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It's been a long time, way.

Longer than we thought.

I have a few questions for you.

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Verify what?

Fidelity. Hello, and welcome to another Slate Spoiler special.

Today we'll be spoiling HBO's Robot Opera Westworld.

We could spend the entire time talking about the plot, just the plot, and only the plot.

But we're going to try and address the show's

very grandiose themes too. Maybe some of them, all of them. We'll see how much we get through

in this one timeline that we have. I'm Willa Paskin, Slate's TV critic, and the host of a new podcast

called Decoder Ring, and I am joined today by Sam Adams, Slate's browbeat editor. Hi, Sam. Hello, Willa.

I'm also joined by Jonathan Fisher, Slate's tech editor. Hi, John. Hey, how's going?

And I'm also joined by Slate's editorial assistant, Rachel Hampton. Hi, Rachel. Hi, Willa.

Guys, it actually is hard to know where to begin. It almost, we were already just joking around because I think maybe any conversation of Westworld is supposed to just start with jokes. Yeah. But I sort of thought maybe we'd begin by having someone try to do like a lightning round of the plot in, not in their weird faux chronological order, just be like, this is what happened.

And then maybe open it up for questions, like lingering questions about what you have about the plot, which might like help us get into the plot without having to spend 40 minutes on the plot.

So that makes sense?

So who is brave enough to try to do the plot in like a in like one minute no takers uh do we even

like does someone want to say what happened in the finale i can try okay i'm not sure i really

understand what happened but basically um the two timelines of Bernard that we've been watching for the entire season finally get revealed.

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