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Westworld – Season 1, Episode 2 Chestnut

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Westworld – Season 1, Episode 2

Chestnut

Aired Oct 9, 2016

Drama

Sci-Fi

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A pair of guests arrive at Westworld with different expectations; Bernard and Theresa Cullen debate about the recent host anomaly; a behavior engineer tweaks the emotions of a madam in Sweetwater's brothel; a cocky programmer pitches a new narrative.

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Aided by its excellent ensemble cast, "Chestnut" deepens and expands Westworld's captivating mythology by revealing the park through the eyes of a first-time guest and diving further into the lives of its robotic residents.

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Matt Singer

ScreenCrush

06/19/2018

8/10

Westworld hasn't delivered a ton of garish things (or at least it hasn't focused on them in the same way other HBO shows might). It's much more preoccupied with the subtleties and details.

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James White

Empire Magazine

11/07/2017

4/5

If last week it felt like you were being chucked in at the deep end, episode two comes off as more of a pilot. But that's part of the appeal for Westworld.

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Paul MacInnes

Guardian

10/17/2016

Dolores is a prism through which we can view Westworld's developing themes; individual agency, the power of memory, the role of women in a chauvinist world and, of course, what makes a human.

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William Evans

Black Nerd Problems

06/25/2018

Finally, we see the front end, the sales floor for Westworld. This shit looking like they dipped Mall of America in even more privilege.

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Lili Loofbourow

The Week

08/28/2017

. . .the show is exploring the way poetry can creep in with depth and damage, infecting the park's clean, shallow, purely entertaining code.

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Blake Howard

Graffiti With Punctuation

11/17/2016

If Westworld was a book, it would be un-put-down-able.

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Synopsis

A pair of guests arrive at Westworld with different expectations; Bernard and Theresa Cullen debate about the recent host anomaly; a behavior engineer tweaks the emotions of a madam in Sweetwater's brothel; a cocky programmer pitches a new narrative.

Director: Richard J. Lewis
Executive Producer: Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, J.J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub, Bryan Burk
Screenwriter: Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy
Network: HBO
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date: Oct 9, 2016