So let me get this straight... the factory keeps pumping out product that isn't needed because of... consumerism? This sounds like a plot taken out of a children's story book, where it's all about creating a situation and sense need not enter the equation. In the adult world if there is no demand then supply ceases. There is no point and the effort is wasted. But it goes on here because... it's the machine. The bad machines.
The acting is good. Parts of this episode flow pretty nicely. The effects are sufficiently convincing. But even the last third feels like something is wrong. It begins halfway through when the move to the latter half of the episode feels to easy - there is clearly a need to make the variables go in a certain direction to reach a predetermined conclusion. I guess the autofac and the players were just pretty dumb. You'll understand when you see it.
I think it's a wasted opportunity - much of Electric Dreams feels this way. It's as if they didn't prioritize how much sense and plausibility existed in a script and they just ran with it the way they wanted. This is a very poor man's black mirror. I'd have to say that even the poorer episodes are still much tighter than this, and this episode was the highest rated here.
The acting is good. Parts of this episode flow pretty nicely. The effects are sufficiently convincing. But even the last third feels like something is wrong. It begins halfway through when the move to the latter half of the episode feels to easy - there is clearly a need to make the variables go in a certain direction to reach a predetermined conclusion. I guess the autofac and the players were just pretty dumb. You'll understand when you see it.
I think it's a wasted opportunity - much of Electric Dreams feels this way. It's as if they didn't prioritize how much sense and plausibility existed in a script and they just ran with it the way they wanted. This is a very poor man's black mirror. I'd have to say that even the poorer episodes are still much tighter than this, and this episode was the highest rated here.