Meanwhile, there’s also a debate whether to pull Dolores from duty after the events last week. One thing is for certain: The hosts are not back to normal. They’re the TV show’s versions of the protagonists of the Westworld feature film. There’s a series of scenes as Maeve gets put through the wringer, programming-wise. They’re told the MiB “gets to do whatever he wants.” The MiB is very much a VIP, it seems. Who set up this deeper level? He asks what most people do, and she assures him he doesn’t have to worry about that — throw out your social norms, you’re in Westworld now! How much does Dolores remember from last week’s events now that her core programming — which is supposed to prevent her from accessing the memories of her previous lives — is no longer intact? Dolores then asks a very interesting question: “Have you done something wrong?” Bernard tells her to delete their conversation. Perhaps the most interesting thing about their arrival is that we get to see Westworld’s orientation process (or rather, it’s disorientation process). On his way out, William chooses White Hat, of course. “The maze isn’t meant for you,” she intones impassively, then gives him a riddle to solve: “Follow the blood arrow to the place where the snake lays its eggs.”. We’re not sure what it was about. “Can you imagine how f—ed we’d be if these poor assholes ever remembered what the guests do to them?” Elise wonders aloud. She stumbles onto a room that’s used for stripping down and cleaning “dead” hosts. Time hops, robo revolutions and a clearer map of the park. One of my colleagues was most upset instead by the mass shooting scene (also understandably). Backstage, Bernard and Dolores are finishing a chat. They put Maeve out in the saloon again. He meets up with black-hat Logan and they enter what appears to be a narrow saloon. She informs William that there are no formal guidebooks or instructions and that “figuring out how it works is half the fun.” Apparently Westworld has revolutionized theme parks in one of the ways that Steve Jobs did with personal electronics — no instruction manuals, just let the user figure out their iPods and iPhones and robo-brothels all on their own (though nobody would ever describe trying to import your music files into iTunes as “half the fun”). The Best Reactions to the Premiere. She counts backward from 3… 2… 1. Or is the MiB somehow hacking the game? Either way, that’s the big question, isn’t it? A Westworld Season 2 Recap That's Significantly Less Confusing Than Westworld Three Esquire editors got their robotics PhDs in time to catch you up for Season Three. It’s a very deep rabbit hole. © Copyright 2020 Meredith Corporation. She grabs a scalpel, slipping in her own blood, and freaks out at the repair techs. A host makes a horrifying discovery By James Hibberd. First Maeve tries to seduce a guest and then suddenly spaces out with a… memory?… of being attacked by a Native American in war paint — the first sign she’s caught Dolores’ virtual cold. RELATED: Your Burning Westworld Questions Answered. — “The maze isn’t meant for you” … is it a hosts-only maze? Okay, so that didn’t work. Months or even years can go into making a pilot, after all, but the second episode sometimes has to be turned around in just a month or two. Westworld first premiered on HBO back in … This leads into the episode’s most harrowing sequence: Maeve is having a nightmare — a memory, we now realize — of a previous life, living with a daughter. The MiB gets Lawrence’s wife and daughter and orders them to reveal where the maze is. Elise’s theory is that Dr. Ford screwed up and that Bernard covered for him. They want a glimpse of who they could be. He drags Lawrence to a distant town and marvels about how he’s played in Westworld for years and thought he knew all of Lawrence’s secrets, but he never knew he had a family. Cullen says corporate wants to know if everything is on track for “the launch.” If that confuses you, it’s supposed to. Apparently the Native American whom he scalped for a head-map has led him to a criminal: Lawrence, who’s about to be hanged. 30 essential albums from the last 30 years, interview with showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Next time, savvy programmer Elise steps in. This time she’s way too pushy, grabbing a female guest’s crotch. Here’s the writer of Westworld — the theme park, not the HBO show — all excited about his garish new creation, and Ford playing the role of the critic: No, aim higher, we can do better. Westworld’s writer Lee is quite excited about a new story line he’s set to unveil: “Odyssey On Red River.” Vivisection! Westworld recap: Season 1, Episode 2, Chestnut. It’s a neat trick when the saloon is revealed to be the train that takes guests to Sweetwater. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. Westworld staff? Many were upset by last week’s Dolores scene (understandably). She’s oozing seductive allure this whole time, and we’re wondering what’s going to happen next. This is also what Elise said to Maeve when getting her to change awareness modes, so you wonder if that’s where Maeve first unconsciously picked this trick up. But wait, hold on again. He says she seems different and finds it fascinating, “but others may not see it that way.”