Black Mirror (TV Series) Arkangel (2017) User Reviews

Very watchable, but it could've been so much more.

[aleeward · 6/10 · 31 December 2017]

The initial premise of this episode had me filled with great anticipation for another thought provoking gem. However as the story rolled on it became as predictable as spinning a 50 pence piece on a table. It never quite got to the edge and inevitability spun to a flat and foreseen ending.

An interesting idea but a predictable execution

[peterlravn · 7/10 · 24 January 2018]

The idea for the story is interesting. An overprotective mother buys an all knowing surveillance kit for her daughter, making it possible for her to see what the daughter sees through a tablet, and making it possible to blur out everything not suitable for children. As soon as the surveillance kit - called the Arkangel - is installed, you start wondering how this little piece of device will turn everything upside down.

Unfortunately, everything turns out exactly how you expect it to. It's the mother's overly protective parenthood and the "little girl's" rebellion against the her. We've seen it times and times before, and it doesn't fit the format of Black Mirror.

The acting is fine, but not anything worth noticing. The characters are made very flat and uninteresting. They are all extremely sterotypical - the overprotective mother, the daughter who wants to be free and the 'dangerous' drug selling boyfriend.

Overall, the episode is not necessarily bad, it's just not good either. A mediocre episode not on par with some of the other excellent stories from Black Mirror.

6.5/10

Subpar by black mirror standards

[hillnick-51908 · 7/10 · 2 January 2018]

I had really high hopes for this episode. Its premise is fantastic. A service that lets you see your child's exact location and even see through their eyes? But it just didn't deliver. Don't get me wrong, this wasn't a bad episode. But it doesn't stack up to Black Mirror's other episodes. The ending was also predictable and somewhat bland. 7/10

Black Mirror still hasn't lost its dark magic

[TheDonaldofDoom · 29 December 2017]

One brilliant thing about Black Mirror is that despite each episode having a common thread- technology- no two episodes are the same. Sure, there's the 'typical' Black Mirror episode like White Bear with its mindf***ing ending, but not even any of those episodes stick to a formula. ArkAngel is different in tone and style to any other Black Mirror episode, yet still retains the essence of Black Mirror.

There's more focus on characters, with the main focus being on Sara's development and her relationship with her mother and her boyfriend. And that's good, because without the characterisation it would fail at achieving its purpose. Its tone is more emotional, less dry than the black humour of most Black Mirror episodes. That's not to say there isn't any black humour here though.

ArkAngel is a warning against overprotective parenting, an issue that's relevant in the era of the 'snowflake generation'. Should children and even teenagers be shielded from every aspect of the real world that might be dangerous or uncomfortable for them? This fable suggests attempts to protect children from reality will ultimately backfire. As the ArkAngel device eventually isolates Sara from other kids, her mother turns it off. But the real world is a scary place and entering it is a sudden change. Though Jodie Foster does a pretty good job of showing this (along with a few laughs as Sara is introduced to porn and violence) perhaps a slightly larger emphasis on how disturbing this change would be would have been more effective.

The really great parts come in the second half as an older Sara does things typical teenagers do and her overprotective mother interferes into her most intimate moments through her device. This results in a great showdown between Sara and her mother, although a proper wrapping up of her relationship with her boyfriend would have been good. It's an unusually open-ended ending for Black Mirror, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

So what can be said about ArkAngel? It's an excellent Black Mirror episode, with a tone and focus that helps it feel fresh and different to any other episode (as well as the awesome concept).

Predictable helicopter-parenting story

[Gelaos · 7/10 · 14 October 2020]

The topic is civil, if somewhat predictable and boring. There's really nothing interesting or beyond average in this episode. It's not bad, just average. However, in terms of real-life it's very disturbing because the things displayed in the episode (overprotection, developmental issues as a result of overusing digital technolgoies) are already happening today.

Parental guidance gone mad.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 2 January 2018]

I'll admit to being initially underwhelmed by this one, but as it went on it got better and better, with the story becoming more and more compelling and the agenda of Sara's overbearing mum Maria becoming more controlling. With all the enhancements in technology and society's craving for more and more technical integration the real scare here is this felt like something that could perhaps be a reality one day. The arguments for and against the implant device are well balanced, you see things from viewpoints of Sara and Maria. Superb performances from Rosemarie DeWitt and Brenna Harding, and wonderfully directed, bravo Jodie Foster. Another sizzling episode. 9/10

"Just throw it away. Problem solved."

