'Press' Finale Recap: "Resonance"

After weeks of low-key championing Duncan Allen's POV, Press opens with what seems like a hard right turn in the finale. Holly Evans is on the warpath to take him down, while the man himself is having a terrible day, ruining his two-hour supervised visit with his son, Fred, by spending it arguing with his ex-wife-to-be. When he leaves, the cab that picks him up is laden with ads for "The New Free The Herald."

After mostly forgetting about the only exciting plotline, The New Free The Herald has finally chased back down their Resonance lead from the premiere episode, Jon Brooks (Tom Bell). He seems to have zero problems with talking to reporters on camera now, considering all the bizarre sturm and drang in parking lots from earlier. Unfortunately, those who were hoping for something super juicy are going to be disappointed. Press' big reveal on the "Resonance" scandal is nothing more than the reality of the "surveillance society" that is the U.K. and has been in place since 2006, with CCTVs everywhere and Big Brother always watching. "Resonance" is just that the Prime Minister signed off on bringing it a little closer to home, with a program that turns all your technology into listening devices. Brooks dramatically tells the camera laptop cameras can watch you (always have been), Alexa devices can hear you (and are listening now), and now your phones and smart TVs are too, looking for keywords. The government's had the program in place for months and MI-5 are already using it on thousands of people at a time, monitoring for terrorist attacks.

Amina, for one, is shocked: Your TV can monitor your home? Actually, it's been able to do that for a while now. The Washington Post had a piece on it recently. Too bad Amina doesn't read the papers.