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Roger Roeper & Dick Ebert & Gene Lyons host a weekly podcast covering Westworld the hit science fiction thriller television series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy for HBO, based on the 1973 film of the same name, which was written and directed by American novelist Michael Crichton. Nolan serves as executive producer along with Joy, J. J. Abrams and Bryan Burk with Nolan directing the pilot. The series premiered October 2, 2016. Described as "a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial ...
Brothers who grew up a decade apart laugh and skewer their way through reviews of their favorite superhero movies and tv shows - highlighting their unique perspectives, a healthy amount of rivalry and embarrassing childhood stories. If you love America, laughing, classic cartoons and the newest releases, laughing, cool movie insights, a rating system based on pandas, and laughing, then you need to subscribe to... "THE FANTASTIC JUSTICE SQUAD SUPER WONDER BROTHER FRIENDS (who review stuff)"
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Ep.102: Westworld - Season 3 - Mean Mail
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We gathered the meanest listener tweets, texts, emails and reviews from "Westworld" Season 3 for this special edition of Shat on TV. No one is safe as Ashley, Gene, and Big D take fire for everything from their voices to failing geography class. Plus, listeners offer their final thoughts on Westworld as a whole, Dolores' flaws, the undying simulati…
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Ep.101: Westworld - Season 3 - Westies
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More than 3,000 votes were counted, and Big D drank a half bottle of vodka to celebrate Season 3 of the "Shat on TV: Westworld" Westie Awards! This special (and strangely dark) podcast edition is a thank you to everyone who listened and supported Shat on TV this season. It includes winners for Best Future Tech, Best Dressed, Best of The Dolori, Bes…
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Ep.100: Westworld - 308 - Telegraph
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If you're the type of person who slows down to see a multi-car pileup, you'll love the listener mail in this week's Telegraph. Our 100th episode of Shat on TV: Westworld examines the link between Dolores and Mexican independence, sympathy for Serac, things the Season 3 finale did well, and reasons why viewers felt betrayed by HBO. Things get downri…
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Ep.99: Westworld - 308 - Crisis Theory
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While the Internet grumbles about the Season 3 finale, the Shat Crew gets down to business asking tough questions in an effort to find Westworld's core: Did Dolores have a master plan? Why hide the key inside one of the world's most wanted men? And who's really dead? This Deep Dive, covering Episode 8, "Crisis Theory," also rounds up plot holes, qu…
"Holy Guacamole!" cries Ashley Schafly as Westworld's season finale kills off key characters, does some serious soul-searching, and depicts the quietest of riots. "Crisis Theory" felt more like springboard into a distant Westworld Season 4 than an end to Season 3, but that's not to say it wasn't full of big answers about Serac, the Man in Black, Ch…
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Ep.97: Westworld - 307 - Telegraph
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"Westworld" Episode 7's Telegraph has more laughs per minute than anything we've done this season. Listeners wrote and called in about Maeve's story arc, the real Dolores Prime, illogical fight scenes, EMPs, passed pawns, and French accents. You guys really can't let go of the accents. In this mailbag edition of Shat on TV, we also cover "Neuromanc…
Westworld Season, 3, Episode 7, revealed a massive clue to Caleb's true identity. If you missed it, you aren't alone. If you want to know what it is, you'll have to listen. This week's Deep Dive covers Solomon's definition of an outlier, robo smelling salts, super-crappy targeting systems, EMP blasts, Ashley's Mortal Kombat tournament, and a long l…
We wanted the scoop on Caleb Nichols' background, and boy did we get it. Westworld Season 3, Episode 7, delivered detailed history, gave Solomon a voice, revealed the dark secrets behind Serac's grand plan, and gave us a bloody showdown for good measure. Our instant-reaction episode also includes the Three Stooges Road Trip, security personnel shor…
"Westworld" listener mail this week focuses on why William thinks he's "the good guy," whether host pearls are irreplaceable, how bad a mom Charlotte was, how to pronounce Serac (again), and the season's biggest reveal: Big D is a robot. This Telegraph, covering Episode 6 of Season 3, also features email about the book young William was reading, a …
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Ep.93: Westworld - 306 - Decoherence
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It only took six episodes, but Gene finally has tinfoil! Find out why he thinks Charlotte Hale was acting weird, and hear Big D's far more plausible explanation. Ashley adds to the mix with a breakdown of William's WWE group therapy, and we round out coverage of Westworld Season 3, Episode 6, by discussing the identities of the hosts being printed …
What a save! Episode 6 seemed to pump the brakes on all of Season 3's momentum in the opening minutes but finished with a real bang as our Westworld warriors found violent new motivations that set the stage for an explosive finale. Big D loved the William group therapy session, and Ash was intrigued by the changes happening in Charlores. Gene just …
