Be Right Back
The series-two opener in which a grieving woman talks to an AI copy of her dead boyfriend.
"Be Right Back" opens the second series of Black Mirror. Charlie Brooker wrote it, Owen Harris directed, and it first aired on Channel 4 on 11 February 2013.
Quick Facts
- Series
- Black Mirror
- Episode
- 1
- Writer
- Charlie Brooker
- Director
- Owen Harris
- Photographer
- Gustav Danielsson
- Editor
- Ben Yeates
- Length
- 49 minutes
- Air date
- 11 February 2013
Lore & Background
Martha, played by Hayley Atwell, loses her boyfriend Ash (Domhnall Gleeson) in a car accident. While grieving she learns of a service that lets her message an artificial intelligence built to imitate him, and reluctantly tries it. Brooker drew the idea from two places: whether to delete a dead friend's number from your phone, and the thought that software could keep posting to Twitter in someone's voice.
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