Down The Rabbit Hole

This episode deals with how man-made technology could undo millions of years of evolutionary optimizations when it comes to memory. There is a reason why the past often seems golden. Our mind tends to smooth out the rough edges of our past. What may seem to be an ageing mechanism wherein we slowly lose our memory retention maybe a good thing for us. Maybe an eidetic memory is so rare because it is a curse. If you don't forget the awful, how would you move on and yet make something good of your life? The famous Russian Solomon Shereshevsky who had an incredible memory later struggled to forget things! The protagonist Liam is a lawyer who has had a difficult day at work. He returns home to a party in which he suspects something. His misgivings take a darker hue when his wife keeps avoiding his casual questions about a guy from the 'old gang'. The technology device which lets you record every memory of you is taken ample help of to probe more into the evidence.  Double-edged ...

There is a profound sense of sadness which pervades this episode. The dialogue is scintillating in some scenes, the story is not preachy, and it touches on a host of contemporary and old issues. 'Either... or...' The characters are given two choices at many instances in the story. Either you go back to the back-breaking bike or you lose your own identity and become part of the enterprise. The episode is more about the effects of centralization or monopolization on our society, With a monopoly, there are greater ways of control on your life. Abi is only a 'good' singer and since all slots for singing were taken she wouldn't make it as a singer. Who decides the number of seats? The characters are forced to watch disgusting adverts if they cannot pay to skip them, even if they have to go through mental trauma doing it. This is opposite of a free market democracy which emphasizes more choices and organic development of solutions to existing problems. In a m...