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    <em>Black Mirror</em>: ‘Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too’ Is a Fascinating Jumble

    The Netflix show’s fifth season shines brightest with a bizarre and intermittently compelling bit of pop-music melodrama.
    by David Sims Jun 05, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Netflix

    This story contains spoilers for the episode “Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too” of Black Mirror’s fifth season. Read the rest of our show coverage here.

    One of my favorite notions in science fiction is the . As artificial-intelligence technology grows more sophisticated, scientists and writers alike have the idea of uploading one’s whole mind, and perhaps one’s very “self,” to a computer. Would a digital facsimile of a person’s consciousness count as a person? This quandary has been explored in video games such as and films such as Don Hertzfeldt’s . And it’s the most compelling of several concepts touched on in the episode “Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too,” a bizarre and intermittently fascinating bit of pop-music melodrama.

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