Why not just show little clues that his father changed and make the boy wonder, at least for a while? TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Overall, Safe And Sound was a well-acted, well-directed sci-fi thriller with sadly never-more-apt themes, but perhaps lacking in the complexity their treatment deserved. After a day at home, things get strange. It makes for a pacey and well-directed hour of entertainment, but ultimately a shallow one. Charlie must make difficult decisions to protect his mother and the human race, as he is among the first to realize that humans are being replaced by dangerous monsters. Also, the music was badass. Watch Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams - Season 1, Episode 10 - The Father Thing: A young boy discovers that his father Matthew has been replaced by an alien, and he's not the only one. Having spiralled ambitiously out of the simplicity of PKD’s story, Safe And Sound ended up a little unanchored. Okay, the weird thing about Amazon for this US viewer is that even though the episodes are numbered differently from the Channel 4 order, the auto play has been serving the episodes up to me in the Channel 4 order. The Father Thing is kinda dated and lame plot-wise, but I feel the execution was superb. Join 6,437 readers in helping fund MetaFilter. .cls-2{mix-blend-mode:screen}.cls-3{fill:none;stroke:red;stroke-miterlimit:10;stroke-width:4px}.cls-4{fill:red}, The penultimate Electric Dreams episode builds a detailed sci-fi world, but around oversimplified themes. Harder still is the idea of a mass conspiracy between government and big tech cooked up to make the populace happy little consumers. Thanks to that level of world-building, Safe And Sound is one of the few Electric Dreams episodes that could work as the first instalment in a continuing story. At first, only the child sees the difference and has to recruit other children to help him reveal the truth. The students there (who dress like The Jetsons, unlike Foster and her mother’s loose, organic hair and clothes), learn from gamified, hologram-driven tech that looks and feels like the oft-discussed classroom of the future. A page for describing Recap: Philip K Dicks Electric Dreams S 1 E 10 The Father Thing. A lot of okay episodes of Electric Dreams were elevated to good in the execution. If they were going to slow the pace, they should have put more effort into making it creepy and scary. January 19, 2018 8:33 AM - Season 1, Episode 10 -. Kids from non-conformist backgrounds often want to assimilate rather than rebel against the same things as their parents. The generally terrific Maura Tierney too, does what she can with a limited rant-exposition role as Foster’s politician mother, who spends almost all of the episode raging against the machine (nice Sarah Connor sunglasses, by the way). (Themes also explored by recent Black Mirror episode Arkangel) It’s only after that point, when Foster is groomed as a weapon of the state that the story’s wheels, if not fall off then at least get a little wobbly. Foster, You’re Dead, written in 1955, is a sad, fiercely anti-consumerist story set against the backdrop of the Cold War. In Safe And Sound, writers Kalen Egan and Travis Sentell have taken the same central theme but exploded the tight focus of PKD’s original (about a schoolboy who desperately covets a high-tech nuclear bomb shelter his family can’t afford) to build an entire future world, complete with an America that’s not only figuratively but literally divided along a ‘Rift’, and Big Tech corporations selling whizzy new gadgets. It was very creepy, and straight-up disturbing in a couple of scenes. might be an alien. Things are revealed quickly and then it's done. The episode’s initial ideas are apposite and well-handled too: at what point does tech-driven ‘safety’ for our kids cross over into oppression? “Impossible Planet” is as emotional and ethereal as it gets. But in the last few years, cries of ‘fake news!’ and a blanket-refusal to believe any corner of the media over conspiracy theories feels as though it could be playing into some dangerous hands. this almost felt like a backdoor pilot. I know that PKDs stories have been done and redone countless times, but I really don't think adapting. Phillip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams Recap: Daddy Issues by Film Crit Hulk for Vulture On the surface, “Father Thing” seems headed for a somewhat Disney-esque father-son story, but then takes a quick turn toward the pulp and pomp of an Amblin-lite adventure wherein a young boy named Charlie (Jack Gore) thinks his dad (Greg Kinnear!) That complexity and detail, however, isn’t quite matched by Safe And Sound’s simplistic take on its subject matter – terrorism, fake news and ‘false flag’ attacks. As Foster, she’s