Be Right Back

Be Right Back is an episode in the Netflix Series, Black Mirror. This particular episode focuses on a wife and husband who seem to be living a normal life. It shows their ups and their downs and it shows how they are a normal healthy relationship. In the beginning on the episode, The wife tells her husband Ash to get off his phone while they are driving. This shows the characters ultimate flaw that, we assume takes his life. Through her grief we see her pain and her hurt due to the loss of her husband. A friend of hers then signs her up for a subscription. This subscription basically gives you an unhealthy way to stay "connected" to your loved on. It takes the sayings from Ash's social media and creates a system of replies in the form of text messages. His wife starts to communicate with this system, thus creating an unhealthy grief system that soon consumes her life. She begins to fill the void that has been left due to the loss, but then she is faced with the option of trying out their robot. They send her a, what seems to be, wax figure that is soon activated and takes for of her late husband. Everything is going fine, until she realizes that it will never replace her husband. The replies seem planned and not natural, her attachment to him is not the same and she cannot feel the same with the robot as she does with her husband. The episode ends with her having a daughter and her child begging to see Ash. This episode is interesting because the society is based in later years with updated technology. This is unethical in my eyes, and doesn't help the pain go away.