The Good Girl

A tight, funny, and engaging sci-fi script with great performances from Larson and Perron. Poses some fascinating questions on both the age-old topic of prostitution and the nascent issues surrounding AI sentience and service. Expertly paced and performed. ... full review

Anjali (Danielle Larson) has a safe, government-issued job with limited upward mobility. Ven (Alejandro Parron) is blue-collar maintenance man with a yearning for better things. In this dystopian future, however, repairing and caring for a sex robot has its limitations. These sexual surrogates have become necessary after an unnamed disease swept thorough the population, leaving millions of dead. Human interactions and sexual activity are highly restricted, hence the creation of these safe and clean robots. During a repair, Ven finds the robot exhibiting unusual and illegal human-like behavior. Programmed to please, the sexbot has lately developed an unusual software glitch: a post-coital propensity for crying. Which, it turns out, the cl... full review

The Good Girl is a fantastic show set in a not-too-distant future that would have made Rod Serling or Isaac Asimov proud... full review

Westword/Ex Machina Love story with BLOOD... full review