![]() ![]() ![]() Dealing with issues as varied as cloning, what happens to our online profiles when we die and whether one should purchase a placid, fingerprint-less replica of a dead partner, Be Right Back is Black Mirror at its best: creative, melancholy and just a little bit twisted. Atwell plays Martha, who resurrects her late boyfriend Ash (Gleeson) as a chatbot – and then later as a seemingly realistic AI robot who shares Ash’s appearance but sadly not the subtle details of his personality. Starring the wickedly talented duo of Hayley Atwell and Domhnall Gleeson, Be Right Back was the first Black Mirror episode to tackle death and grief, topics that would pop up again in later instalments, and which are ripe for the kind of existential, brain-scrambling tales that Brooker and co do best. ![]()
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