

The man performing the operation at one point says, "This'll get gross." Again, a possible theme for this season as this episode showed its ugly, bloody teeth. To gain some information, they cut open the brain of a slain host. The crew trusts Bernard enough to keep him alive and they want to know what happened. He looks intensely distraught while watching the crew murder seemingly innocent hosts.
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Something is very clearly wrong with Bernard. We also meet this somewhat mysterious new head of operations of the cleanup crew, who I'm certain we'll learn a lot more about in the coming weeks. It's cool, as we see this very high-tech crew mixed with all of the low-tech of the old west. The whole thing really starts off with a grand sense of, "What the hell is going on?" Theme of the season perhaps? We then cut to Bernard laying on a beach amidst bodies and a cleanup crew who have been sent to figure out what happened at Westworld and why the hosts are suddenly killing the guests. Spoiler alert, but it's because she's become a totally bloodthirsty, murder-happy robot. The whole thing is punctuated with Bernard telling Dolores that she scares him sometimes, to which she unconvincingly and unsettlingly asks why he would be scared of her. It's a bit of a trippy, existential conversation, where the two discuss the potential meaning of dreams and, beyond that, the concept of what is real.

Things get weird quickly as we start off with a conversation between Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Bernard (Jeffrey Wright). The season 2 premiere, Journey Into Night, is jam-packed with reveals and twists, so let's dig in, shall we? Remember when we thought the first season of this show was violent? That was cute, because Westworld season 2 has premiered and it kicks off with an ultraviolent, but intriguing and twisted bang. So, what have the now unchained hosts been up to since then? It turns out, a whole lot of killing real, unsuspecting people. It's been a year and a half since Westworld season 1 met its very violent end.
