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And to see that it’s happening in a completely different landscape, with a different language. “I think that it really enhances, not only what we did in the first season … but just calling back to those moments is even richer now because of everything we know that it meant,” Newton added. I just loved that laugh and the thrill of it.” But yeah, when I saw it, I just loved the similarity of shots and the slow-mo and how it harks back to what we did in Season 1. “I didn’t really get to appreciate that ’til I saw it, because a lot of it has to do with Rodrigo - or rather Hiro, and those guys outside. “Yeah, that was so fun,” Newton laughed, as she told TheWrap of shooting the scene. They are the Japanese doppelgängers of our beloved Maeve (Newton) and Hector (Rodrigo Santoro), who watch this surreal copycat storyline play out before them after being taken prisoner in the fake foreign land.Īlso Read: We Finally Know What the Park in 'Westworld' Was Created For Tonight’s long-awaited dive into Delos Destinations’ Samurai-centric location delivered a plot that - thanks to the laziness of head story writer Lee Sizemore (Simon Quarterman) - was very similar to what we’ve seen in the titular theme park, beginning with a Geisha house robbery that’s almost a shot-for-shot remake of the Mariposa Saloon heist from Season 1.Įxcept this one focuses on a standoff between new host characters Akane (Kikuchi), the head geisha, and Musashi (Hiroyuki Sanada), a former member of the Shogun’s army.

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(Spoiler alert: Please do not read ahead unless you’ve seen Sunday’s episode of “Westworld” Season 2, “Akane No Mai.”)ĭid Sunday’s “Westworld” feel a little too familiar to you? OK, so Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan’s hit HBO series may have cribbed a bit from itself for “Akane No Mai” - the fifth episode of Season 2 aka “the Shogun World one.” But the self-plagiarism was all in good fun, series regular Thandie Newton and guest star Rinko Kikuchi told TheWrap.

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