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Ep.81: Westworld - 302 - The Winter Line

Westworld

Shat on Entertainment

Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Shat on TV's coverage of Westworld Season 3, Episode 2: "The Winter Line" starts off intelligently with discussions of free will vs sentience, the nuance between hero and villain, and Ash's brilliant overview of Louis Althusser's views of subjection and the state.

Things take a turn as Dick Ebert unveils his latest treatise: "Rahobo, The God Humans Need," force-feeding Gene enough tinfoil to spark a Divergence.

Suddenly, it's Big D worshipping at the altar of Coconut Guy, Gene Lyons offering to kill Dick to save the world, Ashley classifying Serac's accoutrement as "Bond Villain," an extended team giggle-fest, and the Shat Boys getting way to specific about Westworld's timelines.

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Westworld Episode 2 Summary: "The Winter Line"
Bernard returns to Westworld and discovers the Ashley host is still functioning. With Ashley's help, they find the Maeve host, but it is lacking its "pearl" and that it is no longer in the park. Bernard uses the systems there to verify that Dolores had not contaminated his code, and discovers Dolores targeted several prior park guests including Liam. He reprograms Ashley to help protect him as they return to the mainland. Maeve is rescued from Warworld by Hector but realizes this is another narrative and kills herself to come to in Operations, discovering Lee is alive and wants to help get her to the Forge. However, Maeve soon realizes that this is all a virtual simulation, and after testing its bounds, is able to break her pearl free from its real-world location, but guards stop the attempt. She wakes in a real-world host body and meets Serac, who, after initially thinking she was the major disruption on the system he built, wants her help to stop Dolores.

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0:00.0

Come on, wait, I want you to say the title.

0:02.0

Say the title of my bucket.

0:03.7

The title of your bucket is Rehobo,

0:06.3

The God Humans Need.

0:08.3

But unfortunately, our titles always end

0:11.3

with the name of the person who's responsible for that bucket.

0:14.0

So your title says, Rehobo, the God humans need dick.

0:19.0

Hi folks, this is Louis Hurkin the original Peter Abernathie.

0:25.4

Hell is empty and all the devils are here on the Shadon TV

0:29.6

West World Podcast with Roger, Gene, and Big Me. Welcome back to Shadd on TV Westworld, the unofficial podcast companion piece to the hit

0:47.1

HBO series Westworld. I'm one of your host Jean Lyons and alongside me are my two co-host, Big D, Dick Ebert.

0:55.0

Good evening.

0:55.9

And Ashley Schlafly.

0:56.9

Hi, y'all.

0:58.1

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

1:03.5

analysis. This week's episode was titled The Winter Line gang it's been a

1:08.3

full day since we released our insticast we've had time now to re-watch, reassess, and do a little bit of research.

1:15.3

So now that we've come back and regrouped, any different feelings about the episode, any new observations? Well once you reveal the trick, the simulation portion, the first half of the episode becomes a little bit more tedious.

1:29.0

As you're watching, you know it. I think we're going to gain very little from that part I did

1:34.2

focus more on the Bernard portion and as much as I can say it's not my favorite

1:39.8

episode I understand what it was needed for it put some pieces together for me that led me down a crazy tin foil rabbit hole that I'll discuss later, even though I know Gene isn't happy about it.

1:50.0

I still wasn't a big fan of it. I have to agree and I'm sure that we'll

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