On this week’s podcast, Andrew, Dwayne, and Tosin take an epic, deep-dive analysis of Westworld‘s amazing first season.

Violent Delights is a weekly podcast where hosts Andrew Sorcini, Dwayne DeFreitas, and Tosin Onafowokan discuss HBO’s Westworld, and the larger questions this ambitious show hopes to tackle.

Links

• Post-season live FB interview with Lisa Joy & Jonathan Nolan

• Finale & Season 2 discussion with Lisa Joy & Jonathan Nolan
• Deadwood

• Literature
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

• Online Writings
  • “Sympathy for the Robot”, The Atlantic
  • The Tech of Westworld
  • What the Bicameral Mind Theory Means to “˜Westworld’
  • How the ‘Westworld’ Laboratory 3D Prints Robots and Realism
  • Interview with Westworld title sequence creative director Patrick Clair
  • Westworld’s display map isn’t CGI– it’s a practical effect
  • Interview with Westworld title sequence creative director Patrick Clair
  • The Confederados and the Golden Circle:
    • The Golden Circle (Spanish: Circunferencia de Oro)
    • The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire: 1854-1861. By Robert E. May. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989)
  • Westworld’s “˜Multiple Timelines’ Theory
  • Unlocking Westworld’s 7 Most Baffling Mysteries
  • Man in Black Yul Brynner image Homage
  • Westworld producers on that huge reveal and brutal scene
  • Westworld Sales Pitch by Jenny Nicholson
  • What has Delos done with the roughly 10,950 paintings Dolores paints every day?
  • What is the Maze? Labyrinth Design
  • Like Swan Lake? Like Psychological Dramas? Check out Black Swan
  • Westworld Transcripts

• Online Video
  • Humans, season 2 viral trailer (SyFy & UK Channel 4 series)
  • Westworld NYCC cast interview on FB LIVE
  • Björk – All is Full of Love (Dir. Chris Cunningham)
  • Nerdwriter: What makes Anthony Hopkins Great (anatomy of a scene)
  • I’ve Got A Westworld Theory (Song) | WHO IS ARNOLD
  • Westworld Meets Metal – Eric Calderone “331Erock”
• TV Series
  • Cowboy Bebop (Anime)
  • Firefly
    • Serenity
  • Battlestar Galactica (2003 /4)
  • Deadwood
• Film
  • Surrogates (2009)
  • Tron Legacy (2009)
  • Transcendance (2014) (WARNING: Rotten Tomatoes 20%)
  • Blade Runner (1982)
  • Her (2013)
  • Never Let me Go (2010) film adaptation
  • Cube (1997) (Mazes & Game Theory in cinema)
  • Cypher (2005) (Corporate Intrigue)
  • Splice (2009) (Artificial Life Forms)
  • Groundhog Day (Bill Murray awakening/repetition)
  • Ex Machina
  • Romeo + Juliet (1996)
  • The Matrix: Reloaded
  • Jurassic Park

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