Welcome to The Valley Beyond: A Westworld Podcast . Each week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike break down Westworld . Bring yourself back online and join us each week! Photograph by John Johnson/HBO This week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike deep dive into “Que Sera, Sera”, the Season 4 (Series?) Finale of Westworld ! Topics discussed include: the Season 5 future of Westworld remains unclear; Halores and the Host in Black have a final standoff; Christina finally remembers who she is; OG Dolores returns to run...
Aug 15, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Welcome to The Valley Beyond: A Westworld Podcast . Each week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike break down Westworld . Bring yourself back online and join us each week! Photograph by John Johnson/HBO This week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike deep dive into “Metanoia”, the penultimate episode of Season 4 of Westworld ! Topics discussed include: Christina learns more about the status of her existence; Bernard revisits The Sublime; Halores is done waiting for the Hosts to choose her vision of the future; the Hos...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Welcome to The Valley Beyond: A Westworld Podcast . Each week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike break down Westworld . Bring yourself back online and join us each week! Photograph by John Johnson/HBO This week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike deep dive into “Fidelity”, the sixth episode of Season 4 of Westworld ! Topics discussed include: a classic Halores mousetrap; so so many dead Caleb clones; backstory on Jay and Frankie and the Outlier movement; and much, much more! ### MORE IN THIS SERIES: Season 1: 1 | ...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Welcome to The Valley Beyond: A Westworld Podcast . Each week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike break down Westworld . Bring yourself back online and join us each week! Photograph by John Johnson/HBO This week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike deep dive into “Zhuangzi”, the fifth episode of Season 4 of Westworld ! Topics discussed include: Teddy helps Christina to her awakening; Halores’ grand plan isn’t going so well for her; the Host in Black has an existential crisis; and much, much more! ### MORE IN THIS SE...
Jul 25, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Welcome to The Valley Beyond: A Westworld Podcast . Each week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike break down Westworld . Bring yourself back online and join us each week! Photograph by John Johnson/HBO This week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike deep dive into “Generation Loss”, the fourth episode of Season 4 of Westworld ! Topics discussed include: We continue our ongoing discussion about how Season 4 seems much more concerned with giving straight forward answers than any other Season of Westworld. Also, Flashba...
Jul 18, 2022•2 hr 23 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Welcome to The Valley Beyond: A Westworld Podcast . Each week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike break down Westworld . Bring yourself back online and join us each week! Photograph by John Johnson/HBO This week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike deep dive into “Années Folles”, the third episode of Season 4 of Westworld ! Topics discussed include: Bernard is back and now, he’s loaded with Prophecy! First looks at Aurora Perrineau and Daniel Wu! A walk through Temperance, complete with a ton of Sweetwater call back...
Jul 11, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Welcome to The Valley Beyond: A Westworld Podcast . Each week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike break down Westworld . Bring yourself back online and join us each week! Photograph by John Johnson/HBO This week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike deep dive into “Well Enough Alone”, the second episode of Season 4 of Westworld ! Topics discussed include: Halores has plans with her mind control experiments; the Host in Black is good at golf; Christina is caught in a new loop and thinks she’s going insane; what happen...
Jul 09, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Welcome to The Valley Beyond: A Westworld Podcast . Each week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike break down Westworld . Bring yourself back online and join us each week! Photograph by John Johnson/HBO This week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike deep dive into “The Auguries”, the Season 4 Premiere of Westworld, with a super-sized podcast episode! Topics discussed include: Caroline and Paul take you inside the Season 4 Premiere that they got to attend in New York City; Christina’s storyline and the state of NPCs i...
Jul 05, 2022•2 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Welcome to The Valley Beyond: A Westworld Podcast . Each week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike break down Westworld . Bring yourself back online and join us each week! This week, Caroline, Paul, and Mike are getting ready for Season 4 of Westworld which premieres on Sunday, June 26! Topics discussed include: Westworld at this year’s ATX TV Festival, a breakdown of the Season 4 Trailer; where we left off in Season 3; and what we’re looking for in Season 4! Also, Caroline and Paul are headed to the Westw...
Jun 22, 2022•41 min
Photograph by John P. Johnson/HBO Bring yourself back online. The Westworld Podcast is back for the Season 3 Finale, “Crisis Theory”. This week on The Westworld Podcast , the panel is full as Caroline, Paul and Mike are joined by ShuffleOnline’s Cat to discuss Westworld ‘s Season 3 Finale, “Crisis Theory”. “You’re all copies of me.” Season 3’s finale represents the end of OG Dolores’ journey. But as she explains to Maeve, every host is based on her so, as long as a host survives, Dolores survive...
