![]() ![]() ![]() The staples of HBO's brand of nudity (with the exception of "Looking," its sweet, carefully observed show about gay men in San Francisco) are heterosexual sex and sex between women that is mostly intended for male consumption. Simply by the standards of explicit sexuality on cable TV, one way to flip the script might have been to abandon the presumed sexual orientation of both the fictional participants and the real-life viewers of this sort of get-together. Westworld held nothing back this episode. Lewis, the supervising director for the show, acknowledged that "there are a lot of influences there, from Eyes Wide Shut and some Kubrickian stuff that's there, as well as the movie 120 Days of Sodom by Pier Paolo Pasolini." If it's tamer than the "Odyssey on Red River" that game designer Lee Sizemore (Simon Quarterman) proposed - I didn't see a "Horroborous" in Pariah, but maybe I was distracted by the Dia de los Muertos get-ups people seemed to be sporting - the action we saw in Pariah was certainly a bit more explicit, or at least public, than much of what else we've encountered in the park.īut was it actually novel in any way? As Jackson McHenry put it in his history of this sort of scene on HBO, " Westworld's latest orgy continues HBO's years-long fascination with extravagant group-sex set pieces." And Richard J. ![]() People fornicate in carriages parked randomly in the street, and guests to the park shoot robot hosts for sport. Women wander around nude except for gold body paint. There are ex-Confederate soldiers wandering around, seeking explosives and living beyond the bounds of civilization. We encountered said orgy in last week's episode in a location in the Westworld park called Pariah, which is supposed to be one of the most lawless sections we've encountered yet. ![]()
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