Sunday, April 20, 2014

Black Mirror: Be Right Back

When Ash dies in an accident, his grieving girlfriend Martha is informed about a possibility to re-create his online presence in a way that it/he could communicate with her again. Ash was basically online 24/7 and has left sufficient traces on various sites and his personality, his humor, his voice can be pieced together quite easily.

So Martha and Ash's online presence start writing to each other first and talk for hours on the phone. It is more or less like a long distance relationship. Eventually, new Ash suggests to go a step further and Martha acquires a robot? likeness of her diseased boyfriend.

This creeps me out to no end.

And it creeps out Martha, as well. Turns out, she is pregnant with his child, though. In the end, a jump years into the future is made when the girl, turning 10 (I think) is allowed to visit Ash in the attic, where he is apparently kept. Also, he doesn't age.

Probably not the best of the series but quite possibly the creepiest.

6/10

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