The Pod Generation is a crazy concept that came from the mind of director/writer Sophie Barthes. In this movie, we will catch a glimpse of a future where women no longer become mothers through pregnancy. Currently, with the available technology, affluent women choose surrogacy instead of getting pregnant due to career considerations. They hire less privileged women to act as surrogates. However, surrogacy has sparked debates and controversies due to the exploitation faced by many of these paid surrogates. But in the future depicted in this movie, women no longer rely on surrogates, eliminating the need for such arrangements. This sci fi movie that felt like a Black Mirror episode stars Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
The Pod Generation Official trailer
A company called Pegazus produces a device called capsule pods. They are egg-like devices that injected the father’s sperm and the mother’s eggs. The parents must carry these capsules wherever they go because the baby inside the pod needed the parent’s attention. Rachel Novy (Emilia Clarke) has been married to her husband Alvy (Chiwetel Ejiofor) for years. Both of them are part of the workforce so they have no time for kids. Rachel experiences having dreams at night and her online ai assistant refuses to interpret her dreams.

The majority of people born in the pod generation do not have dreams at night. It seems like all people are in some kind of birth control and they needed to ask for permission to get a baby. Once they got approved their DNA will be combined in the capsules and they will take care of it until it hatches. In the beginning, Rachel had a hard time convincing her husband to have a baby. Then months later, roles reverse as Alvy is now the one excited for the baby. Meanwhile, Rachel is mentally struggling because she doesn’t have an emotional attachment to the egg.


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