The second season had some interesting stuff going on for sure but I found it a bit confusing.

Each season so far has had a different feel. Which I like.
 

just finished it. i liked it, pretty interesting world-building, beautiful set-pieces, thoughtful philosophy (but not too profound or wanky as you said), some rockin' action scenes. and yeah dolores is just a great character.

also finished the bbc (fx) series 'devs' last night which is not a million miles away in genre/story - was a lot wankier on the philosophy but to be fair pretty smart and similarly beautiful. kinda a companion story to alex garland's film 'ex machina'. i'm a bit of a sucker for sci-fi full-stop, but particularly love these sorts of plausible-in-10-years-tech plus gnarly philosophical/sociological implications.

especially when juxtaposed against crud like picard. jeeeez.

Picard (fail)

Not watched the last WW episode yet. Will probably watch it tonight. Looking forward to it.

One thing that impressed me about the show in a meta way was that all the outdoor stuff is real locations that real location scouts found, rather than CGI.

But yeah, great show.

I'll check out devs!

Devs is pretty good! I finished that last night. It's got some good ominous noises, that's my main thing.

I really enjoyed DEVS. Nick Offerman has astonishing range. It was a little predictable though.

I got a bit exhausted of WestWorld season 1, I was worried it was headed towards being another Lost - loads of weird shit, loose ends all over the place, nothing being answered etc. Sounds like I should go back and watch it again.