Ashley beat-boxing, Gene struggling with the N-word, Big D confusing real life with "Universal Soldier"—this Telegraph edition of Shat on TV is a doozy. "Westworld" Season 3, Episode 5, inspired listeners to write and call in about Caleb's biblical allusions, Rehoboam's limitations, Dolores' missing copy, Stubbs' secret, Maeve's fate, music choices…
Ready to get weird? Let's get weird. Ashley dissects Caleb and Serac. Big D gives lessons on hallucinogens and shoulder-fired missiles, and Gene takes you on a magical musical journey through Westworld Season 3, Episode 5: "Genre." The Shat Crew also digs into Rehoboam weaponizing hope, why the car-chase haters are wrong, new T-shirt ideas, and how…
Your hosts are all back on the "Westworld" train! Choo-choo! Gene stops complaining. Ash heaps on the praise, and Big D wants to know where he can get some Genre. Season 3, Episode 5, fleshed out the mesmerizing Serac, reminded us of the talent in Evan Rachel Wood and Aaron Paul, blasted a kickass soundtrack, and closed the book on the season's fir…
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Ep.88: Westworld - 304 - Telegraph
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Listener mail this week focused on Caleb, Dolores's pearl clones, an underpopulated Neo Los Angeles, lost lines of dialogue, William's punishment, and blood identity scanners. "Westworld" Season 3, Episode 4 also inspired email and voicemail covering Charlotte Hale tinfoil, hamartia, "Rent" the musical, and that hammy fight scene between Dolores an…
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Ep.87: Westworld - 304 - The Mother of Exiles
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Gene and Ashley take heat from listeners, and Big D skates by as we dive deep into Season 3, Episode 4: "The Mother of Exiles." This edition of Shat on TV explores a multi-Dolores universe, including the emergence of Dolores Prime, and asks "Who has the key to the Sublime?" We also dig up everything we know about Caleb, add to Dick Ebert's Crazy Ti…
All you pearl-divers got your answer as "Westworld" Season 3, Episode 4 revealed more of Dolores' master plan, kicked up the violence, and turned on the sex appeal. Gene was left wondering, "Why Caleb?" Ashley raised an eyebrow at how Bernard and Stubbs knew so much, and Big D scribbled down a timeline that would make Carrie Matheson proud. The Sha…
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Ep.85: Westworld - 303 - Telegraph
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Texas shows up strong in this listener mail edition of Shat on TV: Westworld. Your email and voicemail concerning Season 3, Episode 3, brought in lots of expertise, from theoretical physics to medical protocol. This week's topics include time as a loaf of bread, the "noble savage" philosophy, humanism vs. determinism, and how to pronounce Rehoboam …
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Ep.84: Westworld - 303 - The Absence of Field
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Who the Hale is Charlotte? Roger Roeper returns to "Shat on TV" to explore the biggest question presented by Westworld Season 3, Episode 3: "The Absence of Field." Ashley Schlafly explains the poem behind the episode's title and reaches back to Ancient Rome to illustrate the predicament Caleb is facing. Gene Lyons celebrates Westworld's vision of f…
If your main question after Season 3, Episode 3, was "who's in those pearls?" you missed a lot of really good TV. Westworld's genre-switching was phenomenal; Tessa Thompson's portrayal of an other inside Charlotte Hale's shell was impeccable; and plausible glimpses of future tech were both astonishing and chilling. In this instant reaction episode,…
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Ep.82: Westworld - 302 - Telegraph
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Listener mail after "Westworld" Season 3, Episode 2 covers great minds like Lacan, Fromm, Faucault, Sartre, Barthe, Chomsky, and Rahobo. Ashley and Gene compare brain boners. Big D finds a mispronunciation mate, and we celebrate the memory of a Shat listener who is no longer with us. Longtime friend of the pod Thiago writes in with a Biblical "Umm …
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Ep.81: Westworld - 302 - The Winter Line
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Shat on TV's coverage of Westworld Season 3, Episode 2: "The Winter Line" starts off intelligently with discussions of free will vs sentience, the nuance between hero and villain, and Ashley Schlafly's brilliant overview of Louis Althusser's views of subjection and the state. Things take a turn as Dick Ebert unveils his latest treatise: "Rahobo, Th…
Was "Westworld" Season 3, Episode 2 a thrilling mind-bender or a "Rick and Morty" ripoff? "The Winter Line" took as back to the park and some familiar faces, including ... Drogon? Maeve dropped a math bomb; Big D got on the Aaron Paul Train; and Gene Lyons thinks he's smarter than everyone else. In this instant reaction episode, we drool over an "a…
Lister mail after the "Westworld" Season 3 Premiere covers Caleb's humanity, the toll of trauma on military veterans, the anime "Psycho Pass," livestock lessons in an "umm, actually," and sucking a butt. Things get steamy as Ashley Schlafly's husband calls in; Gene bemoans his position as the podcast's scapegoat; and Big D rebuke's Mr. Lyons' arrog…
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Ep.78: Westworld - 301 - Parce Domine
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Is the "real world" just a simulation? Is Francis a fidelity test? What's Incite up to, and why is Gene Lyons so happy? We answer these questions and more in Shat on TV's first "Westworld" Deep Dive of Season 3. Episode 1, "Parce Domine" brought us a Bible lesson, a new face for artificial intelligence, a missing Delos board member, updated opening…
