Literally the only thing I knew was that I received an alert through my phone that there was a new BM on Netflix. Didn’t see a trailer or read anything else online.
Ate an edible at the start and finished it 30 minutes ago. I’m in my own mind right now. How the hell did they make this episode? How many people wrote it and for how long? How many iterations of the episode are there? Some poor intern at complex is going to spend his whole spring semester diagraming it all.
Finally getting around to this show and I’m an idiot for holding off for so long. Accidentally watched the first three episodes of season four(not that it matters), but went back around and am halfway through season 2. Wonderful television.
I really liked it. I thought two of the endings were freaking awesome Spoiler The one where he goes with his mom and then dies in present day. Especially when you consider the stuffed animal was in his dad's drawer, thus his dad is how his mom ended up being slowed down that day + died, since he couldn't find it. Also the Netflix ending made me lol. Look forward to seeing what type of stuff comes from this in the future.
I don’t disagree but I think it’s only 3 bc of the choose your own adventure they did. In which case give me 3 episodes instead of that shit.
I watched all 3 today. Miley one and the middle episode were just ok. The one with Anthony Mackie was pretty out there, although I feel like the social commentary on that one is going to go over a lot of heads.
It's already started on twitter. I honestly think this is the future for VR gameplay. Which is a slippery slope.
Spoiler IMO I think the commentary about getting lost in VR is the overt one that many will pick up on. The unintended consequences of technology in our daily lives has been a running theme for all of Black Mirror I think the more subtle commentary is on sexuality ect. I still dont know if I have solidified my thoughts on what it all means, which imo is the genious of an episode like this. I feel like there's a million interpretations depending on your POV and how aware you are of everything ect. What surprised me was when they met after the dinner and smooched - they they had no chemistry. I thought for sure they were just going to submit to their feelings about each other. Then again when they started fighting. I think thats the interesting commentary about sexuality. They're not gay, irl anyway, but only have chemistry in VR? I think that's kind of a commentary on non binary sexuality. There arent really firm definitions. ect. Then you get the end w some sort of arrangement where the guys get to bone once a month while the wife gets to go be a single girl ect. I think the part about sexuality is going to go over a lot of people's heads. Especaiily the conservative types anyway - cool episode that's pretty thought provoking imo. The other two were pretty straight forward. Entertaining, but not as thought provoking.
Spoiler My take is a bit different. The reason why I didn't like it is the whole thing seemed to be a theme of finding your sexual identity which I thought was a solid theme. But when they kissed and didn't like it only to proceed into the future of just once a year, it fell back on what Karl said about "nothing is as good". So the theme that I took away from it is people trying to find the best high/orgasm they could. Which can be a fine theme, but when it is set up for 90% to be the first theme, it then seems to just be about sex. Which again, I get. There are tons of fetishes, deviancies, etc that cause people to do certain things sexually whether it's a certain person, certain position, dom/sub, role-play, furry, whatever. I just feel like a story that would have that as its theme could have a different and better story that explores it instead of setting you up for the former.
As a whole, I did not care for these eps at all. They seemed way too obvious/in your face and way too present day. Most of the series has felt somewhat current but also maybe 7-10years ahead of current tech to where you could see the warning story they were trying to get across, as opposed to this season where everything felt 2019 and the stories were just really stories and not really cautionary tales.
This podcast has the show creators interviewed. Pretty interesting to hear their POV and tidbits about the episodes. Also for someone that tells such dark stories the guy is pretty cheerful. Idk what o was expecting but threw me for a loop. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-watch/id1111739567?i=1000440823101
I thought the Anthony Mackie one was the best, the other two weren’t bad, but below average for Black Mirror. Big waste of an amazing actor in Andrew Scott on another social media episode, and lmao at pairing him with fuckin Topher.
I liked the gay one, seems very innovative and well put together. Obviously tough to reinvent the wheel
First one was pretty good, 2nd was solid meh, 3rd not that good. Without thinking too hard about it - these would probably be in the bottom 5 overall of all black mirror.
You can throw away the Miley one. I actually liked the second episode, mostly because of Moriarty's acting. I liked the blue balls ending too. We've been watching this tense human drama unfold, we all want to know what happened, instead we get to see everyone else learn what happened through them just glancing at a phone notification and saying "meh".
Started the Miley episode.... Spoiler First half of the episode, I looked past the fact that it's a narrative that has been used 1 million times (lonely, sometimes grieving person finds friendship with AI) -- a narrative they've used exactly in the past. I also was willing to look past the fact that they were literally taking pages from the movie Birdman's book. Despite those things, I was still happy with the way the episode was going. Then I sat through and watched some of the laziest story telling I've ever witnessed. Manager involved in a conspiracy with multiple people going full evil villain? Murder? Come one, surely the writers can be a bit more clever than that. After that, they lost me completely -- not to mention, the remainder of the episode was completely predictable. TL;DR
Liked the first episode. Spoiler although maybe it's because I like video games and have gay tendencies
Watched the first two episodes. Will watch the third one tonight My problem with them isn't that they're bad, it's that they're below the standard of past seasons. If they were two out of like 10 episodes that'd be different but when you only drop three they better be really good. The first was just okay with too many half baked ideas. The second was very one note, with not ENOUGH ideas.
Started looking at lists ranking every episode and now I think I have to go back and rewatch the entire series. Wish there was something similar out there. Electric Dreams was the closest I’ve found but wasn’t nearly as good.
Just saw the Miley Cyrus episode and I found it quite haunting. Also liked that it had a happy ending for once. Good BM episode IMO
San Junipero & Hang the DJ remain my favorites, with USS Callister, Be Right Back, and maybe Nosedive rounding out my top five.
White Christmas - the amount of time they were discussing gave me anxiety Shut up and Dance - creepy AF National Anthem (S1, Ep1) - really set the tone for the whole series
Those are all favs of mine too except I don't think I've seen Hang the DJ yet. I like to skip around and ration these things out