HBO’s Westworld Season 3 got a little experimental this week in episode 5, Genre, which took a closer look at the enigmatic Serac and uncovered more of Dolores’s plan–which, unsurprisingly, may just lead to the complete collapse of humanity as we know it. This all took place as poor Caleb was subjected to the drug trip of a lifetime, dosed with the titular Genre, and set adrift on a psychedelic journey where his perception of the world kept shifting–wait for it–genres.
As Caleb’s mind slid between color palettes and styles, Dolores kicked off a major phase of her scheme: uploading and distributing all the privatized data farmed by Incite to every person in the world. The lives people have been leading have been kept on tramlines, and Dolores is finally showing everyone the tracks–except not everyone was prepared for what it is they learned. Chaos erupted, and society immediately began to crumble, just as Serac had feared.
With only three episodes left in this season, things are gearing up for what is sure to be an epic conclusion. Caleb’s past is still mostly shrouded in mystery, Maeve is still a piece in play, Bernard’s role in the plan has yet to be relieved, and Dolores’s clones may or may not be having second thoughts about becoming cannon fodder. We’ve gathered up fifteen different references, clues, and Easter Eggs to help us try and piece together a projection for what might be coming up in the next three weeks. Share your theories in the comments below!
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1. Dempsey and Incite
The Dempsey that helped Serac kickstart his company was Liam’s father. We know Dempsey Sr. is currently dead, and in this episode we learn exactly how. Serac’s brother may not have had a hand in it, but Serac most certainly did.
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2. Saul, David, Soloman
Rehoboam’s first incarnations followed the biblical naming scheme. Saul, David, and Soloman were all ancient kings of Israel who came before Rehoboam.
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3. “You think I killed your friend?”
Liam asks Caleb if Caleb believes he killed his friend, indirectly, by sending Caleb off to war–the friend in question here is Francis, the man Caleb has been having on-again-off-again flashbacks to since the first episode of the season. Until now, Caleb has remembered Francis’s death one way–Francis was shot, Caleb tried to save him–but it turns out that may not be true. In fact, judging by Liam’s terrified reaction to Caleb’s file, it certainly seems like Caleb’s unreliable memory may be hiding something much darker.
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4. Genre
The drug Liam doses Caleb with is also our episode title: Genre. Caleb experiences five distinct genres as he proceeds through the night’s affairs: film noir, action movie, romance, drama, and finally, reality.
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5. Flight of the Valkyrie
Caleb’s first genre switch comes with a soundtrack–Wagner’s Flight of the Valkyries, perfect for those giant action set pieces.
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6. Ash and Giggles
Caleb’s pals from episodes 1 and 2 are back in time for a clutch save. Giggles is still wearing the same mood-ring shirt we saw him in last which either means he owns a bunch of them or not much time has passed.
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7. King Midas and Tom Canty
Ash says Liam makes King Midas, a biblical king who was cursed to have everything he touched (including food and people) turn to gold, look like Tom Canty, the pauper from Mark Twain’s The Prince And The Pauper.
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8. “You can’t be in two places at once.”
Liam is certain that Dolores’s gambit is going to fail because she’d have to physically be at the Rehoboam node to access the system, not realizing that she’s already there. We learned last week that Dolores has cloned herself across multiple host bodies. She’s in more than two places at once.
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9. Nightclubbing
Caleb’s fourth genre shift is accompanied by Iggy Pop’s Nightclubbing.
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10. Rehoboam’s Eclipse
Serac explains that Rehoboam working was like a “sun and moon aligned,” which makes the circular diagrams featured in each episode take on even more meaning. The alignment of the sun and moon is an eclipse–Rehoboam’s diagrams look just like a solar eclipse.
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11. Space Oddity
The song playing as the world is “set off their loops” is an orchestral cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity.
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12. Outliers
Serac explains that outliers are sent to war so they will be “chewed up and spit out” and no longer be a deviation in the system. Caleb was sent away to war, meaning he was likely classed as an outlier and marked for death.
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13. Mozart’s Requiem in D-Minor
You’ll recognize the ominous chords playing over the sweeping shot of a Los Angeles beach from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.
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14. “You did it.”
