NEW Black Mirror series...
Discussion
ch37 said:
cobra kid said:
I'm totally new to this, having only started watching this weekend. I'm on the second episode in the second series. Excellent so far.
I'd fear for my mental health if I binged the earlier seasons! Needed a breather after a few of the episodes.Need to continue with the older ones.
The beauty of Black Mirror is you can watch them in any order really.
UTH said:
SoulGlo said:
Same! I think i checked out after the one with Rafe Spall and the snowy house.
Need to continue with the older ones.
The beauty of Black Mirror is you can watch them in any order really.
White Christmas I think that’s called? One of my all time favourites. Need to continue with the older ones.
The beauty of Black Mirror is you can watch them in any order really.
InitialDave said:
Durzel said:
I thought "Joan is Awful" was pretty crap, personally.
I have to try to avoid overanalysing things like that, though, otherwise plot points Starr to annoy me.She's fired for violation of her NDA, but she didn't tell anyone anything, she was being bugged/wiretapped by the app on her phone, her solicitor should've caught that.
Just watched ep 3 (Beyond The Sea), pretty decent, but felt like you could see the ending coming a mile off.
This series of Black Mirror didn't feel exactly like a Black Mirror set of episodes.
I appreciated the fun horror of Demon 79 and the drama of Beyond the Sea and Joan is Awful. I felt Mazey Day was a poor effort on a decent concept. Loch Henry was a great story told well, you just see it coming rather too soon.
None of these new episodes really hit me in the way the older episodes do, even on rewatches. White Bear can cave your moral standpoint in on itself and White Christmas is mindblowing with how it deals with consciousness, AI and other invasive tech. San Junipero was a beautiful story told through the lens of futuristic tech.
I'll still continue watching Black Mirror if they do more as I did enjoy series 6, I just hope they can hit on the thoughtful nature they more often used to.
I appreciated the fun horror of Demon 79 and the drama of Beyond the Sea and Joan is Awful. I felt Mazey Day was a poor effort on a decent concept. Loch Henry was a great story told well, you just see it coming rather too soon.
None of these new episodes really hit me in the way the older episodes do, even on rewatches. White Bear can cave your moral standpoint in on itself and White Christmas is mindblowing with how it deals with consciousness, AI and other invasive tech. San Junipero was a beautiful story told through the lens of futuristic tech.
I'll still continue watching Black Mirror if they do more as I did enjoy series 6, I just hope they can hit on the thoughtful nature they more often used to.
Didn't enjoy Beyond the Sea at all, as soon as his wife made the suggestion I could read the basic trajectory of the remaining 50 or so minutes a mile off. From that point on I just wanted it to end.
Really enjoyed Joan is Awful until the last scene. Fascinating concept but they didn't seem to be able to write themselves out of it, I thought it would have been more Black Mirror if the public basically destroyed her, then the final scene is everyone else sitting down and realising it's been rolled out globally. The single supercomputer in head office is kids cartoon stuff
Really enjoyed Joan is Awful until the last scene. Fascinating concept but they didn't seem to be able to write themselves out of it, I thought it would have been more Black Mirror if the public basically destroyed her, then the final scene is everyone else sitting down and realising it's been rolled out globally. The single supercomputer in head office is kids cartoon stuff
I've never really found Black Mirror to match the hype, like most anthology series it's hit and miss.
More hit than miss early on, with clever ideas and good writing.
Maybe the ideas are still there, but Charlie Booker seems to have lost a creative edge or two in really fleshing those ideas out.
The latest batch leans more towards random horror than tech themed dystopia.
Joan is Awful (7/10) Weak ending and lazy "shock" writing from Booker, but Selma is a hoot.
Loch Henry (6/10) B-grade horror
Beyond the Sea (6.5) Could have been really good, but too long and predictable.
Mazey Day (6/10) surprise twist, but still not that good
Demon 79 (6.5) Not bad, but needed a quicker pace.
More hit than miss early on, with clever ideas and good writing.
Maybe the ideas are still there, but Charlie Booker seems to have lost a creative edge or two in really fleshing those ideas out.
The latest batch leans more towards random horror than tech themed dystopia.
Joan is Awful (7/10) Weak ending and lazy "shock" writing from Booker, but Selma is a hoot.
Loch Henry (6/10) B-grade horror
Beyond the Sea (6.5) Could have been really good, but too long and predictable.
Mazey Day (6/10) surprise twist, but still not that good
Demon 79 (6.5) Not bad, but needed a quicker pace.
InitialDave said:
Just watched ep 3 (Beyond The Sea), pretty decent, but felt like you could see the ending coming a mile off.
That's the only one I've seen so far. I waver a bit with this series. I think I like the idea of it more than the reality.
I didn't buy Josh Astronaut turning to slaughter. It seemed like something to fit the story rather than being actually true to the character
Joey Deacon said:
Never seem it, from the description it sounds like The Twilight Zone for millennials?
It shares a lot of characteristics with The Twilight Zone, or The Outer Limits.Anthologies of short stories generally standalone, sometimes linked, with a focus on "how could [X] extrapolate to some kind of darker future?", often technology focused.
It has good and bad episodes, but when it's on form, it's really excellent.
ch37 said:
Realised I'd somehow never seen White Christmas so I watched that tonight. I figured out what was going on shortly before the reveal but it didn't matter too much, awesome bit of telly.
The 1000 year per minute punishment at the end is just utterly horrific. Unimaginable really.
A few flicks of the dial and they walk out. Very clever and very bad.The 1000 year per minute punishment at the end is just utterly horrific. Unimaginable really.
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