Oh Westworld, you’ve done it again. Season 3 Episode 4, titled “The Mother of Exiles,” packed a hefty dose of exposition and backstory into a single hour of storytelling and ended on a massive twist, as we finally learned who’s inside those host bodies that Dolores has created. Written by Jordan Goldberg and Lisa Joy and directed by Paul Cameron, who served as the HBO show’s cinematographer for the pilot and the Season 3 premiere (click here to read my spoiler-filled interview with Cameron about Episode 4), the episode took viewers on a rollicking roller coaster …
Twist endings certainly aren’t a must. Many classic video games have ended as expected — with the hero rescuing the princess from the clutches of an evil villain. But then there are those games that go wildly against the grain and seek to reinvent the very genre that they exist in.