Liam tells Caleb he “did it” meaning killing Francis–or so we can assume, based on the flashbacks. It looks like the man Caleb and Francis were attempting to torture survived the ordeal but Francis didn’t. It’s looking like Caleb sold Francis out. The question is why or for what?
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15. Emerge
The episode closes with Fischerspooner’s song, Emerge. “You don’t need to emerge from nothing.”
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This week’s Saturday Night Live, which adopted a unique “At Home” format, and featured surprise host Tom Hanks and a fun swipe at Tiger King’s Carole Baskin, aired a new animated short, catching us up on the now-miserable lives of Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Donatello — as the Middle-Aged Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Watch April and Mikey try to keep their marriage alive. Cringe in fear as Donny gets some disturbing news from his doctor. And what happened to ol’ Shredder? Prepare yourself for some scintillating adulting…
Looking for shows to binge during these quaran-tainment times? Here are some IGN-recommented series to take in…
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.
You probably don’t know songwriter Lenny Macaluso by name, but it’s likely you’d recognise his touch. Specifically, The Touch, the motivational masterpiece Macaluso co-wrote with singer Stan Bush in 1986. The rousing power ballad – or “power anthem” as Macaluso prefers to think of it – was inspired by a line of dialogue in the classic air force movie Iron Eagle, written with Sylvester Stallone’s Cobra in mind, and ultimately found initial success on the soundtrack for Transformers: The Movie. It’s a fist-pumping four minutes that refuses to die, resurfacing with some regularity over the years in film (Boogie Nights, Bumblebee), television (Family Guy, American Dad), and videogames (Saints Row IV, Shadow Warrior). The Touch is a song that’s lived on for more than 30 years, despite the fact it apparently took just 30 minutes to write.
“Songs like [The Touch] are written very quickly because the lyric is so inspirational; when you touch upon that vibe within your soul, the song writes itself,” explains Macaluso, now retired from the music industry. “Because you inspire yourself as it’s being written, and it’s a great feeling. I hope others can share that feeling themselves when they listen to it; that’s the whole purpose.”
Lenny Macaluso with Tina Turner. Macaluso served as guitarist and musical conducter in Turner’s touring band from 1977 to 1981.
In early 2019, the team at Australian-based game developer SMG Studio were in need of some inspiration of their own. Work was well underway on the studio’s cartoonish couch co-op game, Moving Out, and with the deadline for finalising the game’s announcement trailer rapidly approaching, SMG Studio was desperate to find the right piece of music to suit the game’s vibrant eighties style and setting. That search would ultimately lead them to make a direct connection with Macaluso.
“Originally our plan was to get someone to write a Moving Out theme or title track, and then use stock music [for the rest of the soundtrack],” explains John Szoke, SMG Studio’s senior games producer. “During the process of getting someone to write the theme it was obvious that we weren’t fans of music that tried to sound like the eighties. We wanted something more authentic.”
A number of classic eighties songs were used as reference points by the team, including Jump by Van Halen, Weird Science by Oingo Boingo, and The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News. But when one of the designers dropped The Touch by Stan Bush into a work-in-progress version of the trailer, everyone at the studio knew they had found the right song for the game. Or so they thought.
“Ash [Ringrose, studio head] loved it and reached out to get the rights to use it, and that’s how we got in contact with Lenny,” says Szoke. “Unfortunately there were multiple rights owners, including the film company [for Transformers: The Movie], so using the track was not only going to be expensive but also problematic in terms of digital rights management on YouTube,”
“Lenny had dealt with other game companies before and started sending us some alternatives and we landed on the track you hear on that trailer. After that we just kept talking,” continues Szoke. “Lenny is a great guy and we had a lot in common and a lot of mutual respect for what one another was doing.”
Never Surrender
Macaluso had grown used to being approached for music licensing deals over the years, but his partnership with SMG Studio on the soundtrack for Moving Out presented him with a considerably more collaborative opportunity, one that would ultimately give life to a number of unused tracks that had laid dormant in his archives for decades.
“The Touch, Never Surrender, Thunder in Your Heart; they are always the go-to songs [for licensing],” says Macaluso. “Very rarely do I get the opportunity to pitch something from the vault. That’s why [working on] Moving Out has been so soul-stirring for me, because John [Szoke] really encouraged me to keep digging deep.”
