What if, just 15 years from now, you could design a robot partner tailored to your own perfect specifications? The new sci-fi thriller Companion ponders just that, taking what’s already our current reality—text exchanges with an AI boyfriend or girlfriend—to a dystopian extreme.
The film, written and directed by Drew Hancock, follows a human and robot couple’s weekend away turned disastrous. Jack Quaid’s character Josh has designed his dream girl in his “companion” Iris, played by Yellowjackets breakout Sophie Thatcher. She’s doting, happy-go-lucky, subservient, and pulled straight from the Stepford Wives—dressed modestly in A-lines, hair flawlessly coiffed. But as Iris comes to grips with her not-so-real reality in the film, it exposes Josh’s unrealistic expectations of women and his controlling nature.
