![]() It’s a lot of characters and a lot of plot threads to trace. yet all have large roles and were added to the cast after the initial pilot was shot. All that and the show hasn’t even introduced Jimmi Simpson, Ben Barnes, and Clifton Collins Jr. On the human side, there’s Anthony Hopkins as the mad genius, Jeffrey Wright as his protégé, Shannon Woodward as his sidekick, Luke Hemsworth as security, Simon Quarterman’s game master, and the splendid Knudsen as management’s proxy. Sidse Babett Knudsen’s operations director sneers knowingly that the park’s guests just want to “shoot or fuck something” and, of course, the trouble that sparks off the series is the fact that the robots/victims are becoming aware as well.Īnd those are just the robots. Here are all the bloody, naked delights of Game of Thrones-but, don’t you see, the creators of this western world are aware of the nasty messages they’re enforcing. The first sexual assault occurs within the pilot’s first 15 minutes, and the first girl-on-girl kiss happens within the first 20. In fact, all the sexualized nudity in the premiere-from the zonked-out robots to the writhing saloon girls-features female bodies. There’s a naked woman ( Evan Rachel Wood) in literally the first frame of the series. Many reviewers-including, most eloquently, Mo Ryan of Variety-have pointed out that in creating a show about a violent, sexy theme park told in part from the perspective of exterior “game-maker” characters, HBO is trying to have its cake and eat it too. ![]() ("I got my heart right here / I got my scars right here" "Listen, ma, I'll give you all I got / Get me off of this, I need confidence in myself / Listen, ma, I'll give you all of me / Give me all of it, I need all of it to myself" Take you down another level / And get you dancing with the Devil / Take a shot of this / But I'm warning you / I'm on that shit that you can't smell, baby / So, put down your perfume.But Westworld is obviously chasing larger themes even in this first sprawling episode. Playing during a fancy charity event where Bernard and Stubbs are trying to find and kidnap Liam, the public face of Incite that Dolores tried and failed to woo and who Bernard and Stubbs suspect might now be a host (he is not), the song most obviously refers to Dolores's web of manipulation, but a few of its lyrics point to the emotional insecurities any one of the characters have internalized on top of that. One of the most recent songs Westworld has used on the show, 2011's "Wicked Games," like most of The Weeknd's club-ready jams, is about being horny, getting fucked up, and feeling bad, but there are a couple subtextual reasons producers might have chosen it. Thus, behold: this compendium of all the pop cover songs Westworld has used, where it appeared, and (likely) why. But besides all the Radiohead (Hey! They got a real one in the finale: " Codex" from 2011's King of Limbs), it's kind of hard to keep track of every modern song that ever had its day in Sweetwater and beyond. Composed for orchestra, string quartet, and a very real player piano by Ramin Djawadi, who also scores Game of Thrones (if you couldn't tell by comparing the theme songs), most every song has deliberate purpose hiding in the original lyrics that are applicable to a character's development and motivations. ![]() But one thing has remained consistent after all these years: Some of its best nuggets come from its heavy use of incongruous song covers. With every episode packing in timeline jumps and thin metaphors adding fuel to the show’s theories fire, the HBO series has moved a long way away from its initial draw as a sentient robot drama. Westworld has sort of lost the thread in Season 4.
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