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Evaluating the 2 plot twists of high maintenance

 The first plot twist of involves a 'human like' woman and her 'husband' eating dinner on their anniversary, having blunt and dead conversation as well as acting very emotionless. The plot twist is quite surprising, in which the fact that the husband is a robot. However this is quiet surprising because the audience is not expecting this as the first scene starts with two people that look like they could be together, slowly getting into an argument, and as the fact that the audience are focused on the argument, we don't really realise the certain clues that he is a robot, and therefore it is a surprise.

The second plot twist may seem less surprising as people may have seen it coming, this twist involves the woman ordering a new robot she customised herself and it shows the same situation as the first scene happening again, and this is when you realise that actually she may be a robot, and the twist is the fat that the new robot she ordered reversed the roles with what she done to the 1st robot and switches her power off.

However this first plot twist does not seem very logical in the fact that although he was a robot, it would make no sense to the fact that she is sitting down eating with a robot acting like it is her husband and then starting an argument with him. It also is not logical in the fact that it defies the actual idea of a robot where we  are set to think that a robot should be there to serve and help out the owner with tasks.


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