[classicsoncall · 7/10 · 3 February 2018]

Perhaps the reason this episode of 'Black Mirror' fails for a lot of viewers is because it's possibly the one that comes closest to examining a technology that could actually exist today. Let's face it, the ubiquitous cell phone with it's ability to take pictures and record what's happening in real time has changed the lives of everyone using it, some for better and some for worse. In the case of 'Arkangel', an implant of some sort provides a masking ability as well, so that unpleasant or troubling images can be blurred to the recipient of the implant. It wasn't really made clear in the story why the Arkangel project was banned, but one suspects it would be for it's invasive impact on the subjects being supervised. A very creepy affair when a someone can dial into a sexual encounter or view illegal drug use about to occur. And as always, unintended consequences can often intrude to derail one's life without any apparent warning. For once, this is a Black Mirror episode that could actually take place.

Lack of Privacy

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 17 April 2018]

Marie is an overprotective mother of Sara since she was born. When Sara is a little girl, Marie loses her in a playground and decides to experiment a new technology to control what Sara can see or not and track her, implanting a chip in her. When Sara is a teenager, Marie promises to remove the parental controls from the device and put it aside. One night, Sara stays until late hours making love with her boyfriend Trick in his van by the lake and Marie restarts the device, seeing what her daughter is doing. What will Sara do when she discovers what her mother did?

"Arkangel" is an episode of "Black Mirror" that makes any father or mother think of how far he or she shall control his or her kids using technology and keeping their privacy. There are smartest ways to do that not necessarily using a parental control of an electronic device, but with dialogue. The conclusion is absolutely predictable, despite of Marie best intentions. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Arkangel"

Not the best, not the worst

[SureCommaNot · 7/10 · 3 October 2020]

Why cast someone who's clearly 20+, as a 15-year-old? I couldn't suspend my disbelief on that one.

Other than that, decent episode that, while failing to stick the landing, should provide an adequate cautionary tale.

Might Just Get Helicopter Parents to Think Twice

[lskenazy · 10/10 · 30 December 2017]

In this episode, a mom gets the power she thinks she wants. A chip embedded in her daughter's head allows her -- mom -- to see everything her child sees, and even pixilate out anything disturbing her daughter might encounter, like blood, or an argument.

This is the kind of power tech is actually close to giving parents today. Already there are apps that let you watch on a map where your child is walking, see what they're looking at online, read their texts, scan their photos and even tell their temperature and blood pressure from afar. A new app being developed by a company called Kiddo promises to compare the food your child eats with the exercise their Fitbit shows them getting. If calories consumed are greater than calories burned, the app then lets the parent prescribe a certain amount of extra exertion: "That sundae means you have to do 23 more jumping jacks, Olivia!" We are told we can and must control everything our children do/see/think/worry about and, apparently, eat.

Parents are just starting to understand that with great power -- in fact, with superpowers never before afforded to human beings -- comes great angst. After all, if we CAN watch everything our kids do -- must we? What about our relationship to the child? What about trust? Privacy? Our own happy memories of time we spent far beyond our parents' eyes and ears? Are our kids our prisoners, to be constantly supervised? Our patients, to be constantly monitored? Or are they our pets -- beloved, but wholly dependent on us? That all feels bad. And yet: What if something "bad" happens and we could have prevented it with more vigilance?

That's the push the marketers are giving parents: Now that you CAN see all and prevent all -- why wouldn't you?

Kudos to Arkangel for showing us, in Gothic detail, exactly where that could lead.

And let's hear it for trust.

The Die is Cast!

[Hitchcoc · 6/10 · 14 January 2018]

Once the overprotective mother has an implant installed, she has set things in motion that can only get worse. Sara, in an opening scene, chases after a cat and her mother becomes obsessed with protecting her. She has kind of iPad that can be used to check her heart rhythms, her nutrition, and most of all, what she sees. The kicker is a device that blocks anything that may be traumatic, so the girl grows to adolescence having a totally sheltered life. When the plug is pulled, she begins to experiment like crazy with her peers. Soon the mother resurrects the device with horrible consequences. The episode is really hard to watch. The mother is really the central character in that she can never accept her daughter being on her own.

