Player Piano is a weekly conversation recapping HBO's Westworld. Hosts Dan and Trevor do their best to decode the plot, philosophy and filmcraft of the sci-fi epic.

Though QA got Westworld's temperature control systems up and running, Dan and Trevor were not so lucky this week. The AC died in Dan's studio before taping, turning it into a sweat lodge of sorts. What follows is a mystical, perspiration-drenched and Mezcal-fueled vision quest through the increasingly complicated and surreal plot of this entertaining episode. 

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