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No, That Episode of <i>Westworld</i> Was Not an Homage to <i>Lost</i>

It turns out that the parallels between “The Riddle of the Sphinx” and the ABC drama’s Season 2 premiere were mostly coincidental.
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There are precisely two times that a TV show has completely blown my mind. One was, of course, when Ned Stark lost his head in the first season of Game of Thrones in 2011. (By the time of subsequent shocks, such as the Red Wedding, I’d read the novels.)

The other was the Season 2 opener of , back in 2005. In what , Desmond (played by the Scottish Peruvian actor Henry Ian Cusick) put a record on a turntable to

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