Over Caring

[layox · 9/10 · 13 April 2022]

Arkangel's episode from the black mirror should be an eye-opener for parents and future parenting. Children should experience all incidents from a young age. However, stopping them from making mistakes might be the biggest problem. This episode is not only for parents but also for couples, we should trust our partners and don't spy and expect explanations for everything. My takeaway will be not to care about anyone too much.

Arkangel

[scottsetchell · 7/10 · 30 April 2019]

Updated Review - 10/16/2023

The Arkangel technology is a child's worst nightmare. 24/7 monitoring with constant parental restrictions nerfing the world before your eyes.

This episode views the difficulties that result from being an overly protective parent, as well as the child who ultimately suffers for it. The invasion of privacy creates tension and breaks the trust between the mother and daughter. The timeline is interesting, seeing how the technology affects her as a child and as a teenager.

Arkangel is a sci-fi drama with an interesting concept and it delivers what it sets out to accomplish. Like I said before, it's fairly predictable with an ending that feels cold and abrupt. I didn't get as much out of a rewatch as I had hoped for.

7/10

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Review from 4/30/2019

Marie gives birth to a baby girl named Sara. After going missing when she was three, Marie decides to visit Arkangel for a free trial monitoring implant. Marie can track Sara's location, health and filter what she sees through a tablet.

This episode shows the impact that overprotective parenting can have on a child. Since she was three, Sara had every image perceived as bad blurred out, leaving her to wonder what blood, violence and sex really are. She was bullied at school for being filtered and being no fun because of it.

It's directed by Jodie Foster, she makes this sci-fi drama feel both the mother and daughter's perspectives. Marie only wants her daughter to be safe while Sara learns her privacy is constantly being invaded. The acting by Rosemarie DeWitt and Brenna Harding are very good.

Arkangel is a solid addition to Black Mirror, despite it being predictable. This is the first episode directed by a female and Jodie Foster pulls it off.

8/10.

Major plot holes in this one

[rdy-ever · 5/10 · 1 January 2018]

A good idea badly executed. The story makes perfect sense in the first half of the episode: an over protective mother enroles in a beta program for child surveilance that involves a chip being implanted into her 6 y.o dauhter's brain and a tablet on wich said daughter cand be located any time (GPS tracking is implied). As extra features, the device also sports real time surveillance (live retina video feed) and parental control filters (violent or explicit images are blurred/pixelated, audio is scrambled). This feature is optional and clearly a very bad idea to begin with, but the mother ends up abusing it, pushing her daugheter into developing a very predictable deviant behaviour (stabbing herself with a pencil just to see blood). At a doctor advice, she then decides to switch off the parental controls and puts the tablet away for what should've been forever. Fast forward to the second half: The action resumes with a 15 y.o teenager and a suspiciously unaged mother (they really should've done a better job in the first half, making the actress look younger - but this is just a small mistake). Predictably, the girl starts shagging her childhood friend, that now grew up to be a furniture delivery guy/drug dealer. The mom finds up her daughter is lying to her so she powers on the old tablet and catches a live porn feed involving her daughter and the before mentioned boyfriend, drug abuse, etc. Instead of confronting her daughter, she decides to do some cyber helicopter parenting, blackmails the boyfriend into dumping her daughter and drugs her with an emergency second day pill so she will lose the implied pregnancy. The daughter gets sick at school from the pill and finds up this way that her mother is still using the tablet to spy on her. Goes home, finds the tablet and beats the life out of her mother with said tablet, then runs away leaving her mother in a very poor state.

What's wrong with all that? In the first half, the doctor says to the mother that the Arkangel program is already banned in Europe and will be shut down in the US later that year. You also don't have to be a software engineer to figure out that the Arkangel application needs to communicate with a server in order to work. It's also subscription based, but she was admitted as a trial in the beta testing. All these considering, the audience is forced to believe that the tablet based surveillance system still works 9 years after it was banned in the US. Further more, the daughter finds the tablet and just acceses the application without any kind of login security (when they show the mother how to use the tablet, the operator shows her that she must enter a PIN to use it). So, basically, the whole second half action is based on a false premise that the Arkangel system still works, and anybody that can get his hands on the tablet (that's just lying around under the pillow) can access what was supposed to be a very secure app without any authentification.

