, not to defy it. In fleeing their engineered lives and games, though, none of the show’s androids-nor, indeed, any of the humans-ended up making it out of the park’s walls. Among the guests, the cold-blooded Man in Black approached the center of the mysterious maze, an achievement that he hoped might herald an upending of the park’s unnatural order. Heading into last night’s season finale of “Westworld,” the show’s android hosts were poised to finally, as our President-elect might put it, throw off their shackles: Maeve was plotting an escape into the human world, and Dolores was moving closer to the core of her own memories and identity.
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