The characters of AmazonsTransparenthad a whirlwind second season, as Maura found companionship and acceptance. But that doesnt mean the drama is over for the Pfefferman family in season 3. In fact, creator Jill Soloway promises the opposite. Things dont really get easier for any of the Pfeffermans, she tells EW in an interview. I think if they got easier, the show wouldnt be good anymore. So, things just keep getting harder....

And for the first 45 minutes or so, he succeeds in spades. The film revolves around three U.S. Border Patrol agents manning a checkpoint on a sleepy backroad. As far as Flores is concerned, the more uneventful, the better. Credit: Phyllis Kwedar But Hobbs pulls rank and begins to mess with the driver. Shots are fired, drugs are found, and chaos ensues, pitting the three officers against one another. If it sounds like Im dishing out spoilers, its all in the films trailer....

“Who’s Dale Cooper? Who’s Laura Palmer?” (UPDATE:Read the full recaphere.) Credit: Patrick Wymore/SHOWTIME Doc Hayward told an eerie story from that night long ago. Dirty Cooper was last seen leaving the hospital… apparently after visiting a comatose Audrey Horne. The Bad Dale and the Good Diane.What did Dirty Cooper do to Audrey? Showtime The possibilities are horrific. We checked in on Dale’s dark doppelganger, who received a visit from an old friend....

The sons of Ragnar Lothbrok react to bad news, while Floki finds a new religion. In Kattegat, his first wife Lagertha cannot believe he is dead. But her responsibility is clear. Credit: Bernard Walsh She must pick up the burden of rule, no matter the cost. “Ragnar hated it,” she tells her lover Astrid. “It weighed him down, perhaps it even killed him.” And she thinks Ragnar is watching her....

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experienceis the logical next step for writer, director, and enthusiast of hands gently grazing wheat stalks Terrence Malick. The 45-minute, large-format version of his spin on the history of the world is as visually stunning, languid, and heavy on the voice overa feature-length cut subs in Cate Blanchett for Brad Pitt as narratoras youd expect, but the nature doc framing gives him permission to ignore story and character entirely....

A mind-bending finale with major consequences ends a brilliant debut season The robopocalypse begins! The episode was titled “The Bicameral Mind.” We have so very much to discuss tonight. Credit: HBO The more you think about the mechanics in this episode, the more brilliant it is. We open with bare-chested Dolores. Our heroine is stripped to her most essential parts, all unnerving exoskeleton, right as she’s born. Do we accept her as she is?...

If anything, the pace quickened. I assume this is Bernard’s voice (outside chance, Stubbs'?). Either way, that’s the big question, isn’t it? Credit: John P. Johnson Dolores steps outside and digs up a gun. Was this planted here for her to find? First the fly, and now she’s armed. They’re the TV show’s versions of the protagonists of theWestworldfeature film. William is greeted by a Scarlett Johansson-esque hostess bot who takes him into a private set of changing rooms....

Once again we start with Dolores and Bernard during one of their top-secret chats. (See?). Dolores gives a logical explanation for asking. Credit: HBO At first I wondered if Bernard was suspicious that Dolores might be manipulating him. The girl needs to buy in bulk and come to town less. She meets up with Teddy and they start doing their usual loop. William’s traveling companion Logana.k.a. every negative male trait jammed into one characteris impressed by his friend getting at least some kind of action....

Plus: We go deep on that amazing Dr. Ford power lunch scene Westworldis a story of incremental change. Not just for the hosts, but the show’s own narrative style. Every scene edges the characters and story forward. Credit: HBO This is more unusual than you might think. The pace is not fast, and that frustrates some viewers. Nowhere is the show’s incremental progression more clear than in the Dolores scenes that open each hour....

A nudity-stuffed hour revealed major cluesand we have new theories The world ofWestworldis getting bigger and naked-er. He’s down in the basement chilling with Old Bill. And speaking of getting off loop, Dolores is far from home. Credit: John P. Johnson; HBO She’s going with William and Logan to the decadent Pariah. Dolores has been listening to a voice in her head, somebody telling her to find him. Presumably, the same person who told her to dig up that gun a few episodes back....

Maeve marches a guest upstairs and taunts him into choke-y death-sex. I’m not sure if we were supposed to find this scene arousing or repulsive or both. And what does Maeve have against beds, anyway? Credit: John P. Johnson/HBO She’s all about sitting on safes and dressers during death-sex. “How do you know?” Maeve asks, which is a darn good question. Seeing this prompts a Maeve software crash. The body shop guys hit control-alt-delete to reboot her....

No, no, no. “that was the line where I lost it. Hosts are programmed to ignore certain information. Credit: John P. Johnson/HBO He’s in a flashbackwhich we’ll later learn is an implanted memoryvisiting his dying son. His son passes and Bernard wakes in his Westworld bed. He’s another host haunted by one of Ford’s cruelly effective tragic backstories. “The gods require ablood sacrifice,” Charlotte says. “We need to demonstrate just how dangerous Ford’s creations can be....

Did Episode 8 just confirm a major fan theory? Maeve is taking control. Bernard and Dolores are losing their minds. Credit: John P. Johnson/HBO Elsie might really be dead. And the Man in Black might have just confirmed a major fan theory in tonight’sWestworld. We open with poor suffering Bernard, whose major malfunction is that he killed his own lover. Ford reveals that he created Bernard early on to help him design the hosts....