![]() ![]() If there’s anything Rachel’s not doing, it’s riding high and achieving goals. ![]() The juxtaposition between Ashley O’s peppy song and dance and Rachel’s expression as she walks down the hallway in her high school, alone, looking like a mouse who’s wandered into a cat cafe, is brutally comical. ![]() She is in her own world, listening to Ashley O’s you-go-girl self-empowerment lyrics: Rachel (Angourie Rice) sits alone at a table in her high school’s cafeteria, watching a music video from pop star Ashley O (Cyrus). “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too” (written by series creator Charlie Brooker and directed by Anne Sewitsky) starts out like a teen movie. “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too” is about a lonely girl and the musician she idolizes And that can be catastrophic to everyone’s mental health - especially when those people are already vulnerable. But taken to an extreme, this performative positivity can be perversely dehumanizing. Today’s imperative of “spreading positivity,” particularly among pop musicians and social media celebrities who interact with young people (and especially teenage girls), is the focus here. And the way we package and interact with celebrities today is just a glimpse of that future. The episode knows that in the very near future, all sorts of factors will lead us into dystopia. The answers to these questions come with a distinctly 2019 bent. “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too” revisits many favorite Black Mirror themes (brain enhancement, artificial intelligence, memory storage, drugs), but it’s primarily about two questions: What images are celebrities allowed to project? And what do their fans receive in return? She obviously knows being a celebrity is all about packaging and branding, and she clearly wants to control her own terms. ![]() It makes sense that Miley Cyrus stars in the third episode of Black Mirror’s fifth season, “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too.” The Disney star turned pop star has been reinventing herself for years, with varying levels of success. This article is a recap of Black Mirror ’s season five episode “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too.” It contains spoilers and discussion regarding the episode’s plot. ![]()
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