One must accept a lot on faith if this episode is to have any meaningful impact on you. My first 'what the heck' moment came when Mia (Andrea Riseborough) choked out and killed Rob (Andrew Gower) when he came by to state his intention to confess to the accidental death of the biker. His proposition seemed logical enough and he was going to keep his name anonymous. How Mia could have overpowered him didn't seem credible to me at all.
I had some trouble with the recall machine as well. When the old dentist believed the slicker he saw the woman wearing was lime colored, shouldn't that have been the color in the image he remembered? When Shazia (Kiran Sonia Sawar) stated to Mia at the start of her 'recall' interview that 'private stuff is private stuff', it sounded like a tip-off that she already knew about the porn movie Mia rented. She did of course, but that was an unforced error that put Mia even more on the defensive for what she could potentially reveal.
But the kicker of course was old Codger the guinea pig. Really? He was going to provide Mia's identity via the recall machine? That was an interesting twist that would have made more sense in an old time series like 'The Twilight Zone', but in one in which modern technology provides the linchpin to the effectiveness of these Black Mirror stories, it takes a tremendous leap of faith to believe an animal with a tiny brain like a guinea pig could be a credible murder witness.
As for the title of the story - Crocodile?
I had some trouble with the recall machine as well. When the old dentist believed the slicker he saw the woman wearing was lime colored, shouldn't that have been the color in the image he remembered? When Shazia (Kiran Sonia Sawar) stated to Mia at the start of her 'recall' interview that 'private stuff is private stuff', it sounded like a tip-off that she already knew about the porn movie Mia rented. She did of course, but that was an unforced error that put Mia even more on the defensive for what she could potentially reveal.
But the kicker of course was old Codger the guinea pig. Really? He was going to provide Mia's identity via the recall machine? That was an interesting twist that would have made more sense in an old time series like 'The Twilight Zone', but in one in which modern technology provides the linchpin to the effectiveness of these Black Mirror stories, it takes a tremendous leap of faith to believe an animal with a tiny brain like a guinea pig could be a credible murder witness.
As for the title of the story - Crocodile?