S4E2: Arkangel: Disappointingly straightforward

[bob the moo · 11 February 2018]

The second episode in the fourth run of Black Mirror was already known to me on the strength of Jodie Foster directing it; quite something for a British guy I knew from his scathing takedowns of Big Brother episodes in The Guardian all those years ago. Putting the gender milestone (first episode directed by a woman) to one side, Arkangel is surprisingly run-of-the-mill, even though it has a lot of potential. The concept is easily within reach in many ways, and as a parent my first feeling is to protect my child from anything that might upset them, and to want to know where they are at all times. At the same time though, I see that stopping them being exposed to anything in the real world will probably do more harm than good in most situations.

As a result, most of us should be easily hooked into the dilemma posed by this technology and the extended version we see here. The episode though, doesn't really make the viewer feel that conflict; it is very clear wat is felt and it plays out in a way that is far too on the nose for the most part, and doesn't really cause conflict, or the shivers - in fact it does just what you know it will. This in itself is a weakness since, we know overprotection will go bad, but yet I didn't connect to that challenge from it - it let me off the hook with the way it is straightforward in its narrative. The production standards, ideas, cast, etc are all of high quality, but in the end it is too simplistic in what it does and the message it is delivering.

A surprisingly disappointing episode considering the potential in the material, and the talent behind it.

Creepy but simply a story about using spyware to protect children and abusing the technology to attempt to control the children when they become teenagers

[clivy · 6/10 · 3 July 2023]

I was creeped out by Arkangel. I have to agree with many reviewers that the story was a bit predictable, and I guessed that once Sara started lying to her mother about where she was going she was going to get into sex with her boyfriend. The drug use wasn't a surprise either although I was gasped when Marie said Sara was only 15. Here in the UK the age of consent is 16. I grew up in the US in the 1970s and I was a good girl: my parents always knew where I was. I knew some kids at school who did drugs and had sex but I didn't think that was standard for all teenagers even in the 1970s in my home town of Miami where it seemed to be faddish at the time to take Quaaludes and do angel dust according to what the kids at my high school joked about. My friends and I didn't really drink and none of us smoked cigarettes. I had major issues with my parents because they were controlling, particularly about my appearance and my weight. My mother kept insisting on telling me what to wear and gave me hell if I tried to eat something she thought was fattening. I wasn't allowed to buy or wear my own clothes. They didn't like any of my friends when I was in high school and kept pressuring me to go out with the sons or grandsons of their friends. I thought while watching the show it would have been unbearable for me if my parents could have spied on me and then screamed at me when I came home from a party, "You ate cake! You cheated on your diet! You changed into that skirt that's way too short and I told you not to wear! And you didn't talk to anyone!" or "You didn't talk to the boy we think is nice because we know his parents, you talked to that boy we think is weird!"

I thought the parental control device that blocked out violent or distressing images was farfetched. Arkangel could have made the story more dramatic by showing more of how the parental block was hurting Sara's development or perhaps affecting her at school by preventing her from understanding material in the classroom such as history or biology. The show didn't spend much time on this. It also didn't show much of Sara's relationship with her mother as a teenager before she decided to lie about meeting boys at the lake and getting into sex- also, Sara seemed to get into intercourse very quickly, unless she already had experience fooling around with boys (I mean making out) and taking off her clothes with them. The audience doesn't see if Marie still sees her daughter as a child and treats her like one, or if she trusts Sara and allows her to make her own decisions. It is disturbing how Marie spies on Sara, storms to the store where her boyfriend works and threatens him and tells him to stay away from her daughter. It's also disturbing that Marie buys the morning after pill, crushes it and puts it in Sara's smoothie rather than talk to her about her boyfriend and her pregnancy. I wondered if Marie is afraid to talk to her or if she doesn't want to talk to her on an adult level because she still sees Sara as a young child. The audience doesn't know anything about Marie's past: it's possible she made mistakes and she doesn't want Sara to repeat them. The episode would have much more dramatic weight if we knew more about Marie's values and her personality. There isn't much to her aside from her role as concerned single mother: we aren't shown more about the guy she's seeing and if she's having a causal fling or if she's in a relationship with him. The episode could have benefited from seeing Marie in her relationships and her behavior with others. It also would have been an interesting twist for Sara to see a part of Marie that Marie didn't want her to see.

Arkangel has potential but it's a shame that the episode explores only one idea, and doesn't flesh out Marie, Sara, or the other characters. It's simply a story about a mother wanting to protect her daughter and then losing her because she ends up spying on her and trying to control her life behind her back. We aren't told either why the software ends up being banned in Europe and then the US. Presumably it has to do with privacy, which seems to be the main warning of the episode, that abusing technology will lead to loss of privacy and will damage relationships between parents and their teenaged children. The Entire History of You explored much more effectively the issues of technology, privacy and trust.

