"The Outer Limits" The Hunt (TV Episode 1998) ⭐ 7.5 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror (original) (raw)
Episode aired Jan 30, 1998
45m
Since the hunting of animals is illegal, people pay to hunt outdated androids who can not fight back due to a chip which prevents them from causing harm to humans. However, the androids disc... Read allSince the hunting of animals is illegal, people pay to hunt outdated androids who can not fight back due to a chip which prevents them from causing harm to humans. However, the androids discover how to turn these chips off.Since the hunting of animals is illegal, people pay to hunt outdated androids who can not fight back due to a chip which prevents them from causing harm to humans. However, the androids discover how to turn these chips off.
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LITTLE ORIGINAL BUT EFFECTIVE STORY
We are in the future, the hunting of animals is absolutely prohibited, but instead the hunting of robots that are already obsolete is practiced. This type of argument about human hunts, in this case it is about robots, is not very original and repeated, but here the development is correct, which makes it still an entertaining show. The argument shows us the human side of the robots and the efforts they make to survive and the perverse and insensitive side of the hunters, the story takes an unexpected turn when the son of one of the hunters, who was precisely the one that showed his most human side and his disagreement with the sad persecution that his father was carrying out.
Excellent cast elevates average story
With any other actors this could have just been an average episode. This really showed me how great actors can elevate an average story and dialogue. What a great episode to my surprise, but the acting was just superb. Can't say any more without spoilers...
I enjoyed this effort. It concerns a situation where the environmentalists and liberals have put a stop to hunting. It seems that most of the endangered species have been decimated anyway. A foursome of hunters is in pursuit of a different kind of prey. They are androids that have outlived their usefulness. They are sent out, literally with targets on their backs. The hunters slaughter them. There isn't any skin in the game because the androids have been programmed not to attack humans. One android who has a gimpy leg is killed immediately. The others flee. Meanwhile, there is trouble in paradise. There is great conflict among those in the hunting party. The young man finds the whole thing deplorable while his hunter father and his father's brother encourage him to become a man. When given the opportunity to kill, he shoots over the head of the defenseless female android. There is also a third man who is acting as a guide. As the prey hole up in a cabin for the night, they discover a set of rolled up schematics of their own architecture. It was deliberately left there by the father of the hunting group. He wants a real hunt. The androids are skilled enough to change the circuit that makes them defenseless. One of the androids is interesting. He reads "Paradise Lost" and devoured other great works of literature in the past. He is an obstacle for a time because he is a pacifist and feels despite their foibles, humans are basically admirable creatures. This is a more complex episode than some and has some tragic events interwoven. There are significant issues dealing with sentience and they are well delivered.
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