Watch BBC2 tonight_____9.50pm__"VIRTUAL ADULTERY AND CYBERSPACE LOVE"____

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They were on TV This Morning

Their virtual love became RL love

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Documentary
Wonderland Wednesday 30 January
9:50pm - 10:30pm
BBC2
3/8
This is a curious and unsettling glimpse of the future. Film-maker Fergus O'Brien tells the stories of couples who have begun relationships in Second Life, the online world where people create "avatars" (moveable 3-D icons) of themselves and embark on "virtual" extramarital affairs. Carolyn was a depressed American housewife who reinvented herself as a sexy siren in Second Life, hooked up (digitally) with a British man called Eliot, and drifted away from her husband and children. "It was like being reborn," she says, and later: "Most people wouldn't dare to open that Pandora's box." Except, this is a box you dive into, full of addictive pleasures - of tropical resorts and restaurants where dolphins leap through fountains. The power of the film comes from the contrast between those highsheen fantasy landscapes and the real world of, say, a housing estate in Nuneaton. It leaves us with plenty to think about.

RT reviewer - David Butcher
VIDEO Plus+: 963837
Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-described

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[southeastastra]

weird isn't it. i had a few goes on second life, i got propositioned (put nicely) as soon as i got there.

[southeastastra]

seemed like a complete waste of their time. quite sad really.

[chuzzlewit]

Lawd what a load of freaks.

That wedding! Farkin ell.