. Everything else is artificial in the park, why not the flies? William spots Dolores, the world’s most klutzy carrier of canned goods. We want to warn him to stay away; her story never seems to end well. She gives the MiB a message. We watch the kid closely, playing the “real or not real?” game. She also casually reveals that the hosts don’t dream, pointing out dreams are “mainly memories.” This basically confirms the hosts’ nightmares are indeed their past lives. Or working there, somehow? So we’re going to need a Westworld recap before we dive into Westworld Season 3 on HBO this weekend. Exactly why she woke up and whether she’ll remember any of this is still unclear. This feels a bit out of the blue, given Cullen’s sharp comments directed at Bernard in front of the staff last week. They threaten to decommission Maeve down into cold storage if she doesn’t become more bang-able ASAP. You could say they’re a bit one-dimensional, but given the flurry of multi-dimensional crypto-mystery figures we met last week, it actually comes as a relief to focus our brains on two archetypal guys (they’re very black hat / white hat, if you will). Offers may be subject to change without notice. Yes, she’s willing, but only because she’s programmed to be willing by her masters, whereas Dolores was programmed to be chaste by the same people. I suspect many viewers are on a knife edge right here, and if this scene had pushed the brutality just a little further, they would have done the casino dealer “I’m-outta-here” clap and switched off. Just last week, a London business announced a robot oral sex coffeehouse, of all things (so many potential jokes, none appropriate). Then he basically gives a retort to both Lee and Logan, who earlier told William that the park will reveal his true self: “[The visitors] already know who they are. Suddenly when the daughter breaks character, we’re reminded: Oh yeah, she’s a robot. EW’s What to Watch podcast asked me after the premiere if the fly crawling on Dolores’ face was real, a question which at first struck me as silly, and then not. Given that the town has an anything-goes sex-house and regular mass murders in the street, we wonder what could possibly be happening a few miles down the road; last week’s events alone were enough to put a vacationing kid in therapy for years. So often we watch a splashy drama series pilot and then week 2 feels like a clear step down — slower, less expensive, sloppier writing. He commands the boy to leave, and we realize, yes, a host — and sort of an odd one to have wandering the desert, don’t you think? For more coverage, check out our interview with showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy where we ask some our burning questions about the second episdoe, plus our Q&A with Thandie Newton. The finale of Westworld Season One aired a year and four months ago. He notes that when it comes to the hosts, “When you’re suffering that’s when you’re the most real,” which is also a strategy the Westworld producers use to get us to empathize with their androids — when they suffer, we feel and relate to them more. But Dr. Ford is decidedly not impressed: “No,” he says. First the fly, and now she’s armed. By James Hibberd Westworld HBO's ambitious science-fiction thriller 'Westworld' is based on the 1973 Michael Crichton film of the same name. The MiB kills Lawrence’s wife. Another beat on this was Cullen’s self-aware sarcasm earlier in the hour: “We wouldn’t want anything disturbing our guests from their rape and pillage.”. We also learn Bernard and Cullen have a romantic relationship. SEASON 2, EPISODE 1 RECAP. When we hear things like that, I suspect nearly all of us are repulsed by this idea — ew, gross, who would want to do that? Was this planted here for her to find? Self cannibalism! Can Google please hire Jeffrey Wright to become a Waze navigation voice? Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. So they do what plenty of lonely, aging singles have tried on Tinder: Ramp up the aggression by 200 percent. They worry she might have a virus and could be contagious. This represents Ford’s plan to evolve the park, his next story line, something “original.” But how? She collapses in horror, overwhelmed in shock by the true nature of her world. She’s so believably wounded, traumatized, and lost here. Dolores, meanwhile, is having some freaky memories, like an image of all the townsfolk dead and a direwolf, er, wolf trotting through the street. — Does this maze mystery represent something that a guest is supposed to be able to find? Yup, that’s precisely what we’ve imagining. “I can help you [change] or, if you prefer, I can step outside,” she says. After the techs recapture Maeve, they decide not to report what happened out of fear of being blamed. There have been weekly headlines lately about the development of so-called real-life sexbots. Maeve goes from a sleeping nightmare and into a waking nightmare — on the operating table as two techs repair her wound. The tech team is annoyed: How dare a host fail to give a guest a boner! Since we’re seeing this scene from William’s perspective, Westworld is putting us in his position and making us ask ourselves: What would I do? Another Mystery for the pile. Is this like going into one of the sneakily hidden doors in Disneyland that take you into its underground catacombs? It’s a choice that isn’t as far off as you might think. Westworld recap: Season 1, Episode 2, Chestnut. So how do we feel now about what just happened? We understand them immediately, or at least think we do: Logan is the arrogant jerk, and William is the passive nice guy. Maeve goes back into her saloon, and we hear Radiohead as this week’s player piano Name That Tune (“No Surprises”). The MiB enters to kill her. We think he’s married to Logan’s sister, but Logan has noted that his sister, surely, slept with a few cowboys during her visit to Westworld. Westworld recap: Season 1, Episode 2, Chestnut. — “I’m never going back.” So the MiB plans to stay in Westworld forever? With his consciousness uploaded into a host-body, like we speculated last week? this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. That’s a stunning line — the show’s central conflict wrapped up in one zinger comeback. Elsewhere, the Man in Black is playing his own version of Red Dead Redemption. There’s so much to unpack in this scene, it’s like a bulging suitcase: — We were reacting to the mother and daughter