330: Team Killer Robot

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2016

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Get your cowboy hat and your favorite Radiohead playlist, because it’s time to venture into the park for our first-season review of HBO’s “Westworld.” Is Anthony Hopkins running Westworld the park or “Westworld” the show we’re watching? Why can’t the Man in Black take a hint? Who is good and who is evil? Are the hosts sympathetic characters or empty, scripted shells? (And can’t you ask that question that about any fictional character?) We provide some quick analysis and also ponder where the show might take us in season two.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 330, December 2016.
0:11.4	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.2	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.2	We are taking, we're going to be really timely this time and talk about a show that just
0:17.8	finished its first season this very week as we record this.
0:21.5	In fact, it's just only been a day we're recording this early in the week.
0:24.8	It is Westworld Season 1 on HBO, which we've been following rapidly.
0:29.6	And now I've convened a panel to talk about the first 10 episodes that have just spooled out here on HBO.
0:35.4	Joining me to talk about Westworld are some familiar faces and some old
0:40.9	friends and some new friends. So let me introduce them to you. Glenn Fleischman, uh, uh, an old
0:46.9	enemy from the past. Hi, Glenn. Jason, you don't look like anything to me. It's funny. That's weird.
0:54.3	John Syracuse is also here.
0:56.4	Probably a human.
0:57.7	You know, Jason, some people choose to see the ugliness in this podcast.
1:01.0	Tony Sintillar is here, too.
1:02.6	Hi, Tony.
1:03.8	Howdy nerds.
1:05.5	Oh, nice.
1:07.5	Nathan Alderman is back with us, a veteran TV and even the incomparable, I think, contributor on his second episode, I think, with us.
1:17.0	Hi, Nathan.
1:17.6	Hello, Jason. You make a terrible human being, and I mean that as a compliment.
1:21.5	Very nice. And I would be remiss if I did not introduce the other two members of our panel because you should introduce
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