This was a fabulous episode. It was really thought provoking. Loved how they proved that no amount of technology will ever replace human interaction.
This is just plain sad.
I am unable to say anything except that it is terribly sad... I am already depressed enough, and this show is making it worse than it is.
I hated the ending, but the rest was good. I definitely don't wanna replace someone I love, it seems disrespectful to ever think that a machine could replace someone I love.
The perfect way to blend technology with humanity and impressively done through a singular study on grief rather than a commentary on society as a whole.
In pure Black Mirror fashion, it of course portrays artificial intelligence as the villain and the complete opposition of human emotion...on paper, a replica of your late partner helping you get through the grief sounds good but ultimately there are no quick fixes in life and battles within ourselves have to always happen with...well, ourselves.
Great episode, I can see it hitting extra hard for people who have gone through this.
Man, this fucked with my brain. Especially since we have chatbots and such now that are at roughly the same level of realism.
I'd go insane too if I learned that I'll never be with the person I love anymore.
This one breaks my heart every time because I know that I would try to do the same as Martha (except with a family member, not a lover) & would likely reach the same conclusion. Being able to see this played out in a fictional narrative helps a lot with those what-ifs that creep into one's brain when faced with immense grief from loss.
Wow, wot a mind-fook!
8/10
Great but only because
Of Agent Carter's
performance, she definitely
makes this episode better
than it is.
Ironically I'm just watching
a movie on sky cinema
called Simulant which
is the exact same story
and set up but in a
1H 40M movie format
Staring my man
Robbie Amell and
Simu Liu.
Hayley and Domhnall are fantastic in this episode. Another really good episode.
Rankings:
The Prime Minister
The Entire History of You
Be Right Back
Fifteen Million Merits
Honestly it was a bit underwhelming. In the beginning it was said that later it can get access to private messages and I thought the writers will bring the story to that angle. I would have loved to see some strange behaviour unfolding that was unknown to Martha. Like Ash having a secret second life or something - the writers really could have developed this into that direction.
The bathtub scene scared the shit out of me.
Interesting episode; reminded me of Bicentennial Man (1999) with Robin Williams and even the main actress in both look alike.
Although I disagree on the technology portrayed in this near-futuristic setting. The handset she was using and the laptop are very dated if this was the case. By the time custom home AI, especially one this so far in advance, becomes available like this, we should already be using holographic screens/projectors; yet there's no representation of that in this setting. The point really is more in the story of how one handles a loss of a loved one using synthetic/technology to fill the void.
P.S. "How Deep Is Your Love" is also my favorite BeeGees song
Really enjoyed this episode. I do have an issue with the second half, I felt that it was just an issue of the tech service not being up to par instead of some deeper emotional problem. This takes away from other paths this scenario could've played out that would've been more dramatic. In the first half, the service seemed to be working well in that mode so was a bit confused why it couldn't transfer over to the second half of the episode.
Other sci-fi films that this episode reminded me of that are worth checking out:
- Advantageous
- her
The most unbelievable thing from the show so far is when she asked him where he learned how to have sex and do it like that because she was really into it and him saying he learned it watching porn. Come on, men in porn have NO IDEA how to please a woman.
Loved this episode. The final scene should've been cut though.
god this one was very sad :broken_heart:
where can i buy this?????
Good episode and very "haunting". 7.4/10
It was exceptional till right after the middle. After that it started to going down. And the final scene is... from another episode?
What I really love about these sort of plots is that is not too detach from reality. Well the body was but the conversations and AI chats could be doable next years if not now, but then ethics play an important role... Meh. Good one though very good episode.
My favorite Black Mirror episode of the first two seasons, in part because it takes the complaint I consistently have with the show: the concept and its morality swallowing its human characters whole (and not in a metaphorically fitting way), and reverts that. The technology and the commentary on it are a natural, subtle extension of the story of how grief can stop us from moving forward. Not coincidentally, it also has the most fully fleshed out character, whose agency of choices in her own story make her more than pawns to the plot like most characters in other episodes (only "The National Anthem"'s scale benefits from that kind of inevitability, in my opinion). Of course, it helps that Hayley Atwell is phenomenal in the role, giving each choice of her character's heartbreaking arc full emotional weight. Also nice that even while having the humanism countering the show's nihilism more than usual, the episode still doesn't avoid some disturbing touches here and there, including its ending, which manages to be both beautiful but very chilling.
Cried hard. Hayley Atwell is amazing.
I'm still surprised happens as history and as developed
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If you liked BRB, do try to catch the movie Her which explores kinda the same plot but from a different angle. Here the main character (a woman) was already in love and hence the AI was competing in a way. In the movie, the main character (a guy) meets the new AI and gets reeled into a relationship (if we can call that) with her.