I want to thank the reviewer who made excellent points about the software itself, that Sara couldn't have been able to log in without a pin code or user ID (maybe Marie shut the tablet off while she was still logged in) and that the system wouldn't have been able to work 9 years after the supporting servers , hardware and software were shut down.

Very emotional episode.

[mfmehmood · 9/10 · 12 July 2019]

Being overprotective of your child is a good thing but there is a limit. This is shown in this episode which is greatly directed by Jodie Foster. Using technology to track your child's every move doesn't turn out well for this mother. It leads to a dark turn for her daughter as she did something I did not see coming. The scene where she beats her mother was extremely shocking to me (and somewhat unprecedented because she's not really a violent person). It ends with sadness as her mother looks for her.

Simple Mistake

[scottfreckle · 6/10 · 13 February 2018]

I'm only a little way in to this episode, maybe it wont bother anyone else but it's irritating me that when the girl goes from being little to maybe around 11 or so, she apparently changes from being right handed to left handed, that's a careless mistake to me.

THIS IS WHY I LOVE BLACK MIRROR

[gaboanto · 10/10 · 23 July 2018]

Ok so, this story is all about an over protective mother, who since the beggining is shown how scared she is that her little girl gets hurt in anyway , her mother is way too f-up . AND i love it! It's realistic, there are real overprotective parents all around the world and that's ot the kids fault ,its the parents where they invade their childs privacy.the mother doesn't let her daughter make her own mistakes ( cause well thats called evolving amd learning) and ultimately makes her child have issues ( as is shown in the chapter as how she wants to see and taste and touch everything, cause for so long it was denied to her) leading up to a perfect ending, where you can see the value of this episode " if you pull too hard on a leash, it will eventually break"

Have you checked the children?

[safenoe · 7/10 · 15 January 2021]

Arkangel is directed by Jodie Foster, and all credit to the location manager for giving Hamilton, Ontario, a special spot in the annals of Black Mirror. Here this episode presents helicopter parenting to the extreme (parents with prams screaming "EXCUSE ME!!!!!"). It's not a pretty sight, with the mother, Marie Sambrell (Rosemarie DeWitt) realizing she can see everything her daughter Sara (the wild teenage version played by Australian actress Brenna Harding).

The ending is sad but inevitable.

How far should parents let go of their kids?

Arkangel is a cautionary tale of motherhood; lead by a powerhouse performance from Rosemarie DeWitt

[DissidentRebel · 8/10 · 29 December 2017]

The negative reception this episode is receiving is honestly baffling to me. While the season 4 opener, USS Callister took a much more out there approach; for me Arkangel is classic Black Mirror and Charlie Brooker, and its simplistic and stripped down approach works to great effect. Upon hearing that this episode had an indie feel to it - along with having Jodie Foster directing - I couldn't have been more stoked.

Here we follow Marie, a single mother who, after losing her three-year old daughter Sara at a park, decides to take part in a prototype technology. The company, Arkangel allow Marie to take part in a free trial; this includes her daughter being chipped, which gives Marie access to not just Sara's location, but the ability to see through her eyes. However, as her daughter ages, Marie finds that the added feature with the Arkangel product - the ability to shield Sara from so-called "harmful" images - becomes an issue after finding Sara self-harming. From here, the relationship between mother and daughter is strained as Sara's curiosity grows, and Marie's obsession deepens.

This may be one of Black Mirror's most thought-provoking episodes. It tackles the topic of helicopter parenting in such a dark yet wholly realistic manner. It's definitely the acting that aids in this; Rosemarie DeWitt is incredible as struggling mother, Marie - and the actresses who portray Sara throughout the years are great, too.

Unlike USS Callister which, while fantastic, lacked the deeply disturbing factor that many Black Mirror episodes include. Arkangel includes a good dose of downright uncomfortable imagery and scenarios; most notably in the powerful yet wholly traumatising climax - which demonstrate just how dangerous helicopter parenting can get when a child's privacy is imposed upon. And as for the final scene? Well, that's one I'll be thinking about for a while.

All in all, Arkangel is a classic episode of Black Mirror - despite some predictability. With great direction by Jodie Foster, a poignant story to tell, and a climax that made me feel weak. Arkangel is an episode of Black Mirror that won't leave me for a while.

