This is my 3000th post! 
Iris (Sophie Thatcher) is nervous about traveling with her boyfriend, Josh (Jack Quaid), for a weekend at his friend's "cabin", which is actually a huge lakeside house. And it doesn't really belong to Josh's friend, Kat (Megan Suri), but to her shady Russian boyfriend, Sergei (Rupert Friend, looking damn near unrecognizable). Things get worse when Sergei tries to sexually assault Iris and she has to kill him, but then she finds out that she's actually just Josh's fuckbot: a literal companion android, and that he's planning to shut her down and turn her over to the manufacturer. Suddenly, Iris is experiencing a whole new range of important internal directives, like self-preservation and righteous anger.
This might become my new litmus test for whether or not dudes are okay to date. With whom do you sympathize in this movie? There is a wrong answer and a right answer. Between this and The Menu, I've got my traps all set.
If you watched Ex Machina, and thought, yes, more, please, this is for you. Also, if you have ever dated a dude who treated you like an emotional support robot that they could fuck.
Ultimately, this is a feel-good movie about empowerment and liking who you are. It's currently streaming on HBO Max and I highly recommend it.
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