Arkangel
A mother implants her daughter with a system that lets her see through the child's eyes.
"Arkangel" is the second episode of Black Mirror's fourth series. Charlie Brooker wrote it, Jodie Foster directed, and it premiered on Netflix on 29 December 2017 with the rest of series four.
Quick Facts
- Series
- Black Mirror
- Episode
- 2
- Director
- Jodie Foster
- Writer
- Charlie Brooker
- Photographer
- Ed Wild
- Editor
- Jinx Godfrey
- Released
- 29 December 2017
- Length
- 52 minutes
Lore & Background
Single mother Marie (Rosemarie DeWitt) enrols her daughter Sara in a trial of Arkangel, an implant that lets her track Sara's location, watch and hear what Sara does, and automatically blur anything distressing. The episode is about helicopter parenting; Foster, herself raised by a single mother, shaped Marie into a more rounded character and controlled the casting. It was filmed in Canada in November 2016, standing in for working-class America, with Brenna Harding as the teenage Sara.
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