Not a black mirror. Initially, there were hopes to see something even remotely resembling the series “Black Mirror”. But hopes were faint. After the second series, they completely crumbled to dust.
If it were a darknet series, you would expect to see something sinister and criminal, like in the Hostel movies or at least like in the Squid Game. Instead, we are shown a taxi driver who, instead of a navigator, has Artificial Intelligence obsessed with punishing villains (the dream of any offended Russian taxi driver, heh-heh). Just 30 minutes of this inconspicuous action and the plot immediately jumps to a popular blogger named Sam, who has long been unlucky missing classmate Molly writes strange letters asking for help. And so, for no reason, the girl decides to go to another state to help out her ex-girlfriend. And not just her, because these letters came to another classmate, James, who is a math teacher in elementary school. So, a whole series is sucked up as Molly is about to go, then a whole ceria is chewed up as James is about to leave his state in search of Molly. Sam also attracts his boyfriend Ethan, who is skeptical. They all go to Texas together.
The series is more like the thesis of a novice student of the Institute of Cinematography. The topic is chosen so worn out along and across and is presented so primitive and incompetent that you do not even want to scold. Actors for three. Most of the series will have to watch the adaptation of rather primitive stories by Molly, which have nothing to do with the darknet or the main plot of the film. Yeah, by the way, let's move on to him. Give freedom to AI or leave it in an electronic cage? Would you risk the whole of human civilization if you had a chance to change the world for the better? In my opinion, the series gives the wrong answer to this most important question. It does not show the possible consequences of such a reckless and risky decision. Thus, either it is a fantasy of the inflamed brain of the immature psyche of the maximalist nihilist or it is an attempt to introduce into the consciousness of the masses certain ideas that are beneficial to global corporations, AI developers. Instead of them, obsessed with creating a Skynet from the Terminator, a fugitive hacker loner acts. Well, well. The topic of harm from the latest technologies in the series is also not disclosed. As a result, it turned out not a full-fledged series, but a set of short films of some kind, and terribly mediocre.
2 out of 10