(CNN) This review contains spoilers from Sunday's "Westworld" season finale. "Westworld," appropriately, had a maze at the center of its story, since its arcane and elaborate plot often resembled one. Yet while the HBO series departed from its source movie -- in ways both ambitious and occasionally frustrating -- the 90-minute finale seemingly circled back to it. Showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (who wrote Sunday's episode, with Nolan directing) have incorporated callbacks to Michael Crichton's 1973 film during the 10-chapter run. For committed fans, the show presented a kind of puzzle, with many of their theories explicitly validated by the exposition-heavy finale.

Source: CNN December 05, 2016 05:00 UTC