Even after Ford’s death, the characters of Westworld continued talking about stories, up to and including the very last line of Season 2.
If you wanted a coherent journey about people with identifiable goals, well … have you tried The Handmaid’s Tale?
And yet the deeper the series went into its web of conspiracies, timelines, and tricks, the further its drifted from the narratives that made its first season compelling.
(“We are are the authors of our stories now,” Dolores says in voiceover.)