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Success! Just watched Westworld again. Naturally you could identify Joplin; it was the Pineapple Rag...and the Carmen suite. The one I couldn't get was the player piano; "The Forest" by The Cure. This music guy is so tricky, I like him.

Please let's see James Marsden on Sunday night.

I'm still loving it. Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie are fantastic. Hope we get a lot more of Thandie in the weeks to come. Also, I have to wonder if we're watching stories in alternate timelines. It's never explicitly confirmed that the conversations that Anthony Hopkins and Jeffrey Wright are having with Delores etc. are happening immediately after the scenes in-the-park with guests.

There's a lot of theorizing about timelines- the interviews between Dolores and Ford & Bernard do suggest them, otherwise they don't make a lot of sense. Hopefully now that everything seems to be set up, we can start unraveling the mysteries.

When was the last time Hopkins was this good, though?

Watched the most recent episodes back to back. Very cool indeed. With one or two major exceptions, this is one of the best acted shows on TV.

So do gay men not go to Westworld? There's plenty of female same-sex activity shown, worked into the sidelines during orgy and brothel scenes, but I can't remember a single instance of male same-sex activity going on. A quibble, but given the show's aggressive depiction of sexuality, a telling absence.

I guess it was inevitable that

I'm digging the show. I'm hoping that the player piano will keep on working, I really enjoyed the Radiohead tunes it was playing.

At some point, early in the episode, I thought, "Oh, I just caught a glimpse of Hannibal Lecter from Anthony..." I should have known stuff was about to shift.

Well that was interesting, wasn't it.

Other than that scene mentioned above, I thought this was the most exciting new show this television season. The ed Harris reveal didn't really come as a shock to me, but I thought it was extremely clever. The other reveals were nice too. I don't like how they ended Maeves story, I either wanted to see her leave the park or find her daughter.

I think that glimpse of samurai world is hinting at a second season.

Roscoe, I was very disappointed by that scene as well, which was as icky as an earlier scene of Elsie talking about a black droid's large dick in a way that recalled some of the most exploitative portrayals of hypersexualized blackness.

I just love this show and loved this season. The Internet ruined the MIB twist but I still enjoyed seeing the reveal and the way the story unfolded at the end was wonderful. Anthony Hopkins reminded me why he is an Oscar winner, his delicate work in the finale was masterful. And Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton have never been better. Oh and Jeffrey Wright! Really, an embarrassment of riches.

I finished watching this series last night, and thought it was brilliant. Maybe the best show on TV right now. HBO is really killing it right now. It seems like they have all the best shows.

Artificial intelligence normally doesn't interest me as a subject, but this show has taken it to a new level, becoming the "movie" that the likes of AI and Ex Machina wanted to be but didn't quite succeed at. It explores so many interesting ideas about fatalism versus determinism and our need for stories. I feel like it even works as a prequel to Battlestar Galactica.

Yeah, I watched it -- it was pretty good. I went in cold, without revisiting the First Season Finale. Glad to see Jeffrey Wright as always, and the sublime Ms. Newton. We'll see where it goes. Maybe they'l put aside the gratuitous homophobia that left such a vile stain on the last episode.

So here's a question:

Never watched the show but I hear the first episode of this season had full frontal male nudity. Maybe now is the time to check it out. :)

I lost interest about 5 episodes into the first season. I just found it...dull. What I loved about the original film was its terrifying perspective from the POV of the guests. I found this was the reverse and basically just another adaptation of Asimov's Robot canon and I got bored. If Marsden gets naked, then I'd go back to it, but I didn't see this heading in an interesting direction.