I’m surprised that no one else here has mentioned the most frightening moment of this episode - when the mother knows that Sara knows she’s using Arkangel again and she turns on the iPad and activates the “What Sara sees” feature, we see the mother’s back as seen from the doorway. That’s an Insidious/The Conjuring…

Yes, it’s unbelievable that in an episode where something like Arkangel exists that medicine like a morning-after pill wouldn’t have changed/evolved.

Yeah, I thought for sure teenage Sara was 17-18.  When the mother said “She’s fifteen!” I was like “Wait, what?”

By this logic, only a politician should have reviewed The National Anthem, only a soldier should have reviewed Men Against Fire, etc.

“Her daughter was fine for most of her life it seemed and grew up to be a normal teen.”

Unlike most other Black Mirror episodes, which don’t have an “over the top” ending.

Even in a future where Arkangel is available, teenagers are still going to hitchhike.  This is not something that new technology is going to stop.

When Microsoft stops supporting an older version of Windows, that version still works on your computer.  It doesn’t suddenly stop working when Microsoft stops providing updates for it.

A 15-year-old teenager lashing out physically against her mother who she just found out was still using the Arkangel to monitor her, spy on her having sex, blackmail her boyfriend, and then secretly give her a morning-after pill, was one of the most believable parts of this episode.

Some kids are just lazy.

I did laugh when she dug out the iPad from the box after not having used it for years and had to plug it in to turn it on because it had long since run out of its charge.

I was hoping the truck driver would be revealed to be the one played by Cherry Jones in Nosedive.

“I felt it was a bit of a silly, bordering on self-parodying, premise to have a parent, however over-protective, agree to have an unremovable John Malkovich chip implanted in their child’s head”

“She wasn’t pregnant.” Except she was. The school nurse tells her “You’re not pregnant anymore.”

“but I thought it was a shame she looked so old. I think it would have played more sympathetically for Mom if the daughter had looked younger.”

I can’t be the only one who has played some computer game where you have a party of companions and has often had them do terrible or self-harmful things, just to see what happens for my own amusement.

It’s a sign of how well this episode was made that I was feeling hopeful for the crew’s plan in the last act and had forgotten that their plan was basically a group suicide that I was hoping they succeeded in.

I guess you missed the part where his brain was directly linked into the game.  This episode wasn’t set in the real world.

“good episode.”

Daly’s body won’t be found for 2+ weeks - they said that everyone at work had the next 2 weeks off, and it won’t be until his absence is noticed at the office that anyone goes looking for him.