The fourth episode of Westworld season 2, “The Riddle of the Sphinx” airs this Sunday at 8:00 p.m. CST. HBO has released three all-new photos from the episode, along with one behind-the-scenes shot of co-creator Lisa Joy talking with camera operator Chris Haarhof. Here’s that:
The synopsis for “The Riddle of the Sphinx” is sort of a riddle itself: “Is this now? If you’re looking forward, you’re looking in the wrong direction.” Okay. The episode has a runtime of 70 minutes, was written by Gina Atwater and Jonathan Nolan, and was directed by Lisa Joy.
It looks like we’ll be heading back to the top-secret underground Delos bunker where Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) brought Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) in the season 2 premiere. We’ll also be dealing with those super creepy drone hosts.
Major Craddock (Jonathan Tucker) is back, and it looks like he survived his escape from Fort Forlorn Hope.
And finally, after sitting out this past Sunday’s episode, the Man in Black (Ed Harris) is back looking for “the door” and killing lots of hosts along the way. Probably.
While we don’t have much to go on, many reviewers identified “The Riddle of the Sphinx” as a highlight of the first batch of episodes they got to review ahead of time. It was the favorite of Entertainment Weekly’s James Hibberd, who said this in his recap of Episode 203: “Next week is my favorite of the season’s first half, and I think it’s the one fans will be buzzing about.” Bring it on.
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