I think it would have been stronger with another step to the ending. I think that the coder girl shoulda gone back to rescue him in real life. The story didn't say that that didn't happen, but I woulda liked to see it. I mean slow matt damon was a bastard but not a completely evil SOB. There was a redemption story that was missed

I can't tell if the writers' intentionally set it up to be sorta ambiguous, but I wonder what the fate is of Real-Nanette. Meth Damon is going to probably die stuck in the game at his desk (the office just went on a 10 day holiday and he apparently has no social life), and if the police investigate they'll probably figure out she broke into his house and was maybe the last to see him alive. Real-Nanette told at least two people at her work that she took the job specifically because she was fascinated with Daly's code. Beyond that, I think her nudes are gonna be on his internet network (that's how Clone-Nanette got them to her phone right?) and that could certainly be seen as some kind of motive.

Then there is the other thing. Let's say the police get involved and figure out the whole story. Is the fate of DNA-loaded AI clones going to be something people even care about? I feel like the fact that the AI characters aren't real humans is kind of glossed over when people talk about the episode. It seemed like there was an ethical question being proposed there (e,g,
exactly HOW bad is what Daly was doing, do AI loaded with someones' DNA have more rights than regular AI, etc.)

Hang the DJ

I liked a lot of it - the ever-increasing hole Mia finds herself in, but jesus, I can't buy the fact the a ****ing guinea pig could have a memory that would be legally binding in a court of law.

I liked it up until the very end. I don't understand - was the whole thing just a simulation that the people at the end don't know about? So this app in the "real world" knows these two strangers are perfect for each other without them actually having met?

I'm not buying it.

The girl is fantastic, though. She should be a star.

For all that the episode sucked - the guinea pig thing was a throw away at the end of the episode + the police would use facial recognition software to identify Mia as a suspect. They'd then match the tread marks of her car to the snow outside Shazia's house, find Shazia's husband's blood splatter over Mia's clothes, find Shazia's DNA in Mia's home (+ where is Shazia's body)? It's not like the guinea pig's memory would form the entire basis of the prosecution's case.

The guinea pig's memory could give police just cause to use the Recaller on Mia.

That's exactly it; right now, dating sites use algorithms to try to match you with your best partner. This is the extension of that - these two strangers have entered whatever it is in their dating app, and rather than a dry number crunch, it runs 1000 simulations of their relationship to determine their match potential. I've seen tons of comments that they are trying to rip off San Junipero, but it's really not the same thing, other than the idea that technology sometimes leads to good results instead of always ending up with everyone dead.