The first song Macaluso supplied was One Track Mind, which was retitled to Moving Power and selected as Moving Out’s main theme. The song was written back in 1987, and a heavily restructured version of it was eventually recorded and released by Canadian electro-funk duo Chromeo in 2018.
Here is Moving Power as it appears in the game, which is an instrumental version of the track recorded in 1999:
“After we got [Moving Power] for the trailer we kept going back and forth,” explains Szoke. “I would send him info about the game, screenshots and so on. He would go through his archives of music he wrote in the eighties and send what he could find.”
[poilib element=”quoteBox” parameters=”excerpt=The%20eighties%20decade%20was%20an%20incredibly%20prolific%20one%20for%20Macaluso.”]The eighties decade was an incredibly prolific one for Macaluso, and by his own account there was a period between 1981-83 where he wrote and produced over 100 songs (“And that’s a conservative number, to be honest with you,” says Macaluso). In addition to these songs and countless others released by artists around the world throughout the remainder of the decade, Macaluso also wrote and recorded numerous other tracks that for varying reasons never saw the light of day.
Some of these tracks were written with movie soundtracks in mind, such as Movin & Groovin’ (originally titled Skin Tight) which was intended for the 1989 Jim Carrey comedy, Earth Girls Are Easy, and Tight (originally titled Cheapshot), which was written for the 1988 Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy, Twins.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in Twins (1988). Schwarzenegger is on the left.
“Danny DeVito’s character was a scammer, always running scams, so that’s why the lyric is what it is,” remembers Macaluso. “Unfortunately [Cheapshot] did not make the final cut of Twins, and I don’t think anyone’s ever really heard the song because I’ve never truly pitched it for any other opportunities.”
Macaluso’s efforts to get a song on Schwarzenegger’s soundtrack may have come up shorter than Arnie’s onscreen brother, but for Moving Out the track has finally found its purpose. Here is the original recording of Cheapshot:
Here it is in instrumental form as it appears on the Moving Out soundtrack:
Other tracks Macaluso supplied SMG Studio with were originally intended for young pop stars of the late eighties and early nineties, including Way to Go (originally titled Operator) that was very nearly recorded by Whitney Houston in 1990 at a time when she was arguably one of the most popular performers in the world.
“Operator was specifically written for Whitney Houston,” says Macaluso. “[Houston’s record label] loved the song’s melody, but I think in the end the lyric wasn’t something they were comfortable with for her as an artist at that time,”
“There’s a million missed opportunities in [the music business] but for all the ones I’ve missed, a Whitney Houston cut would make up for a hundred of the less successful artists that I’ve [worked with] in my career.”
Here’s Way to Go as it appears on the Moving Out soundtrack, a song according to Macaluso is “as melodically and structurally as close as you can come to a Whitney Houston track”:
Aside from movie soundtracks and songs pitched to pop icons, Macaluso also spent a part of his career writing and recording soundalike songs for commercial use.
“Sometimes [advertising agencies] want something that sounds like Material Girl, but they don’t want to pay for a Madonna song,” explains Macaluso. “Fortunately I have a back catalogue for opportunities like that.”
One such composition is Rocking Moves, an instrumental that’s highly reminiscent of Tom Petty’s 1993 hit Runnin’ Down a Dream, because that’s exactly the song it was written to replace. Here it is as it appears in Moving Out:
Music to Move You
It certainly seems fitting that the development of a game about moving house (albeit in the most chaotic, hilarious way possible), would lead to the discovery of a soundtrack made up of mostly unheard, decades-old recordings, as though they were from a shoebox full of cassette tapes someone found shoved under the bed when they were boxing up the spare room. The end result is a game that sounds authentically rooted in the eighties without actually featuring any tracks you recognise, as though it arrived from a parallel dimension.
“The eighties was really my era, and I wish it would have never ended,” explains Macaluso. “But when I revisit these songs, I really do relive the moment.”
Macaluso in 2020, surrounded by his gold and platinum records.
Equally, it seems appropriate that the process of assembling the Moving Out soundtrack would be so collaborative, since working together is such a key component of the game.
“My greatest love is working with excellent [collaborators], because they bring your A game even further to an A+ game,” agrees Macaluso. “I just really wanted to go a cut above. I saw how much [SMG Studio] were putting into it, and you know they’re not an Activision, they’re a small company. I wouldn’t be encouraged by some of the bigger companies to participate like that, to the point that they even gave me a music supervisor credit on the game. So it was fulfilling for me, to be able to really step up and contribute to a significant degree.”
