An ensuing car chase is full of high energy and comedy but feels wholly unnecessary. The teen sisters undertake a heist, of sorts, to help the real Ashley escape her coma, but the entire sequence falls flat. When Ashley Too loses her public persona filter, the humour of the situation increases and the emotional weight of the story quickly dissipates. This sequence is ripe with comedy, but it comes with its own set of problems. Months after the talent show debacle and news of Ashley O’s coma, Rachel’s Ashley Too doll malfunctions and requires a reboot… after which Ashley O’s entire personality is unlocked and the comatose singer’s essentially replicated in tiny robot form. How do these two storylines collide? Well, it’s complicated. When Ashley confronts Catherine about her mistreatment, the ice-cold businesswoman puts her niece in an induced coma, in order to keep the money rolling in by mining her brain for new songs. Her manager and aunt, Catherine (Susan Pourfar), treats her like a product instead of a young woman with undoubted talent. While all this is happening, Ashley O’s struggling with her own problems. Ashley Too encourages Rachel to dance to one of Ashley O’s hits for a school talent show, but the performance doesn’t go well and only leads to public humiliation. doll programmed with her personality, aptly named ‘Ashley Too’, so Rachel gets one as a 15th birthday gift from her father, much to the annoyance of her older sister Jack (Madison Davenport). Then Ashley announces the release of an A.I. “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too” introduces us to Rachel (Angourie Rice), a lonely teenager who cuts herself off from her classmates because she’s constantly listening to pop idol Ashley O (Miley Cyrus). What do two sisters with opposing views on music, the world’s biggest pop star, and an A.I doll have to do with each other? As it turns out, Black Mirror doesn’t have an answer for that in its half-baked series 5 finale.
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