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    The Promethean Puzzles of <i>Westworld</i>

    The HBO show returns with multiple story threads to unravel and decipher.
    by Sophie Gilbert Apr 22, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: HBO

    The first thing you might notice about Season 2 of is that the opening credits have changed. During the first season of the HBO drama about an adult theme park staffed by humanoid “hosts,” the featured a variety of images showing robots being sculpted into life by machines: sinews being painstakingly stretched over bone, skeletal hands playing a piano, a bone-white “couple” who appeared to be making love. In the very first shot a “sun” appears to rise over a mass of muscle and tissue, hinting that the frontier of Westworld isn’t the Old West but the new technology within thethat closes out the credits now features a body that’s distinctly female.

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