AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

dierregi After the brilliant start, this second episode is a major downer. Possibly the worst of the whole series. A scary DeWitt, with an ugly haircut, plays Marie, a woman in her late 40s who becomes the single mother of baby Sara.IVF is my guess, because Marie does not look like the type of woman who welcomes male attention. I read somewhere Marie described as a 'young" single mother. DeWitt is 46 and looks like it. Nothing wrong with that, but "young mother" is not.Anyway, Marie one day almost loses her precious child in a playground and decides to have a chip implanted in Sara's head so that she can check Sara's location and see what Sara sees, via a tablet.Lots of reviewers claimed that it was "too easy" to foresee where the plot was heading. That's a lazy way to follow a story, just trying to guess what the plot twist could be. For me is the whole narrative that matters, with or without plot twist.What I disliked in this episode is not the predictability. It is easy to guess trouble ahead with a teenage daughter and an over-protective mother without a life of her own. I disliked: Sara's excessive bad behaviour, Marie hypocrisy and cowardice of not confronting her daughter, and the over-melodramatic ending. Not to mention the creepiness of Marie spying on her child's sexual activity and interfering with her life, without saying a single word about what is going on.In short, I disliked the whole narrative and not its predictability. I saw at the end that Jodie Foster directed and I was definitely underwhelmed.PS and yes, the actress playing teenage Sara looked older than 15 - the whole episode had a problem with age.

classicsoncall Perhaps the reason this episode of 'Black Mirror' fails for a lot of viewers is because it's possibly the one that comes closest to examining a technology that could actually exist today. Let's face it, the ubiquitous cell phone with it's ability to take pictures and record what's happening in real time has changed the lives of everyone using it, some for better and some for worse. In the case of 'Arkangel', an implant of some sort provides a masking ability as well, so that unpleasant or troubling images can be blurred to the recipient of the implant. It wasn't really made clear in the story why the Arkangel project was banned, but one suspects it would be for it's invasive impact on the subjects being supervised. A very creepy affair when a someone can dial into a sexual encounter or view illegal drug use about to occur. And as always, unintended consequences can often intrude to derail one's life without any apparent warning. For once, this is a Black Mirror episode that could actually take place.

xliu-01590 First of all, the ending is so predictable. Secondly, in other episodes, the technology is to be blamed. But in this one, there is nothing wrong with the technology. The kid doing drugs is not a consequence of the technology, but because she hung out with bad people. This would have happened without that piece of technology. The tech was actually good in a way that the mother stopped her child from doing drugs. Sarah would still have done drug and had sex as minor without the technology. The tragic ending just seems so farfetched and shallow. It totally defies the theme of black mirror.

numis1978 I am a huge fan of Black Mirror, and I had a huge disappointment after watching Arkangel. Promising story as I have watched the trailer, but it doesn't deliver at the end. Soooooooooo BAD ending. This shouldn't be among Black Mirror's list of episodes.