Following each week’s episode of Westworld, show composer Ramin Djawadi will be Vulture’s guide to the music.
For episode two, Djawadi was asked to do a Radiohead piano reduction for two scenes in which madam host Maeve (Thandie Newton) is having trouble with her settings. She tries her programmed spiel on one customer and blanks in the middle of it, distracted by a memory. After her aggression is bumped up, she tries it again on a separate customer and fails again. The song plays both times, “as part of the repetition of resetting her,” Djawadi said. Should we infer any meaning as to the selection of the song itself?