Claudio Carvalho
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"
scottfreckle
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.
Hitchcoc
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.
mark_nixon_gbr
This was utterly dreadful. A good idea, but no real development. If this was the first episode of season 1, this show would be dead.
AD
