Crazy Diamond

Episode aired Jan 12, 2018
TV-MA
48m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

3.4K

YOUR RATING

Steve Buscemi and Julia Davis in Electric Dreams (2017)

Drama Sci-Fi

Ed Morris, an average man, is approached by a gorgeous synthetic woman with an illegal plan that could change his life completely. A smitten Ed decides to help, and then his world really beg... Read allEd Morris, an average man, is approached by a gorgeous synthetic woman with an illegal plan that could change his life completely. A smitten Ed decides to help, and then his world really begins to crumble.Ed Morris, an average man, is approached by a gorgeous synthetic woman with an illegal plan that could change his life completely. A smitten Ed decides to help, and then his world really begins to crumble.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

3.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Parts of the filming took place at McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey. Some of the extras are actually McLaren employees.

Goofs
When Steve Buscemi's character is injecting Jill with the QC, the gun woman is wearing a striking green jacket. When Jill shoot her she has a clearly different (blue) jacket. Moreover the guns change from green painted revolvers to unpainted automatic guns.

Soundtracks
Octopus
Written by Syd Barrett
Performed by Robyn Hitchcock

User reviews32

Featured review

6/10

Crazy Diamond

This episode isn't uniformly great, but it has all of the interesting angles and moral dilemmas that populate the best of Dick's stories. Steve Buscemi is perfect as Ed, a shabby man with a good heart who nevertheless keeps making bad decisions. Sidse Babett Knudsen (Westworld) is engaging in the femme fatale role of Jill, tempting Ed less with her sexuality and more with her cunning insight into his prosaic dreams. There are a lot of fascinating ideas that percolate just under the surface, such as why the world needs replicants or DNA spliced humans and why everything seems like it is running down into ruin. Unfortunately, they remain window dressing, but the story itself is clever and thoughtful.