
Flicks, Steve Newall
Black Mirror isn’t the only gloomy technological future new to Netflix this week. I Am Mother sets out a less satirical, if no less pessimistic, stall—set in a repopulation facility after an “extinction event”. There, a young woman (Daughter) is raised by a robot (Mother), the mechanical caregiver learning parenting one-on-one before reviving humanity from the vast store of embryos Daughter herself originated from.
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