Beyond the Sea

The acting is great, especially by Aaron Paul.

The overall plot is interesting and could have been great, but I feel that the writers wanted a final twist so bad that they wrote this ending despite the fact that it's absolutely unsatisfying and makes no sense for David's character.

Very disappointing, something more predictable but more in line with what we had seen of David's character up until the ending would have been better.

Sometimes predictability is good, so long as it's not 100% obvious. But this really looks like they went out of their way *only* for the sake of making it end in a way that most wouldn't expect up until a minute before it happened.

And why would most not expect it?

Because it does not make much sense.

It's like having a "whodunnit" end with the culprit being a character that only comes up at the very end of the story: disappointing.

This was a very good episode. I won't give it a 10 because 10 is perfect and this doesn't quite reach that. It deserves an 8.5. All three of the main actors were excellent. Some reviewers are complaining because it is "predictable". Admittedly, after Lana's solution to the issue after the "unimaginable tragedy" I saw the general place this was going. But I did not see the final results. And the writing and acting to get to that point were great. At all points in the process, what happened made sense.

I largely wrote this review to refute others who wrote bad reviews because of a "plot hole" that they do not realize does not exist. These reviewers were not paying attention and/or were not thinking.

(Now I become a little geeky. There are no real spoilers here. The specifics I give are either from early in the episode, or my own calculations of reality instead of things mentioned in the episode.)

These reviewers ask why they did not send Replicas to the space station, instead of sending humans, since the Replicas could do what the humans do. This is explained early on: When fans greet David's (Josh Hartnell's character's) Replica outside the movie theater, he says central to the mission is "the human experience, the survival of the human body, of life".

Remember, this is set early in space exploration. If the Netflix description is correct, 1969, the first time humans were, in the real world, on the moon. At one point in this episode, it was said that Cliff and David were to be in space for 6 years. This mission was to determine the effects on humans of being in space for years. This information would be needed as humans went further into space. (Many of the things the humans did when they were awake were not the purpose of the mission. What they did when awake was just so the mission could continue.)

Replicas need the connection to the human: what the Replica does is controlled by the human. If you think about, Replicas could not go significantly further into space while the humans remained on Earth. Assuming the communication between humans and their Replicas is at the speed of light (it cannot be any faster) humans on the space station in geostationary orbit could communicate with Replicas on Earth in a fraction of a second. So what we saw in this episode is possible. But what about when we want to explore Mars? Even when Mars is at its closest to Earth, it would take a few minutes to communicate that distance at the speed of light. Humans on Earth controlling Replicas could not get much done with that kind of delay. When NASA's probes are landed on Mars, the probe runs a preprogrammed process, and the engineers at NASA wait for several minutes until they find out if it worked.

Beyond the Sea.

In an alternative 1969, two men on a perilous high-tech mission wrestle with the consequences of an unimaginable tragedy.

Another great episode of the 6th season that keeps surprising me considering the bad feedbacks it receives .

I bought it even before it was released, this episode staring Aaron Paul one of my favorite actor and his performance was absolutely outstanding, Besides it's classified as Sci-fi that I admire !

It was dark and hard to take sometimes, repetitive in others and that exactly what I felt about the first episode, they could've made it shorter in my opinion and it would've been a lot better.

I really don't have a problem with that ending, it fits for me.

Brilliant acting! Absolutely top tier, the talent alone carried this whole episode. I cannot say the same about the writers. Acting aside, the concept was intriguing and thought provoking. The acting and idea kept me closely engaged throughout til the end, I was waiting anxiously for the climax, and it just never came. Extremely disappointing, just lazy writing. This episode could've been a 10, but the ending actually irritated me. I needed more! I invested my time and the payoff was cut short. It could've went in so many different directions, but I'm disappointed. Bravo to the actors, shame on the writers.

For starters, Aaron Paul does phenomenally here. He hasn't always taken the best roles since Breaking Bad, but he truly gave his all for this performance and it shows. I don't have much to say about this episode other than it's a fantastic technological concept that's executed pretty good. I do think it is a little predictable, I felt like I knew where things were headed after the first significant event. Even so, some stuff happens in this episode that gets pretty dark, even for Black Mirror's sake, and I enjoy getting that chill of disturbance when watching this show. It's one of the better episodes.