Black Mirror - Season 5, Episode 03: Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too
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Back to the exciting stories of Black Mirror in the fifth season which will be full of mysterious and thriller events. This series focuses on the bad side of the modern technology. As we see in the previous seasons, this technology may be the reason of your death or it can lead you to lose your mind and do many crazy things.
Owen Harris, Carl Tibbetts, Otto Bathurst, Euros Lyn, Brian Welsh, Bryn Higgins, James Hawes, Dan Trachtenberg, Jakob Verbruggen, James Watkins, Joe Wright, Jodie Foster, Toby Haynes, John Hillcoat, Colm McCarthy, David Slade, Timothy Van Patten
Paired with a late in the game rescue mission and an unsatisfying ending, "Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too" has nothing interesting or profound to say about pop music, girlhood, or technology.
By far my favorite episode of the season - and quite possibly of the entire series. Miley Cyrus delivers an amazing performance that seems to hit close to home for her.
Rice, Davenport, and Cyrus - two promising young talents and one of the world's biggest stars - are too talented for the middling roles they've been subjected to here.
It's a little bit of slapstick, a little bit of drama, all wrapped in a few broad messages about predatory music industry marketing practices. It also feels particularly off-brand for "Black Mirror."
What's amazing is the eery and sometimes hilarious meta references to Cyrus' real life. Her character and the real Ashley are differentiated by only a metallic wig, as you might remember from Hannah Montana.
Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too, may tell its story through a slightly different voice, but the story it imparts undoubtedly belongs in the cruel world of Black Mirror, and represents the best of Brooker's talent as a writer.
