The looped story arc of "Westworld" starts with a can rolling along the dusty road where an innocent young William (Jimmi Simpson) gathers it up and offers it back to Dolores, and ultimately the show ultimately evolves from his fruitless and bloodthirsty "romantic" pursuit of Dolores to his fruitless and bloodthirsty quest for revenge on both the park's hosts and the outside world. Without any empathy or compassion, he ruthlessly pursues wealth in the real world while single-mindedly and unsuccessfully seeking the center of the maze inside the park.
Along the way, he alienates his own daughter Emily (Katja Herbers), who also falls victim to the park's siren song and dies semi-accidentally at the hand of her now-ruined father. But the show began as the William and Dolores story, with Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) and Maeve taking the reins later on in an attempt to make their visions for the park and the outside world come to be.
If we are to name a winner and a loser in the series as it ended, clearly William is the loser, having lost his family and killed himself so many times that even he doesn't know who he is anymore. The series ultimately became about William's nosedive into madness in reaction to his failure to woo Dolores with either charm or violence, and the toxic road that he ends up traveling ultimately costs his wife and daughter their lives as well.