like they’re human, and felt totally sympathetic at their suffering. On the streets of Sweetwater, we learn this is the park’s safest and most family-friendly area. Back in the control room, the narrative guys monitoring his adventure consider slowing him down somehow since he’s racking up quite an expensive body count. She runs outside, abdomen cut open, fully nude, in this strange coldly impersonal facility that’s almost impossible for her to comprehend. She thinks Maeve is not hopeless, just getting a poor script. “This place is the answer to that question: Who you really are,” Logan proclaims, “and I can’t wait to meet that guy.” Logan cynically assumes William’s true self — everybody’s true self, probably — is just as lusty and bloodthirsty as he is. Yet tonight’s Westworld, titled “Chestnut,” threw even more mysteries into our laps, polished the characters, and added a pair of promising newcomers. 20 actors who played multiple roles on the same show, What to Watch: Here are the TV shows your favorite celebrities are binge-watching, 14 Father's Day Gifts for Pop Culture Fans, Westworld finale recap: Season 1, Episode 10, Westworld recap: Season 1, Episode 7 twist, Westworld recap: Season 1, Episode 6, The Adversary, Westworld recap: Season 1, Episode 5, Contrapasso, Westworld recap: Season 1, Episode 4, Dissonance Theory. So let’s step into analysis and break down episode 2: Dolores hears a voice: “Do you remember?” I assume this is Bernard’s voice (outside chance, Stubbs’?). They come upon a rattlesnake and Dr. Ford halts it — the snake is robotic too. Dolores steps outside and digs up a gun. Because in a way, this scene is the mirror of last week’s Man in Black-attacking-Dolores scene. NEXT: “When I waked, I cried to dream again”. Teddy is in there, and many others she surely recognizes as well. Does Westworld feel like a maze to you? William is greeted by a Scarlett Johansson-esque hostess bot who takes him into a private set of changing rooms. The MiB rescues him and explains he’s searching for a “deeper level” in this game, and that Lawrence is going to help him find the entrance. The guest is creeped out by this Donald Trump-ian seduction tactic. Does he fool around with this host? October 10, 2016 at 02:53 AM EDT Advertisement. The MiB kills Lawrence’s gang. If you need a quick Season 1 refresher to orient yourself for Season 2, allow us to lead you through the story. Back in Sweetwater, more violence. We pick up little expositional clues from their conversation that William is married to Logan’s sister and that they also work at the same company (we assume Logan is the boss). If anything, the pace quickened. This moment is William’s first choice: the initial A-or-B option in his Choose Your Own Westworld Adventure. She’s not Analysis Mode Maeve, but fully conscious as her 19th century brothel owner self. The only thing your story tells me, Mr. Sizemore, is who you are.”, Sizemore gives a whiney reply that every writer has desperately thought while reading online comments slamming their story: “Well, isn’t there anything you like about it?”, This scene is partly what I was referring to last week when I wrote about the Dolores controversy; how Westworld is a critique of traditional entertainment. Bernard also assures her “all the hosts are back to normal.”. Instead, Dr. Ford ventures into the park and meets a boy. But after watching this scene, the way it’s acted and shot, some of us might feel differently. She goes to brothel owner Maeve and says that phrase her father told her last week: “These violent delights have violent ends.” Westworld techs embed programming in verbal commands, so this is Dolores spreading whatever virtual cold she caught to Maeve. This assumes several things that may or may not be true: That the glitch is Ford’s fault, that the effects of the glitch are an accident, and that Bernard is blameless, aside from covering it up. We go to a pair of visitors stepping off some fancy future-train: Logan (played by Ben “Prince Caspian” Barnes) and William (Jimmi Simpson). She presents him with an array of clothes and weapons, all fitted to his size. The series developed by Jonathan Nolan stars Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, and more top names. To paraphrase the host: If they’re not human, is it really cheating? She bumps Maeve’s “emotional equity” and sends her back into the field. I found this scene the most disturbing. “If you can’t tell, does it matter?” she replies. Lawrence’s daughter abruptly breaks character. I think a lot of it is due to Thandie Newton’s performance. She takes the advice she gave earlier on how to wake herself up. Dr. Ford finds what he’s looking for, an odd structure with a church steeple. You bastards! HBO's ambitious science-fiction thriller 'Westworld' is based on the 1973 Michael Crichton film of the same name. A guest kills Teddy, again, just for the hell of it. Say it with me now: Oh my god, you’ve killed Teddy! Ask yourself: If William did have sex with the Johansson-bot, is that really different than the MiB’s presumed rape of Dolores? If the Westworld premiere intrigued you — and “intrigued” was the word I saw most often among tweeted reactions last Sunday — I suspect the second episode hooked you. It’s one that we suspect she may have never said before. She’s not young or old, she’s a machine. They’re also still unsure as to the exact source of the glitch. The more you venture toward the park’s edges, the more “intense” the experience gets. This time Maeve transfixes a guest (who goes off with a different girl, but still — it seems the latest configuration has put Maeve back in the game). This is also an example of full nudity used for major emotional impact, amplifying Maeve’s vulnerability and showing how the hosts are denied any kind of dignity.
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