“I think they felt the love, and I felt the love too. So I gave it back.”
“It was a constant back and forth throwing ideas around and we had a lot of fun,” explains Szoke. “We enjoyed it so much that we designed a level around him and named it Lenny’s Mansion, and threw a heap of musical memorabilia in there including framed gold records,”
“We probably went a bit overboard, but that’s what Moving Out is all about!”
Moving Out is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch on April 28. You can stream the soundtrack in full here.
[poilib element=”accentDivider”] Tristan Ogilvie is the video producer at IGN’s Sydney office. He also wishes the eighties had never ended. You can find him here.
Netflix released the eighth episode of their blockbuster docu-series Tiger King, an aftershow titled The Tiger King and I, on Sunday, which included new some revelations from the motley crew of Joe Exotic’s big cat park featured on the show.
Due to the current self-isolating measures, host Joel McHale conducted remote interviews with Tiger King cast members John Reinke, Joshua Dial, John Finlay, Saff, Erik Cowie, Rick Kirkman, and Jeff and Lauren Lowe.
Each interviewee shared their thoughts on the success of the series and their newfound celebrity, with many stunned by the notoriety considering they just consider themselves regular working people who just so happened to be in a documentary. (Saff, for example, recounted being stopped by fans while on a late night run to Walmart, while Reinke said he’s had fans violate self-isolation rules to shake his hand while he’s on walks.)
Most of the revelations were about the series’ main subject, the now-incarcerated Joe Exotic (aka Joseph Maldonado-Passage), with the cast members reiterating their animosity toward him.
Here are the six biggest takeaways from The Tiger King and I (and SPOILERS ahead for the Netflix series):
Joe Exotic Killed a Horse and Fed it to Tigers
TV producer Rick Kirkham, who now lives in Norway, provided the aftershow’s most dramatic revelation. After accepting an elderly horse from its teary-eyed owner and assuring them the horse would live out its final days in good care, Joe waited until the owner left before shooting the horse dead in front of Kirkham.
“I don’t take care of nobody’s animals. Now they’re tiger meat,” Exotic told Kirkham before having the carcass chopped up and fed to his tigers.
Joe Exotic Is Actually Scared of Tigers
For a man dubbed “The Tiger King,” it turns out Joe Exotic is deathly afraid of big cats. Kirkham says that when Joe infamously posed for photos with tigers, the cats were harmless because one was blind and the other tranquilized.
Saff recalled that while Joe didn’t provide any financial assistance for the incident that cost Saff most of his left arm, footage of the mauling was used by Joe in a safety video shown to zoo employees.
Travis Maldonado’s Death
The most shocking and tragic moment on the show was when Joe’s husband Travis Maldonado accidentally shot and killed himself in front of Joe’s campaign manager, Joshua Dial, whose reaction was caught on a surveillance camera. Dial recalled the heart-wrenching seconds after Travis shot himself in the head and the fear and disbelief that he saw on Travis’ face before he died.
While Dial did not seek professional counseling — he hopes to soon — after witnessing the tragedy, neither did Joe. According to Dial, Joe instead sought out a shaman for help, but Dial claims Joe’s behavior only deteriorated after that.
Jeff and Lauren Lowe, who have an open marriage, were asked about their attractive nanny, which is a top search result when people google Jeff Lowe. (They said things are going well with Masha.)
But Jeff spent most of his time in the interview with McHale hoping to set the record straight about a few things presented on the show. Jeff bristled at being depicted as the show’s villain, claiming that those, like Joe, he helps out eventually turn on him.
Jeff, who revealed he owns roughly 60-70 Affliction t-shirts, said he knows the real reason why his former pal and business partner James Garretson became an FBI informant — and that it wasn’t because he illegally owned a lemur. Lowe, however, wouldn’t disclose what that other reason was.
Neither of the Lowes also knew why their pal and would-be hitman, Allen Glover, was interviewed in a bathtub at one point.
Should Joe Exotic Be in Prison?
