superstormnora 's review for:

Hum by Helen Phillips

4.5

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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It’s an episode of black mirror. May loses her job and is forced to do an experimental procedure on her face, making it slightly different. Using the money she made, she takes her family to the botanical garden- the only “natural area” left in the city where they can camp and enjoy trees, grass and waterfalls. May and her husband fall asleep and lose their kids at a waterfall for over an hour but are able to get the kids back with the help of a robot assistant- the robots are the “Hum”s. Since everything is recorded, mays mistake of losing her kids backfires and a Hum comes to their home with suspicious motives to try and resolve the investigation into May due to her “negligence”