May 07, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Photograph by John P. Johnson/HBO Bring yourself back online. The Westworld Podcast is back for this week’s new episode of Westworld , “Passed Pawn”. This week, Paul is joined once again by The Geekdom Fancast’s Derek and Myke to discuss Westworld ‘s seventh episode of Season 3, “Passed Pawn”. They dive into the episode, asking probing questions along the way. Questons like, Do TV shows really hit their stride in their third season? or Is Westworld scratching the action movie itch that movies no...
Apr 29, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Photograph Courtesy of HBO Bring yourself back online. The Westworld Podcast is back for this week’s episode, “Decoherence”. Westworld has been renewed for Season 4! This week, Caroline and Mike are joined by ShuffleOnline’s Cat to discuss Westworld ‘s sixth episode of Season 3, “Decoherence”. A Council of Williams! Hector is Back! Hector is Dead … Again! A Terminator -esque action sequence complete with Riot Mech. And, a car explosion ending with a CHARlores (puns!)! This episode of Westworld h...
Apr 23, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Photograph by Courtesy of HBO Bring yourself back online. The Westworld Podcast is back for this week’s episode, “Genre”. “Just say no.” This week, Paul and Mike are joined by So … I’m Watching This Show ’s Wil to discuss Westworld ‘s fifth episode of Season 3, “Genre”. As we began the back half of Season 3 this week, Westworld dropped dense amounts of information while raising the stakes on big questions. What do you make of Serac’s backstory as motivation for creating Rehoboam and doing … even...
Apr 14, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Photograph by John P. Johnson/HBO Bring yourself back online. The Westworld Podcast is back for this week’s episode, “The Mother of Exiles”. “The truth doesn’t always set you free.” This week, Caroline and Mike are joined by ShuffleOnline’s Cat to discuss Westworld ‘s fourth episode of Season 3, “The Mother of Exiles”. Since the end of Season 2, fans have been wondering exactly who Dolores took with her out of the park. Tonight, we finally learn the answer. Were you shocked by tonight’s reveal?!...
Apr 10, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Westworld S3E3 “The Absence of Field”. Image by HBO. Copyright 2020. Bring yourself back online. The Westworld Podcast is back for this week’s episode, “An Absence of Field.” After only a short snippet in the season premiere, Hale and her mystery Brain-Ball took center stage this week. Who do you think is driving the Hale-bot? All of this week’s hosts have differing opinions… #Westworld @geekdomfancast Check out our previous coverage Season 3 1 | 2 Season 2 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10...
Mar 31, 2020•54 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Photograph by John P. Johnson/HBO Bring yourself back online. The Westworld Podcast is back for this week’s episode, “The Winter Line.” This week, Caroline and Mike are joined by ShuffleOnline’s Cat to discuss Westworld ‘s second episode of Season 3, “The Winter Line.” After a premiere that largely focused on Dolores, this week’s episode shifted to Maeve and Bernard (and some other faces we haven’t seen in awhile)! Which old face were you most excited to see? What did you think of the mysterious...
Mar 25, 2020•55 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Westworld Season 3. Image by HBO copyright 2020 And just like that, after almost two years of waiting, we’re drawn back into Westworld (Westworld episode 301). Let’s take stock of where we are before diving into the episode: Setting: Outside the park. Dolores travels all over the world, including LA, London, and China. Bernard, the scapegoat for the last two seasons’ massacres, only made it to the Philippines. Characters: Dolores ( Evan Rachel Wood ) – She’s turned all kill-bot on us now. Well, ...
Mar 17, 2020•48 min•Season 3Ep. 1
This week, Paul and Caroline invited Mike from Pop Culture Review and the Jay and Mike show to help them sort out the finale! Listen in, as we throw three brains at: The Passenger.
Mar 16, 2020•57 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Now: We didn’t see anything from the “now” timeline. A Few Days Ago with the Man In Black: A father and daughter heart to heart takes a dark turn. Some Time Before Season 1: The details of the MIB’s wife’s suicide are discussed and recalled.
Mar 16, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Now: Things look grim for Maeve, but Akecheta tells her he’ll take care of her daughter. About A Week Ago with the Man In Black: Emily/Grace finds him and promises to make him suffer. Spread Out Over The Whole Story: Akecheta tells a tale of having been awake for a very long time, searching for the”door”.