endearingly charmed by her new life and painfully distressed as it starts to unravel. Forget sex, it teaches, fear is what really sells. So I did start with “The Hood Maker” and end with “The Father-Thing,” even though Amazon’s order looks preferable. Sign-up deadline Oct 28 for Mefi's annual secret Gift Swap! Healthy scepticism about what we’re shown on TV or told by companies and politicians with vested interests is exactly that – healthy. One night, while camping out, they see glowing orbs slowly falling from the sky, which the radio news reports are meteoroids. FanFare is a pop culture discussion site for TV, movies, podcasts, and books. Den of Geek So says the sceptical father of young Mike Foster in Philip K. Dick’s story by which this Electric Dreams episode is inspired. Safe And Sound turns complex topics (radicalisation, the reach of state-sponsored surveillance tech and reality-monopolising media) into thriller fodder. Electric Dreams (TV Series) The Father Thing (2018) Plot. So far, so recognisable. much more mundane yet much more disturbing, taking all the replacees' bodies to the dump, from the point of view of a frantically barking dog, seeing his dad's soul being horrifically consumed by his duplicate, Philip K Dicks Electric Dreams S 1 E 6 Human Is, Philip K Dicks Electric Dreams S 1 E 8 Autofac. Showing all 1 items Jump to: Summaries (1) Summaries. Create a sense of insecurity.” So says the sceptical father of young Mike Foster in Philip K. Dick’s story by which this Electric Dreams episode is inspired. When reading the story, you are not exactly sure how to interpret what happened, if the boy really saw what he thought he saw, which gives a little more mystery and suspense to the story. “They always said the way to sell things was to create anxiety in people. The world is under attack from aliens. Lead Annalise Basso does a great job carrying most of the story and all of its emotion on her shoulders. This was a slight story that still managed to lose something in the retelling. @Louisa_Mellor, Louisa Mellor is the Den of Geek UK TV Editor. Good news, the episode still suitably carries that creepy factor. Spoilers ahead…. Fittingly, the episode starts with a Peter Gabriel song about a troubled parent-daughter relationship, and there’s plenty that rings true about Foster and her mother’s opposing approaches to life in the city. The series consists of ten standalone 50-minute episodes based on Dick's work, written by British and American writers. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/PhilipKDicksElectricDreamsS1E10TheFatherThing. Is safety worth voluntarily giving up freedoms for? She has written about TV, film and books for Den of Geek since 2010, and for…, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams Release Date, Trailer, Cast, & More, Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams: UK return date confirmed, Timothy Spall to Star in Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 2 Review: Impossible Planet, How Hunt A Killer Expands the Blair Witch Universe with New Horror Game, Topps' Fright Flicks Cards: Where Horror and Comedy Collide, Best Horror Movies on Netflix: Scariest Films to Stream, Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? As a lonely teenager, fitting in can seem more important than holding up principles. A recap of ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’ season 1 episode 8 starring Jack Reynor, Benedict Wong, and Geraldine Chaplin. From Talk Soup to Auto Focus, I've always thought highly of Kinnear, and he does not disappoint in this episode. Any MetaFilter member can post a thread about a piece of media for other members to discuss. As mentioned above, the pacing really suffered from the adaptation. All posts copyright their original authors. If this represents the floor for Electric Dreams, then I'd be happy to keep watching for years. If this were to be expanded into a continuing story, it’d be best suited to a Hunger Games-style dystopian tale of a teenage girl dismantling the insidious Big Tech machine inside which she and her generation is trapped. The Essential DanMachi Moments, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 9 Review: Safe And Sound. “They’re scaring us to keep the wheels going,” Mike’s dad yells in the same story, “they don’t want another depression.”. You are not logged in, either login or create an account to post comments. But in the TV version, you see it "with your own eyes" and quite early on, so there is little mystery or suspense. The complexity and detail put into features like the Dex (wearable tracking tech with multiple applications) grounds viewers in territory that’s perfect sci-fi: familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.
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