[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Westworld” Season 3, Episode 7, “Passed Pawn.”]Aaron Paul is staring directly into the camera.
Tears are filling his eyes.
But he isn’t talking to the viewer.
Not really.
He’s not really talking to anyone.
The former “Breaking Bad” star is straining to convey the pain his “Westworld” character, Caleb Nichols, feels at this climactic moment.
Finally, after weeks spent seeing flashes of a traumatic past, strapped to a chair, caught in a war, or holding a dying friend, Caleb is learning the truth: that the truth was erased from his mind and replaced with false memories.
The traumatic thoughts he’s struggled to reconcile weren’t based on reality, but what a computer simulation said was best for a future reality.
All his suffering was not only a lie, but a lie purposefully constructed by powerful people to keep him in line.More from IndieWire’Outlander’ Review: A Female Character
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