When Cliff jumps back down to Earth he also confronts Lana, who tells him that while nothing happened, she’s lonely and alienated from him as her husband: “For a moment, it felt like my husband was back and he saw that I'm real”. Lana speaks with Cliff and tells him that David’s visits have to stop.Ĭliff then finds a shrine of drawings dedicated to Lana in David’s space bunk and confronts him over whether he’s having an affair with his wife, and the pair get into a fight. But he begins to take liberties when he hits Lana and Cliff’s young son after he throws paint onto his landscape masterpiece, and David then makes a move on Lana (in the same way he did with his late wife, by slow-dancing to the song Beyond The Sea, hence the title of the episode).īut this romance isn’t reciprocated, as Lana tells David that it’s too confusing for her: him hitting on her in her husband’s body (well, quite). The trip becomes a more regular event, with David saying thank you by painting a picture of the couple’s house. It proves cathartic, as David-as-Cliff breaks down, crying into Lana while she gives him a much-needed human hug. You know, just to process what has happened?ĭavid thinks it’s a great idea, and agrees to do so. The real David up in the space station is completely devastated, to the point where he’s almost catatonic.Ĭliff and his wife, Lana (Mara) obviously feel for David, and Lana suggests an idea: why doesn’t David jump into Cliff’s body, enabling him to come back down to Earth for a bit of rest and recuperation. Then, if that wasn't enough, they set his replicant on fire. Yes, That is Another Culkin in Black MirrorĪ third of the way into the 80-minute film, the cult show up at David’s house, and as they believe the “natural order” of humanity has been perverted, they kill David’s wife and children while he’s forced to watch. Let’s pull it apart to see what it all meant… But while most of the violence is off screen, the ending is left a little ambiguous. Which is all fine and dandy, until a nature-loving death cult (including the actor Rory Culkin) shows up and causes everything to career out of control. But the technology is so advanced that the real-life men in space are able to jump back into their duplicate bodies down in the earth, so normal life can resume for a few days a week. David (Hartnett) and Cliff (Aaron) are both astronauts sent up into a space station for a six-year mission, and their cyborg clones are left down on earth with their wives and families. The standout episode from the new series features Aaron Paul, Josh Hartnett and Kate Mara in an alternate version of the 1960s, in which a human replicant programme has been created. Well, that was horrifying, wasn’t it? In perhaps the darkest of all the Black Mirror season six episodes, “Beyond The Sea” promised us a retro-futuristic look at space technology and ended with not one but two almighty bloodbaths, as well as two men staring into a loveless void for eternity.
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