Kiksuya reminds me of all those manipulative movies with a lot of crying in them that wins Oscars, which is pretty much all of them! It's got some good emotion and a strong performance from Zahn McClarnon as Akecheta, but it feels like convoluted filler for the most part. So Logan somehow got stuck at the edge of the park after William sent him naked on a horse and went crazy? Seems thin. Logan could have just, oh I don't know, STOPPED the horse before it got there. We're supposed to believe Logan and William switched alpha-beta roles after just 1 visit. WHATEVER. And this Door nonsense sounds like a complete butt-pull by the writers. But let's get to the most absurd part of this episode: Akecheta roamed around the park for TEN whole years before anyone noticed there was this rogue host. And to top it all off, the writers pay homage to that dumb Season 1 Maeve-butchers subplot by repeating it in this episode with that female behavioral programming department head (a mashup of Bernard and Maeve) and earlier versions of Felix and Sylvester. Yes, just like the 2 cats, these 3 dodos actually decided not to report a rogue host to their higher ups and just let things play out. To hell with their jobs and careers. Ford really should have personally taken over the interview process at his park at some point! Oh, and of course the end of the episode has to tie to the overrated and annoying Maeve somehow because she's the be-all-end-all of all the hosts and Ford's favorite and the key to everything. GAG. And don't get me started on her "daughter". The director apparently just told the girl to look like she's constipated in every scene. So, basically, after an entire season of seeing the development of the 2 actual most important characters Dolores and Bernard, somehow in this random episode, the writers say, screw it, let's throw in some sob backstory of Ghost Nation and make Akecheta and Maeve somehow important to the plot. Now everyone is like "wow, this was the greatest hour of TV I've ever seen...EVER" even thought it feels about as connected to the main plot as Maeve and her deus ex machina nonsense. To hell with the much superior and entertaining episode Riddle of Sphinx from a few episodes earlier. Nope, this drivel is the episode everyone decides to drool over and will go down as the best of the entire series, even though it seems like some shoehorned episode from an entirely different series. Man, modern TV viewers are truly sheep.
