TV Review Electric Dreams Autofac

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Spoiler alerts After we are all dead and gone, Amazon will still be running its services, and drone deliveries. That seem to be the message here as a handful of survivors of World War Three find themselves bombarded with useless mostly unopened packages from a relentless automated production plant, keeping them pinned down as a captive market and preventing hem fulfilling dream of self-sufficiency. After negotiations with company spokes-droid, (beautifully played by Janelle Monae), the humans abduct and incapacitate her rather than negotiating further, and use her to force their way into the autofac plant, only to discover they are androids too, though the lady leading the rebels has already figured it out. Typical Philip K Dick material - Androids so human they self-harm, wage civil war and find themselves unable to break free of rampant consumerism – a great premise, so this could have been the best episode of the series, so why was it so painfully dull? Arthur Chappell