Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021) / Shudder Pick'ems

 I really thought the start was interesting with this grieving husband still stuck in this morass because of his lost wife, working a really mind-numbing tape-to-disc archivist job at night, discovering an "interruption" of a broadcast, the signal breaking the law. The archivist eventually ties the signal to his wife and goes on the hunt for who (or those) responsible for the intrusion. Eventually a young woman "looking to gain control" by following the archivist, sort of herself outcast and needing something to sink her teeth into, inserts herself into James' obsession. But do either of them really want to go too far down the rabbit hole?

The female android sitcom from the 80s, that this signal interrupts, leaves James spellbound...he's led eventually on quite a pursuit; Alice emerges in his life as help, until she sort of exits the picture. Alice's role in this left me rather frustrated because she just sort of leaves the film. And even if James locates the mystery person behind the intrusion, I was left rather meh, I guess. The weird characters also involved in either looking for the guy or being somewhat responsible for the intrusion sort of either try to deter James or confuse him, but he's nonetheless inspired to get the information he so desires. I really found the signal part quite fascinating even if I just wasn't wowed by the results by film's end.