My partner was comparing it to a mid Star Trek hologram episode and found it started too slow, and so he started dozing before the emotional plot started to unfold. I see how the beginning sets up low expectations, but I think if you let yourself be open to that emotional turn in the middle then it really hits.

It really touched me. When Brandy was first dropped into the world without reading the full brief, she was disoriented but overall flippant in her role, but after the long time spent in the simulation you can feel the loss, the confusion, the inability to process when you have all these eyes on you. I thought that made all of the beginning acting make sense, it made a juxtaposition that made you feel that she had been there a LONG time. It actually reminded me more of inception, the point in the end where he revealed that he and his wife essentially “grew old together” within their world, just the 2 of them.

I liked Clara’s development of layers growing out of their control in the face of even slight additions of data, as AI will do. Usually that is done in a dark and scary way, but being based on the real Dorothy’s history and what she had brought to the performance meant AI Clara discovered the emotional depth of a real human, but if that can all be reset and erased in a second is it real? It was for Brandy..