Mar 16, 2020•58 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Now: Bernard’s secret gets exposed and Hale makes him talk. About A Week Ago with Maeve and Man In Black: These two meet up, but things don’t go like they did before. About A Week Ago with Dolores: The train job from last week pays off and her gang invades the mesa. And they don’t leave empty-handed. About A Week Ago with Bernard: Bernard and Ford have a light-hearted chat in the Cradle where we don’t learn anything (that’s not true).
Mar 11, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 7
About a Week Ago in Sweetwater Dolores and the newly reprogrammed Teddy send a message to the Mesa on the train. About a Week Ago in Shogun World / Maeve’s Group Maeve and the team make their way back into Westworld with Dragon Girl in tow. Maeve finds what she’s been looking for. About a Week Ago in the Mesa Hale and Stubbs call the cavalry. About a Week Ago in Westworld / Man In Black MIB and Grace talk, but no one is sure who is and isn’t a host. About a Week Ago in Westworld / Bernard + Elsi...
Mar 10, 2020•56 min•Season 2Ep. 6
2 Weeks Ago in Sweetwater Earlier we wondered if Dolores and Wyatt would get equal time running the show. Apparently not. Wyatt’s in control. 2 Weeks Ago in Shogun World So much happened here. Mostly, we learned that Sizemore plagiarizes himself in the various parks AND Maeve has continued to evolve her unholy abilities. Now Strand, Bernard, and the rescuers make their way back into the Mesa and start cleaning up. Costa introduces a small new mystery.
Mar 10, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Pre-Season 1 All the Robo-Jim stuff happened between the years immediately following his death (30+years ago) and right before Season 1 started. During Season 1 The sequence where Bernard goes robo-cidal happened somewhere toward the end of Season 1, when Bernard was completely under Ford’s control. Two Weeks ago Man in Black and Lawrence rediscover a shred of William’s humanity in Lawrence’s besieged hometown.
Mar 09, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 4
This week’s episode was more straightforward timeline-wise, but we took the same approach as last week. We split up the show into timelines (or storylines in the case of newcomer Grace), and explore them in sequence before moving on to the next one. Now Timeline: We find out if Hale survived the 2 weeks ago timeline and whether or not anybody kept track of Abernathy. Two Weeks Ago Timeline: Hale and Bernard search for Abernathy and find Rebus’ gang. Dolores/Wyatt makes a deal with the Confederad...
Mar 09, 2020•51 min•Season 2Ep. 3
First, the title: Trace Decay. It relates to another theory about how our brains work (recall bicameral mind?). This one has to do with a Nolan favorite, our memory. As the theory goes, memories begin in your mind as a trace and unless -something- happens to lock-in that memory, like rehearsing the memory or some other multi-sensory association, it will decay over time. Pieces can come back, but after a memory gets hazy, it eventually goes away. The process even starts with short term memory. Me...
Mar 08, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 8
If you’re reading this / listening to this podcast, we assume you’ve seen the episode. With that out of the way… WOW! We had anticipated Bernard to be revealed as a host (a host-ified version of Arnold, actually), but didn’t expect it so soon or so devastatingly. Big reveal, very well done. Maeve’s plan to escape doesn’t look like it will have a happy ending… Delores is happy to have company on her journey to self- fulfillment, but don’t call her a key… William is sounding more and more like the...
Mar 08, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Now Timeline: No update Two weeks ago Timeline: Dolores gets a little Wyatt on some more Delos employees Pre-Season 1 Timeline: Arnold and Ford put on a dog and pony show for a familiar investor. Post-Season 1 Timeline: William is well on his way to becoming the diabolical Man In Black just a couple years after the events of season 1, as it turns out.
Mar 08, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 2
These are our notes from last season with updates from what we saw tonight in red: Ford: Dead. Maybe. Killed by Dolores in front of the Delos Board of Directors. Another possibility includes the Ford we saw get shot was actually a host impersonator. Dead. Saw his body. Dolores: Alive and making her own choices, the first of which is to murder Ford. When we left her, she was taking potshots at board members with a large revolver. Large and in charge of the bandit hosts. Exists as Delores and Wyat...
Mar 08, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 1
NOTE: I incorrectly credit Sergio Leone with directing The Magnificent Seven during the podcast. Apologies to John Sturges. Where’d we end up? Ford: Dead. Maybe. Killed by Dolores in front of the Delos Board of Directors. Another possibility includes the Ford we saw get shot was actually a host impersonator. Dolores: Alive and making her own choices, the first of which is to murder Ford. When we left her, she was taking potshots at board members with a large revolver. William: Confirmation of hi...
Mar 08, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 10
