Hi folks this is Louis Herkin the original Peter Abernathy.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here on the Shad on TV West for a podcast

to Roger, Gene, and take me.

Welcome back to Shadd on TV West World Edition, the unofficial podcast companion piece for the hit

HBO series West World. I am one of your three co-hosts, Roger Roper and alongside

me are my two co-hosthost, Big D Dick Ebert.

Good evening.

And Jean an adequate Seismore, Lyons.

Not all of us deserve to make it into the valley beyond.

And this is our deep dive episode where we look back on season 2 episode 1 journey in tonight and talk about some of the big themes, topics, and overarching ideas related to the season premiere.

Like I said, this episode was entitled Journey in Tonight.

If you haven't listened to our podcast before, we do an

insta cast, a deep dive, and a fan read and response telegraph episode on

Thursday and unlike other podcasts we don't go in a linear format breaking down plot by

plot we're going to talk about big over-erching ideas and and things we had a

great insta cast it was fantastic to be back on the podcast after 18 months away.

I've gone back. I've watched it now, two and a half times.

And I still think it holds up. I think it's a pretty solid episode. Have your opinions changed at all since last evening?

Well, I did take Big Dea's advice and watch it a second time and really play closer attention

in a slightly quieter setting.

And I think that my views have softened a bit.

I also went back and watched bits of the season one finale to kind of catch the

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