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You Can Watch the Second Episode of 'Westworld' Right Now

HBO surprise-released the new episode Friday on HBO Go, HBO Now, and HBO On Demand.

HBO has released the second episode of its new show Westworld online a few days earlier than the usual Sunday air date, Entertainment Weekly reports.

Westworld will still air on Sunday evening at 9 PM along with the usual slate of HBO programming, but HBO surprise-released the new episode Friday on HBO Go, HBO Now, and HBO On Demand. Along with the second Westworld episode, HBO has advance released the new episodes of Divorce and Issa Ray's series Insecure.

The advance release seems to come in response to the second presidential debate, which is also going down on Sunday. The premiere of Westworld may have been HBO's most-watched premiere since the first season of True Detective, but the first presidential debate was the most-watched debate in history. It's hard to go head-to-head with that.

If you haven't seen the glorious robo-bloodbath that is Westworld's premiere, HBO's made the episode free to stream on its site.

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