“Good riddance,” said big cat handler Erik Cowie when asked about Exotic’s 22-year prison sentence. Cowie’s disdain for Joe Exotic was echoed by nearly every interviewee, all of whom recounted Joe’s ego, volatility, and overall nastiness. Only Saff showed any measure of sympathy, saying Joe did some good things for the less fortunate and that he hopes he doesn’t die in prison.
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What did you think of The Tiger King and I? Did it leave you with any lingering questions about the show or its characters? Let us know in the comments.
James Gunn, answering fan questions on Twitter, stated that nether of his upcoming films for DC and Marvel — The Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — are currently having their release dates affected by the coronavirus crisis.
Obviously, this could change somewhere down the line, but for right now Gunn explained “there’s no reason for The Suicide Squad release date to move. We are on or ahead of schedule. We were extremely fortunate to wrap shooting & set up editing from our homes (due to a post production team & studio with foresight) before quarantine.”
Right now there’s no reason for #TheSuicideSquad release date to move. We are on or ahead of schedule. We were extremely fortunate to wrap shooting & set up editing from our homes (due to a post production team & studio with foresight) before quarantine. https://t.co/URRFXX58r3
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.
Saturday Night Live has been on hiatus for several weeks due to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic, but the show returned on April 11 for a special remote episode hosted by Tom Hanks. Actors were confined to their homes, and Mikey Day made the most of it with a Twitch stream sketch featuring a very poor Call of Duty: Warzone player.
In the sketch, insufferable content creator “Cam Playz Dat” says he’s playing the new Warzone game, but actually begins a game of free-for-all in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. There is little time for those unfamiliar to discern this as he’s shot roughly one second into the match.
Cam Playz Dat criticizes anyone sniping by his respawn location, which is a tactic commonly used by Twitch viewers in order to kill streamers. Of course, this isn’t the reason he’s dying so quickly. He is just very, very bad at the game, and after snapping at a viewer who makes fun of him with a classic “your mom” comeback, he’s forced to apologize.
He eventually gives up on playing Call of Duty and switches to Super Mario Bros. You can probably guess how well that went.
Call of Duty: Warzone is available for free on Xbox One, PS4, and PC. The game recently passed 50 million players, hitting the impressive milestone less than one month after launching.
If you’ve been stuck at home the past couple of weeks, either working from home or trying to find something to entertain yourself with, then you might be happy to hear that Best Buy has just kicked off a big new sale on MacBook Pros, iMacs, and even a great 4K TV. Best Buy’s Easter Sale is only available for today, and supplies are limited, so be sure to snag any deal you might be interested in before time is up.
Both the Space Gray and Silver models of the 15-inch MacBook Pro are currently discounted $500. This particular MacBook Pro comes with a 2.3GHz, 8-core i9 processor; 16GB RAM; an AMD Radeon Pro 560X; and 512GB SSD. It’s an excellent laptop for production, video and photo editing, and more–if you need to work from home, this will handle the entire week with ease.
MacBook Pro, 15-inch with 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD
$2,600 ($3,800)
If you’re looking for something with a bit more kick to it, then MacBook Pros with more powerful specs are also getting huge discounts. The $3,800 is discounted to $2,600 and boasts 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD. If you’re looking for a laptop that can multitask with the best of them, then this MacBook Pro is a steal at only $300 more than its lower-spec counterpart.
MacBook Pro, 15-inch with AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20
$2,650 ($4,150)
If you need an even more powerful MacBook with a better GPU, then the MacBook Pro model with an AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 is the way to go. It excels at video production and even gaming–at least the games that are available on MacOS. In addition to the great GPU, it boasts an i9 processor, 32GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD.
iMac, 21.5-inch with 4K display
$1,050 ($1,300)
This iMac features significantly lower specs than the MacBook Pros on sale, but it’s also considerably cheaper. You get a 3.6GHz i3 processor, 8GB RAM, and a 1TB hard drive for $1,050–$250 off its regular price. If you’re looking for a Mac to work on while at home, then this is a pretty good deal.
Samsung 65-inch 4K TV, Q60 Series
$800 ($1,100)
If you’re stuck and have been looking at your TV, thinking you need to upgrade, then this is a great opportunity to do so. Samsung’s excellent Q60 series, 65-inch 4K TV is currently $300 off. It features HDR support and Motion Rate 240, which provide vibrant colours and a clear picture during fast moments, respectively. It also comes with four free months of Apple Music for new subscribers.
