Technology is no substitute for humanity
Season two’s “Be Right Back,” about a grieving pregnant woman (Hayley Atwell) who comes to regret allowing AI to reconstruct her recently deceased partner, is probably Black Mirror’s most poignant exploration of one of its favorite topics: the yawning divide between humans—who are rife with emotional messiness, flaws, and imperfections—and technology that tries its best to mimic humans, but instead produces unintentionally unsettling results.
