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Black Mirror Recap: Remember Me
Paul Giamatti’s performance as Paul, a man revisiting his memories of a doomed relationship, makes for the most heartbreaking episode of the season.
When the company Eulogy first contacts Phillip at the home he inherited in Cape Cod, he’s a little reluctant to engage; the brutal end of their three-year relationship left a wound that has calcified over the years, if not fully healed. AI is powerful enough to sharpen parts of the images and fuse them with his own vague recollection to create this three-dimensional world he can poke around, but it’s not capable of filling in data that doesn’t exist. Here’s where we get the twist of the episode, which I really should’ve seen coming: The Guide was actually trained on Carol’s daughter, Kelly, the result of an orchestra dalliance that happened after Phillip’s slip-up with Emma.
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