Arkangel

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.

Very decent episode showing that you can't save your childs from whole dangers in life.

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.

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.

So, wow. I don't get how this is getting so much hate. I really have no idea.

This is a very down to earth episode about the human mind and helicopter-parents pushed to a Black Mirror standard. I can get behind everything unfolding in this episode and at all times am mesmerised at how interesting it all is.

I loved it from beginning to end. Fun to analyse, but I'll do that for myself at some point when rewatching. I'm sure there'll be a lot of videos online doing just that. I hope this doesn't become more hated on than it already is. I mean wow, it's a touchy subject for sure but ... give it a chance. Some of the flaws in here some see I just don't. Heads off to all the people involved and to Jodie Foster.

One of my favourite episodes of this whole series. Also, the age thing with Sara - I do not think it is an issue. But that'll be a spoiler if I elaboreted on it further. I think there are theorys that could clear that up or she just looks four years older. That is life, that happens, nothing bad or flawed about that.