Hit New HBO Show 'Westworld' Airs 4 Minute Orgy Scene

October 31st, 2016 12:18 AM

A few weeks ago, I said HBO’s Westworld was celebrating the basest of human behavior in an artificial world. Unfortunately, that was only scratching the surface compared to Sunday night’s episode “Contrapasso” which exploits, and I mean EXPLOITS, its Mature Audiences rating.

At one point in the episode, Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), William (Jimmi Simpson), and Logan (Ben Barnes) celebrate a successful hold up by meeting up at an orgy. From there, we are treated to 45 uninterrupted seconds of camera shots featuring dozens of people performing lewd sexual activities that cover every facet of the human body. Don’t worry, even that pesky thing called a plot doesn’t interrupt the pornographic acts as they continue on for at least another two minutes in the background. And if you were a fan of viewing those moments up close, you will be glad to see another thirty-plus seconds of sexual acts as the group eventually leaves.

When that scene was filmed, the SAG-AFTRA union had to monitor the set for the more than fifty extras who were required to sign a consent agreement that said:

This document serves to inform you that this project will require you to be fully nude and/or witness others fully nude and participate in graphic sexual situations. By accepting this Project assignment, you may be required to do any of the following: appear fully nude; wear a pubic hair patch; perform genital-to-genital touching; have your genitals painted; simulate oral sex with hand-to-genital touching; contort to form a table-like shape while being fully nude; pose on all fours while others who are fully nude ride on your back; ride on someone’s back while you are both fully nude; and other assorted acts the Project may require. The Project will also include language and sexual situations that some may consider personally objectionable or uncomfortable.

But, each extra was paid up to $600. How nice, is that the going price of your dignity these days?

At this point, the only thing truly innovative about the show is how deep it goes into depravity. At the beginning, nudity was used mostly to display the humanoid robots being operated on by scientists (as if that made it better), but now they seem desperate to add even more sex to it. In this episode we had to deal with more than four scenes of naked robots on operating tables, now showing full sex organs, in addition to the sex scenes.

With the season only half over, things will likely only get worse from here on out. Or perhaps this is actually “peak” Westworld, and the rest of these episodes can return to a less disgusting amount of gratuitous, graphic sex and focus more on fleshing out its intricate plot. It’s sad that that proposition is all I can hope for now.