This week we had to watch another black mirror episode called “Hated in the Nation”. Although this episode was a bit loner than the rest, it had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Im so into detective work and solving crimes and autopsies. This is like a huge investigation, except its so like in the future based with all sorts of amazing tech like the AI Bees that society added so that the pollination of flowers could still be done because the real bee population was dying out. Well little did everyone know that a terrorist would hack the bees and use them for his own personal murder game. Im not going to give every single detail of the episode but ill summarize it a little bit.

It starts when our main characters Karin and Blue who are both detectives are notified of a body of a famous journalist. Then they are notifies of another body of a famous person. Through a lot of detective work they find out that the only links between both bodies are that they had a single bee inside their head that was damaging their pain receptors inside the brain. This causes extreme pain and the victims will do anything to stop the pain…even kill themselves. Then the detectives fins out on more similarity between the victims. Both have had their names come up on twitter with it being the hashtag of #DEATHTO and then their names at the end.They find out if you have your name this list and are trending number one then you will die at a certain time. I won’t bore you guys with the details but it gets exciting when the detectives figure out that the system got hacked by a single terrorist. Eventually they figure out the terrorists plan, but there’s one flaw. When they turn the system to the bees off, The bees then target and kill every single person who tweeted out #DEATHTO. The episode ends in dramatic fashion as Blue faked her death and tracked the terrorist and on the day of the court case she catches him and sends Karin a text saying she got him. Im not sure if she killed him or brought him to justice, but that was one good episode.

My overall reaction to the episode is just WOW!!! It was so jam packed and right up my ally. It was so cool to see a very interesting investigation of a murder, but it was so like in the future based. It makes me think, well all of these episodes make me think about the technology of the future. But what if the bees did start dying out? What would be our solution for that? What substitute would we use. I was also curious as to hoe the bees died out in the episode, but I don’t think they ever mentioned it. This episode I\kind of gave me a criminal minds type of vibe which I absolutely love. The ending was honestly the best part though.

What substitute could we use if bees dies out in the future?

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