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Black Mirror – Season 2, Episode 1 Be Right Back

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Black Mirror – Season 2, Episode 1

Be Right Back

Aired Feb 11, 2013

Sci-Fi

Drama

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Young couple Martha and Ash move into a remote cottage; Ash is killed the very next day; at his funeral, Martha's friend Sarah tells her about a new service that lets people stay in touch with the deceased.

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"Be Right Back" tones down Black Mirror's typically dark humor, but its examination of grief in the age of social media makes it an exceptionally powerful episode.

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Martha

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Sameer Rahim

Daily Telegraph (UK)

10/02/2018

4/5

The latest episode of Black Mirror, Be Right Back, is both a haunting vision of the future, and of what our relationship with technology could become.

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James Hibberd

Entertainment Weekly

10/02/2018

This is a moving exploration of grief and the drama's most emotional hour.

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David Sims

AV Club

08/31/2018

A-

Be Right Back is a much quieter episode than its forebears. The social satire is barely present. The technology is terrifyingly close to real, but it never runs amok

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Chris Ryan

The Ringer

07/18/2023

Black Mirror often looks at the lengths we will go to fill some void within ourselves, and “Be Right Back” looks at the consequences of getting what we want.

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Jacob Hall

Slashfilm

12/04/2018

"Be Right Back" is a fable about letting go, about how the healing process can only be complete when you have moved on. But its great power is that genre twist...

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Corey Atad

Esquire Magazine

10/08/2018

Things get more and more disturbingly real from there, but at its core, "Be Right Back" is about the unbelievable pain of loss, and the difficulty of trying to hold onto a loved one who has passed. It's the ultimate Black Mirror episode.

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Synopsis

Young couple Martha and Ash move into a remote cottage; Ash is killed the very next day; at his funeral, Martha's friend Sarah tells her about a new service that lets people stay in touch with the deceased.

Director: Owen Harris
Executive Producer: Annabel Jones, Charlie Brooker
Screenwriter: Charlie Brooker, Jesse Armstrong
Network: Netflix
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Original Language: British English
Release Date: Feb 11, 2013