Okay... so this is the episode I had heard about being very dark and scary... and I'm not sure if I just wasn't in the right headspace to watch it... but I just did not like the episode that much!
So the episode starts out with a couple partying, they seem drunk... then the guy driving hits someone and instead of calling the cops- which the girl wanted to do at first... he dumps the body into the river and drives away.
Years later- this woman, Mia, is married to someone else and she's a successful architect and public speaker... she has a family and she's moved on past this situation... or so we think. The man confronts her saying he'd like to go to the cops about it... and she ends up killing him.
This happens at the same time as an accident that is being investigated by an insurance company... and the insurance company actually has a device that can see your memories to see how things happened... and they end up investigating Mia about what happened and they end up finding out that she killed someone... and it is irrelevant to the insurance agent's investigation... she cries, leaves and says she doesn't need anything else from Mia... but then Mia takes matters into her own hands and kidnaps the insurance agent... even going so far as to use the memory device to see if the insurance agent has a family waiting for her... and Mia goes after her family as well.
It is a brutal episode that is hard to watch... but at the same time... it's a little predictable. I didn't quite think she'd go as far as she did end up going...and it was a nice, tight story the way that Arkangel was... but I don't know... it just was not my favorite episode... it might have been my least favorite one so far... and I don't think it's because of the intense violence... I just think this one didn't really go where I was expecting it to go. The world didn't feel all that different in this one the way that it did with Arkangel or with the next episode, Hang The DJ- which I'll review next week... It just didn't totally grab me the way other episodes did... so for that I'm going to give it 3 out of 5 stars... It may have just been my mindset at the time... maybe I just didn't really want to watch anything... but I just didn't love it!
So... that's everything! Sorry this is kind of a mehhhh review and recap!
Byeee!
-Shannon
So the episode starts out with a couple partying, they seem drunk... then the guy driving hits someone and instead of calling the cops- which the girl wanted to do at first... he dumps the body into the river and drives away.
Years later- this woman, Mia, is married to someone else and she's a successful architect and public speaker... she has a family and she's moved on past this situation... or so we think. The man confronts her saying he'd like to go to the cops about it... and she ends up killing him.
This happens at the same time as an accident that is being investigated by an insurance company... and the insurance company actually has a device that can see your memories to see how things happened... and they end up investigating Mia about what happened and they end up finding out that she killed someone... and it is irrelevant to the insurance agent's investigation... she cries, leaves and says she doesn't need anything else from Mia... but then Mia takes matters into her own hands and kidnaps the insurance agent... even going so far as to use the memory device to see if the insurance agent has a family waiting for her... and Mia goes after her family as well.
It is a brutal episode that is hard to watch... but at the same time... it's a little predictable. I didn't quite think she'd go as far as she did end up going...and it was a nice, tight story the way that Arkangel was... but I don't know... it just was not my favorite episode... it might have been my least favorite one so far... and I don't think it's because of the intense violence... I just think this one didn't really go where I was expecting it to go. The world didn't feel all that different in this one the way that it did with Arkangel or with the next episode, Hang The DJ- which I'll review next week... It just didn't totally grab me the way other episodes did... so for that I'm going to give it 3 out of 5 stars... It may have just been my mindset at the time... maybe I just didn't really want to watch anything... but I just didn't love it!
So... that's everything! Sorry this is kind of a mehhhh review and recap!
Byeee!
-Shannon
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