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Yo, this last episode The Riddle of the Sphinx gave us one of the best Westworld episodes to date. And that’s saying some shit. The two experts who done visited the park since Delos took over, Brittany and William, had to weigh in on this and give their best bars to the maze. All the spoilers ahead. William: I’m gonna tell you like a Yung William told me. This host control sentient life ain’t loyal. I wasn’t ready fam. I was not fucking ready. Like, I have so many thoughts and not nearly enough neuro-pathways to fire them down. Where do we start, yo? Watching the maturation of possibly TV’s best villain as William in Black? Or Bernard Eternal Darkness of the Spotless Mind? Brittany: But look, the thing about William is how we’ve watched the villain be constructed but now I think we’re simultaneously seeing his creation & his destruction. Like that change of heart he had last episode was genuine. Like we saw his grinch heart grow half a size, and crack that Man in Black shell. When he met with Delos for the last time, this dude clearly thought he ran outta fucks 10 years back and suddenly that salted earth is bearing fruit. Some little fuck sprouts done popped up, and now he’s gotta deal.
William: But also…an asshole. ‘Cuz he didn’t terminate that shit and let Host Papa Delos devolve into madness (I guess in the AI world, they call that shit redundancy). Which got that tech murked in the process. All that said, I am having the time of my life watching Jimmie Simpson and…
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Now that officially in the rearview mirror, it’s time to preview the homestretch of a regular season that’s still loaded with so many questions. Here’s a look at six questions that I find either meaningful or fascinating…
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