Not a masterpiece, but not the worst the series has to offer.

[TheGuyWithTheCoolHat · 7/10 · 14 January 2018]

Black Mirror is at its best when it's stripped to its basic components and reworked from the ground up to look like what its creators think the series is supposed to be. This episode, although it does have differences at a surface level, is nothing new for Black Mirror. It's "The Entire History of You," but with some fancy camera work and more teenage angst. The episode begins with the birth of Sara. Her mother already feels like she's let her down by being unable to push. Behind a curtain the doctors are cutting her open and taping her back together, symbolic of the chaos that happens when she can't see it- despite it all going to end up okay, she's fearful. The story for a while after is simple and not very meaningful. Sara gets lost, Arkangel gets implanted, she stabs herself, Arkangel gets turned off, yadda yadd. The stimuli overflow when she's 8-10 leaves her with a different sense of life, but it doesn't seem to change her much. Then she gets into wacky teenager antics and then- whoops, hard drugs. Her overprotective mother sees this, regretfully, and tries to separate her daughter from the bad influence- through albeit illegal means. Yadda yadda, Sara beats the **** out of her mom with an ArkPad and leaves town. We don't know what happens after, but it's not significant- except that her ArkPad ends up in a museum with a sick **** named Rolo Haynes. Things are very expectable. Nothing gives a strong oomph. But is it worthy of a 1-star rating? No. Like a said, just because it's lackluster for Black Mirror doesn't make it bad by any means. I feel like there wasn't much else they could have done with the concept. The one thing I can give it is how modern it is- it felt more realistic than even "The National Anthem" or "The Waldo Moment," which take place in the present but are so far out of the expected that they're hard to take seriously.

Must-see for all parents

[dorotanataliasmetek · 10/10 · 1 March 2018]

This episode is written for all parents who wish to protect their children from all harm. You have to admit that during the first 25 minutes many of you thought that Arkangel seems like something you might consider buying. You would be able to see whether the babysitter is treating your child all right, whether the school teachers or other kids do not abuse your child at school... It is quite tempting to have this kind of control.

What differentiates Arkangel from other Black Mirror episodes is that it doesn't seem to be filmed in the future. The only device that stands out is Arkangel itself - which is something very probable in the near future. Right now my son has a smartwatch that enables me to locate him (which is fine for a 7 year old) and well as listen to what he says and hears without him knowing that I am spying on him! But if you control your child like this you cannot develop a trusting relationship... therefore I would never use this option.

What follows in the second part of the episode is a natural consequence of a relationship not based on trust but on control. It's ending might seem shocking to regular folks but we are Black Mirror fans alter all - we got quite used to escalation of violence - though it wasn't necessary in my opinion. Making your own daughter want to run away is the most painful punishment of all.

Growth of an individual should be in a Natural way! Overprotection is like making individual's path hard for future problems!

[nitishkumarmohanta · 7/10 · 20 August 2020]

Hmm! This episode is really brilliant and definitely recommendable to all the parents. It's gives us lessons and I also support over-protection or Over-Parenting is not that effective for a small child to be self-empowerment especially during his/her growth period. Child can go in a wrong path, but that's our duty to teach them properly what's right and what's wrong in this world and it's consequences. And for God sake plz Teach every small kid about Spirituality. Tell them it's importance and Be a Good mentor for Yoga and Satsang for them as early as possible.

Overall a Good episode indeed. It will directly affect into your brain and for sometimes you'll have to thing what's right and what's wrong in this storyline. Because you have to consider Both (Mom and Child's) Point of views and intentions. Anyway 7 Out of 10 Stars from my side. It have some violence and mild reference to sexual activities, So better to avoid watching it with family.

After drinking the same smoothie for 10 years, I'd do coke too...

[julia-stiltz-232-200832 · 2/10 · 18 June 2018]

I'm only giving this episode 2 stars due to how entertaining it was to make fun of. I'll start off with the sheer creepy stalker vibes that the mom radiates. Then you have that same damn dog she passes every day for like 10 years... How old is that damn dog! Along with the fact that she started watching porn with a creepy boy in elementary school, it does not surprise me that she was hooking up with guys in the back of a van at age 15. Overall, black mirror really dropped the ball on this one... plot holes, scattered, slow, and didn't really go anywhere. Started with a good concept, ended poorly.