Bernard meets with an unexpected old friend; The Cradle is under threat; Maeve encounters a scene from her past.Bernard meets with an unexpected old friend; The Cradle is under threat; Maeve encounters a scene from her past.Bernard meets with an unexpected old friend; The Cradle is under threat; Maeve encounters a scene from her past.
Thandiwe Newton
- Maeve Millay
- (as Thandie Newton)
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- TriviaThe title is French for "the skinned"
- GoofsAt around min 15, Bernard is walking and two passersby walks behind him. Bernard stops to see a rider on a horse pass in front of him, and when he resume his walk the same two passersby walks behind him again.
- Quotes
Dr. Robert Ford: Every piece of information in the world has been copied, backed up, except the human mind. The last analog device in a digital world.
- SoundtracksMain Title Theme
Written by Ramin Djawadi
Featured review
Wait what. Who's in Bernards head???
Never really know how much you can miss someone until they're gone. Nor do you realize how crucial Anthony Hopkins' pseudo-philosophical and congenial malevolence is to the Westworld algorithm until he comes back. And it really did feel like the HBO sci-fi saga regained something this week that we all intuitively felt was lost, right? Such is the case when we spend much of tonight inside of the Cradle with Robert Ford, or at least some facsimile of the man's genius, waxing poetic to Bernard. Hearing him quote William Blake's "To See a World..." while surveying his own universe, his "Heaven in a wild flower," is like being welcomed home by a particularly cruel father figure. He might be a bastard, but hey, it's home. This was one of the best aspects of the seventh episode in season 2. The other was that the scales were lifted from our eyes and the series' multiple timelines have begun moving with a uniformity of precision, as opposed to biding their time wading in place. In fact, this hour was confirmation that other than turning Teddy into the Terminator, Dolores' storyline has been pretty well padded ever since the second episode of the season. And yet, we know she is still playing Ford's game. We see the mimicry of her playing the piano as he plays the piano, and we see it again with her unintentionally saying Robert Ford's words to Teddy before taking away his freedom, just as Ford said them to Bernard this week. She isn't free, she is still a pawn in a game she doesn't understand. Maeve at least refuses to play. That ambiguity and open-ended nuance is why Westworld, even in an admittedly weaker and sometimes glitchy sophomore effort, is still so much more thoughtful and intriguing than the rest of television. This episode had its flaws, which forced me to take away full star-including the looseness of the science regarding Ford's consciousness, Angela's cliché exit, and William's lame pardon from the great gamergate in the sky-but as a whole, it is a remarkable achievement, especially when all the threads work together instead of as disparate strands of an obscured tapestry. That cloth came into view tonight, and it has taken a form that's more than worth following into that uncanny valley.
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- Millard House - 645 Prospect Crescent, Pasadena, California, USA(Arnold's house exterior and interior)
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- Runtime58 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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