![]() ![]() Yes, the commentary here is a little in your face, but the episode is handled so well, I don’t think it matters. It’s a pretty gripping tale of best intentions going horribly wrong and alienating the child you were trying so desperately to protect. The system also notifies her she’s pregnant, and her mother grinds up a plan B pill in her morning shake to end it. To make sure she’s not in trouble she reactivates it only to find her daughter having sex and trying drugs. In the episode, eventually the mother realizes she needs to scrap the system and let her daughter go, only she’s tempted into using it once again when her daughter starts lying to her as a teenager. This is all well and good when you’re telling little Susie not to steal from the cookie jar or find her when she wanders off from the park, but less good when her grandfather has a stroke and she blurs out the entire episode instead of calling for help. It also has a “filter,” where stressful content can be rendered mute and blurry to protect the child’s psyche. The tech here is “Arkangel” a tracking system for children that not only lets you see their physical location and vital signs, but also literally see through their eyes so you know what kind of trouble they’re getting into. I liked this one quite a bit because it wasn’t just inventing tech for some twisted plot’s sake, it’s something that I could actually see existing and being used with good intentions, only to have it fail miserably. Not that every episode has to be that, but given that it was clearly trying to emulate it, it’s hard not to see the difference in quality. It’s…cute, but a little too cute, and while I appreciate the rare happy ending on this show, there simply is not the emotional weight present here that we got in San Junipero. Running the bubble world sim reveals a perfect match if you and the other person decide to rebel to be together. This veers out of YA dystopia territory when it’s revealed that the couple, and all the couples, exist in the algorithm of a phone-based dating sim. Ultimately when the two are given the chance to meet up again, they decide to “buck the system” and run away together. ![]() The guy alternates between a dreary one year relationship and being single, the girl has a long affair with a vain guy and a large amount of flings. After a sparks-filled 12 hour first date, the central couple are separated. Go through enough of them and the system will automatically match you with “the one,” and you can quickly deduce that this is very much about both modern romance and dating apps. It’s charming enough, and the chemistry between its two leads is easily felt, but the concept is a bit wonky.Ĭouples exist in a little bubble world where they’re assigned timed relationships that can last between 12 hoursand 5 years. I do think Hang the DJ was trying to be this year’s San Junipero too hard. We’ve turned a corner into episodes that I liked, for the most part. This episode is well acted by its major players, but ultimately too dark and dumb to like. The second is that she’s ultimately caught because you can also extract memories from a guinea pig, it turns out, and she didn’t think to murder the pet that was sitting in the same room as the kid. The first is that the baby she murdered was born blind, so it wouldn’t have mattered if she’d left him as a memory eyewitness. I didn’t much care for this overly dark episode to begin with, but the final pair of twists are just eye-rolling. The problem is that the questions bring up memories of both murders annnnnd she promptly murders not only the poor insurance investigator, but also her husband and baby as both could potentially ID her. Sort of an ultra stripped-down version of the tech from The Entire History of You, a past, much better episode. The tech used here is a device that recalls memories that can be used in police investigations and in this case, for insurance purposes. ![]() She kills him, as it could doom her career, but after the elaborate disposal of his body, finds herself in hot water as a new traffic accident, a man getting mildly injured by an automated van which took place outside her hotel room that night, requires to come forward as a witness. A woman is confronted by a man from her past threatening to try to “make amends” with the family of a biker they accidentally killed and covered up when they were younger. ![]() Black Mirror is usually bleak, but this one just felt bleak for bleak’s sake with tiny tech angle that seemed shoehorned in to make it qualify for the miniseries. ![]()
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