Author: Christian Hoffer / Source: TV Shows
The second season of Westworld begins with a reference to a dark award-winning play.
Westworld loves to tease fans with complex storylines, big secrets, and subtle Easter eggs. Often, the answers to some of these secrets are hidden in a very obvious place: the titles of its episodes.
Tonight’s episode is named “Journey Into Night,” and refers to Dr. Robert Ford’s final storyline – the one in which the hosts he created finally gain self-consciousness. While Ford’s past narratives were made for the humans, Ford made “Journey Into Night” for the hosts, a way to free them from the shackles of the park he created decades ago.
However, the title of “Journey Into Night” isn’t entirely original. Ford took the name from a well-known play, Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night. The play is a classic piece of theater, a four-part play about a family who struggles with addiction, illness, and their relationships with one another. O’Neill wrote the play based on his own experiences with his family and it was only released after he died in 1953.
So why did Ford name “Journey Into Night” after the play? Well, Long Day’s Journey Into Night involves four characters who can’t move on from the tragedies and disappointments of their past. Although the characters seem to be bitterly self-aware of their flaws, their…
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