During one of her remote hangouts with her best friend Rebecca (Sofia Boutella) — with whom she “meets” at a bar in a digital 3D space — Carol learns of a wellness process known as DreamQuil, which claims to alter women’s moods and fix their problems by making them re-live their deepest traumas. Despite Carol’s fears of replacement — and her having to face the idea that feminine perfection means never failing or complaining as a wife, mother, or woman in the (remote) workplace — the movie seldom evolves beyond the surface appearance of these conceptual problems. That Carol fears and envies Carol 2 (who Banks plays with exaggerated, steely aplomb) is a great starting point that goes nowhere with any urgency, as the soap opera sensibilities soon congeal into light situational comedy, with not only thematic resets to the status quo, but at one point, quite a literal reset too, courtesy of some futuristic tech.
Author: Siddhant Adlakha
Published at: 2026-03-16 23:00:57
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