I do think Hang the DJ was trying to be this year’s San Junipero too hard. We’ve turned a corner into episodes that I liked, for the most part. This episode is well acted by its major players, but ultimately too dark and dumb to like. The second is that she’s ultimately caught because you can also extract memories from a guinea pig, it turns out, and she didn’t think to murder the pet that was sitting in the same room as the kid. The first is that the baby she murdered was born blind, so it wouldn’t have mattered if she’d left him as a memory eyewitness. I didn’t much care for this overly dark episode to begin with, but the final pair of twists are just eye-rolling. The problem is that the questions bring up memories of both murders annnnnd she promptly murders not only the poor insurance investigator, but also her husband and baby as both could potentially ID her. Sort of an ultra stripped-down version of the tech from The Entire History of You, a past, much better episode. The tech used here is a device that recalls memories that can be used in police investigations and in this case, for insurance purposes. She kills him, as it could doom her career, but after the elaborate disposal of his body, finds herself in hot water as a new traffic accident, a man getting mildly injured by an automated van which took place outside her hotel room that night, requires to come forward as a witness. A woman is confronted by a man from her past threatening to try to “make amends” with the family of a biker they accidentally killed and covered up when they were younger. Black Mirror is usually bleak, but this one just felt bleak for bleak’s sake with tiny tech angle that seemed shoehorned in to make it qualify for the miniseries.
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