A Simple Guide to Westworld’s Multiple Timelines

 

"By now, it's clear that Westworld has carefully manipulated its audience through clever editing and narrative sleight of hand. The HBO show is a Russian nesting doll of stories with flashbacks within flashbacks, often cut together in time-jarring sequences, so ahead of next Sunday's season finale, let's pull those pieces apart. It's time to put the chronology of Westworld together, in order, from the very beginning.
We promise this isn't as confusing as it seems. Let's get to it."

A Simple Guide to Westworld’s Multiple Timelines -- Vulture