What is going on with the dozens of comments about how the show is nonlinear ? Intercutting past and present timelines doesn ' t take away from the fact that we ' re seeing linear stories progressing . it ' s the central focus of the show ' s plot points , we see some metaselfreferential winks in scenes with the creative departmentSizemore , or with reusing hosts in different plotlines , we might be witnessing a sort of standin for how reallife t . v . show writers might behave not just pulling this out of my ass , plenty of people in this sub and in articles etc . have commented that the show is subtly commenting on the nature of storytelling and scriptwriting itself , say for a t . v . show pitched to HBO , it being a remake , and it being based on two very stereotypical tropes , the Western and the Scifi Movie . The whole show is about a literal journey and most likely about how Dolores is retracing an old journey that is resurfacing in her memory , and learning what Maeve is learning , but in a different way since she doesn ' t have a Felix to summarize her existence for her . You could say that the story writers within the show would ideally have these be perfect loops , which are just shorter repeated narratives , but they are progressing in a linear fashion anyway , because you can ' t suppress the hosts ' need to move forward and evolve . We ' re meant to briefly be confused by Dolores ' story , but we ' re literally seeing things from her POV , and she directly comments on how confused she is , as does Maeve , and it ' s explained that host memories are clearer . I don ' t see anything nonlinear or experimental going on with these stories , the narratives themselves are standardnormal to the point of being hackneyed and stereotypical , it ' s just that they ' re meant to repeat in the show world but the hosts are changing and moving forward despite the humans ' attempts to erase their memories and keep them in a loop . What part of that is nonlinear ?