In Season 5, Black Mirror doesn't feel as foreboding as it once did. Two of the three episodes end on a surprisingly hopeful note. The shock value has lessened, perhaps because we've grown numb to its ideas as the real world has started to catch up.
That's exactly why Season 5's final episode feels like such a missed opportunity. "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" left me with one lingering question: Why did they gloss over the concepts it introduced instead of continuing to stretch its own bizarro limits?
This episode had the potential to examine the profound and dangerous effects the tech it involved — mind cloning, self-aware dolls, artificial intelligence, hella realistic holograms — yet it feels half-baked in its efforts. It never expands to cover the humane and scientific depths of it all. Read more...
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