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Ep.114: Westworld - 404 - Generation Loss

Westworld

Shat on Entertainment

Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Episode 4 put the puzzle pieces together for "Westworld" Season 4, giving us a clearer picture of what's happening and what's to come. In this Deep Dive episode, the Shat Crew looks into the series' central question: What is it to be human?

Gene digs into what makes Caleb special and why Charlores would desire a fidelity-tested version of our hero. Ash outlines the nature and structure of the New World Order. And we debut a new game called "Explain Me This."

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Westworld Episode 4 Summary:
Christina's roommate Maya sets her up on a date with "Teddy". Charlotte explains to Caleb that she is using the Temperance park to infect humans with a parasite that allows them to be controlled by sound. Maeve and Caleb abduct Charlotte. As they flee the park, Maeve recounts to Caleb that after he was wounded during their mission to eliminate the final copy of Rehoboam, Maeve left him in the care of Uwade – a nurse at the time – and only attempted to remotely reach out to him years later, which enabled Charlotte to find them. They take shelter at a nearby park expansion area, where Caleb calls for help. William arrives and mortally wounds Maeve, but she triggers explosives that kill them both and knock out Caleb. When Caleb awakens, Charlotte reveals that he is a host who has been reliving the moments leading to his death 23 years prior. Caleb discovers that he is actually in New York City, whose entire population has since fallen under Charlotte's control. Bernard and the adult Frankie (who is part of the rebel group) excavate Maeve's body at the site of the explosion in the desert.

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0:00.0

I hope this is Lewis Herthon, the original Peter Abernathy, hell is empty and all the

0:05.6

devils are here on the Shadow TV Westworld podcast, the Roger, G, and Big D.

0:20.6

Welcome back to Shadow TV Westworld, the unofficial podcast companion piece of the

0:24.7

hit HBO series Westworld. I'm one of your host Gene Lines, alongside me as my co-host, Ash.

0:30.8

And this is our deep dive episode where we look back on this week's edition of Westworld and

0:35.4

provide our thoughts and analysis 24 hours after watching the episode. So we've had a little more

0:41.5

time to digest, but gave you our instant take on Sunday. Now it's time for us to dig into some

0:46.7

topics a little more thoroughly. And this week's topics include a return to Westworld's central

0:51.8

question, why Caleb is special and what's with this new world? We'll also get into a couple of odds

0:57.1

and ends. I play a new little game I came up with called explain me this, but we're going to

1:01.8

kick off with the biggest topic of the week, which is Westworld's central question.

1:06.4

I think it's really important for us to remember four seasons and what this show started out as.

1:13.2

And I have to be honest, I had forgotten. And if it hadn't been for this podcast, I would not have

1:18.7

ever gone back and rewatch seasons one through three prior to this season, but I'm so glad that I

1:24.6

did because now as season four is kind of unfolding and we're getting into the meaty parts of it.

1:31.1

I think it's really important for us to connect it to the other seasons.

1:35.4

I'm glad you brought that up because I also did a rewatch prior to season four. And I feel like a

1:40.1

person who just jumped in on the season might think that this is a fairly superficial run of the

1:43.8

mill sci-fi show, but you get a lot of depth from the background on everything that we're seeing.

1:49.8

And I think it's really meant to be seen as a whole. It is. And we've talked about this before,

1:54.5

that I think Westworld does a show that benefits from a binge model. I enjoy this show,

1:59.9

including season three, which if you listen to our podcast, I was not the most massive fan of.

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