Shortly after, Russ survives a stroke, because Marie is notified when witness Sara experiences stress.
A filter can censor stimuli when they cause Sara stress, such as an intimidating neighbourhood dog. Marie can monitor Sara's vision and hearing with a tablet computer, along with viewing live medical data and past audiovisual feeds.
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Afterwards, Marie signs her up to a trial of Arkangel, a child monitoring system installed via an implant. Three-year-old Sara (Aniya Hodge) gets lost following a cat and a distressed Marie has to enlist help from neighbours to locate her. Single mother Marie Sambrell ( Rosemarie DeWitt) gives birth to her daughter Sara and raises her with help from her father, Russ ( Nicholas Campbell). The episode was poorly received in comparison to other Black Mirror episodes. They were mostly laudatory of Foster's directing style and DeWitt's acting but less complimentary of the storyline and moral, which were seen as simplistic, with many reviewers suggesting themes the episode could have explored in more detail. In one scene, a nurse incorrectly implies that an emergency contraception (EC) pill induces abortion, rather than preventing pregnancy.Ĭritics saw Marie as a parent afflicted with much anxiety and guilt and compared Arkangel to existing technologies for child monitoring, such as microchip implants and smartwatches. Differently-aged versions of Sara are played by different actors, with Brenna Harding playing her as a teenager. For the filming in November 2016, Foster chose a location in Canada to represent working-class America. The main theme of the episode is helicopter parenting as a woman raised by a single mother, Foster had many views which influenced the script, such as a more complex characterisation of Marie, and was given control of casting.
In the episode, the single mother Marie ( Rosemarie DeWitt) enrols her daughter Sara in a trial of Arkangel, an implanted technology which allows Marie to track Sara's location, current vision and hearing, and automatically censors distressing material.
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Written by series creator and showrunner Charlie Brooker and directed by Jodie Foster, it premiered on Netflix on 29 December 2017, along with the rest of series four. " Arkangel" is the second episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. Promotional poster released as part of the "13 Days of Black Mirror"