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'Westworld' Recap, Season 2 Episode 3: Robot, Human, and Everything in Between

'Westworld' Recap, Season 2 Episode 3: Robot, Human, and Everything in Between

'Westworld' Recap, Season 2 Episode 3: Robot, Human, and Everything in Between

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May 7, 20188m 28s

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Show Notes

Westworld watchers, we knew this moment was coming. The second season's third episode, "Virtù e Fortuna," opens not in Westworld but in an India-themed park. Where Westworld is an emblem of the colonization of Native American land, this park represents Britain's takeover of the subcontinent, and the racial-social hierarchy is clearly encoded: Women in saris and men in turbans—the hosts—walk amidst people dressed in turn-of-the-20th-century British garb.

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