Black Mirror
Black Mirror ’s time of year 5 episode " Rachel , Jack and Ashley Too " stars Miley Cyrus as adored pop idol Ashley O and Angourie Rice as her adore fan , Rachel , and theBlack Mirror"Rachel , Jack and Ashley Too " ending is typically complex . Rachel and her dark older sister , Jack are both still hurting from the death of their mother , and their forefather is too busy try out to perfect an innovative method acting of pest control to pay much care to their lives . Meanwhile , Ashley is dwell a life carefully assure by her auntie , Catherine , who is also Ashley ’s manager and keeps her medicated so she can be promising and peppy at all times .
Catherine ultimately poisons Ashley by giving her an overdose of the medication , putting her into a chemical coma , and then replaces the literal Ashley by steal strain ideas directly from her brain , to be sung by a virtualversion of her call Ashley Eternal . Meanwhile , Rachel and Jack use their Father-God ’s pest control technical school to putter with Ashley Too ’s , an unnaturally intelligent doll establish on Ashley ’s own idea , removing a limiting roadblock and let on that the doll actually contains a snapshot of Ashley ’s entire personality . Ashley Too demands to be taken to Ashley so that she can retrieve grounds of Catherine ’s manipulation , but things soon start to unravel .
What Happens At The End Of Rachel, Jack And Ashley Too
In theBlack Mirror"Rachel , Jack and Ashley Too " ending , Rachel and Jack drive through Ashley ’s house gate before they conclude after Catherine leaves for the Ashley Eternal upshot . At the home , Jack dissemble she ’s been asked by Catherine to deal with a rodent problem to get through the threshold . Ashley also pretends she need to expend the john to get away . Ashley Too call for Rachel to view the stairs , and then pull the fireplug on Ashley ’s comatoseness support machine , wanting to put her other self out of her misery . Instead of dying , however , Ashley wakes up - the machine was keep her unconscious rather than sustain her alive .
Ashley ’s " doctor " attempt to put her back into the coma , but Rachel and Jack aggress him and put him into a comatoseness with an injection . The three girls then step on it to the locale to put a stoppage to Catherine ’s plans . Ashley ’s malicious aunty is using a motion - gaining control performer , a CAT scan of Ashley ’s body , and a synthesized version of her spokesperson to create a version of Ashley that can be totally ascertain . However , her programme is deflower when Jack drives her father ’s pest control truck into the venue , causing pandemonium . Police meet and postulate that the girls drop dead the vehicle - and when Ashley does so , Catherine realizes that she ’s lose .
Sometime later , Ashley and Jack formed a circle and are take on to a crowd in an underground rock’n’roll bar . Rachel and Ashley Too are check the performance , with Ashley Too now beautify with punk tilt appurtenance . Some of Ashley ’s old fan are in the bunch , but they ’re horrified by the unexampled music and presently flee the venue in theBlack Mirror"Rachel , Jack and Ashley Too " ending .
Ashley Too, Ashley Eternal And “Synaptic Snapshots”
Black Mirrorfirst begin to explore the idea of by artificial means revive personality in the season 2 instalment " Be powerful Back , " in which a grieving widow replaced her husband with a living doll of him whose mind was crafted from her hubby ’s societal medium posts . In that installment , things ultimately fell aside when she recognise that the AI could only ever model a public theatrical role , and could n’t truly be her husband . Since then , however , Black Mirrorhas repeatedly explored the idea of actually copying a person ’s mind in its entirety - for model , in thegreat season 4Black Mirrorepisode " U.S.S. Callister,“where a genius recreated his coworkers inside a biz using their DNA .
The Real Meaning Of Rachel, Jack And Ashley Too’s Ending
At its core , theBlack Mirror"Rachel , Jack and Ashley Too " ending is about how the bright - eyed and ever - peppy ideal that pop stars are required to live up to is incompatible with being human . For Catherine , the fact that Ashley sometimes gets sad or raging or frustrated is a defect and one that she undertake to right : first by make Ashley Too , with a forced limitation on Ashley ’s genius that only allows her to puke PR - friendly catchphrases , and then by make Ashley Eternal , who can be made to do and say whatever Catherine wants .
Speaking toEW , Black Mirrorcreator Charlie Brooker said that the sequence was revolutionise by two things : a sitcom he wrote about a punk rocker dance band who die in 1977 and miraculously return in the future to find that their handler has been selling them out ; and the real - life phenomenon of " revive " dead artists like Amy Winehouse and Prince to make more money off their image . Brooker note that these are often people who die out in tragical fate or were plagued by imprint and substance misuse in their actual life - something that their artificial creations would never settle prey to .
However , Ashley ’s human race is exactly what enables her to write the medicine that her devotee love , and that ’s the one thing that Catherine ca n’t misrepresent . Instead , she takes the raw material of song from Ashley ’s brain and changes it to make it more marketable - something that music producer often do . Miley Cyrus is perfect for the part since she start asDisney ’s papa princessHannah Montana , and then went through a period of making her euphony and image more sexual and belligerent in a room that some institute abrasive . As is so often true ofBlack Mirror , " Rachel , Jack and Ashley Too " has a dose of reality in its fiction .
