love some pkd. ive read- >do androids dream robot sheep >3 stigmata >scanner darkly >ubik
i just bought the valdis trilogy and i hate it. im still onyl on the 1st book and it sucks so bad
Instead of some sort of philosophical moral or idea being portrayed it's 50% People are evil, 50% aliens are evil and 100% earth is destroyed and everyone dies. I enjoyed them both.
After hearing that it's not even scifitech based I refuse to watch it, what's even the point. Unironically would've watched it if they had a scifi troony ep because at least that would fit the show
Me too but up until the end. I honestly expected them to come up with some sort or arrangement i.e. cuckolding and all that (prefer that sucky idea tbh, or maybe cause thatd be a rehash of vipers? idk) and then the ending... wtf?
I was very disappointed that they did not create a scene that showed the incel gruesomely murdering that guys family, then they even censored the macabre scene by doing a focused shot on the husband crying with blood everywhere…really took me out of it
>I honestly expected them to come up with some sort or arrangement i.e. cuckolding
Could you be any more of a virgin homosexual ?
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I was very disappointed that they did not create a scene that showed the incel gruesomely murdering that guys family, then they even censored the macabre scene by doing a focused shot on the husband crying with blood everywhere…really took me out of it
Cant tell if edgy underaged mouthbreather or autistic sperg in his 30s living in moms basement
Jesus Christ, the Under Sea had issues like being predictable as frick and could be cut it half but all the takes ok it in this thread are fricking garbage
I was just thinking that
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Me too but up until the end. I honestly expected them to come up with some sort or arrangement i.e. cuckolding and all that (prefer that sucky idea tbh, or maybe cause thatd be a rehash of vipers? idk) and then the ending... wtf?
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I was very disappointed that they did not create a scene that showed the incel gruesomely murdering that guys family, then they even censored the macabre scene by doing a focused shot on the husband crying with blood everywhere…really took me out of it
>Joan is awful 3/10
Could have been good if they had focused on the idea of what it must be like for your life to get ruined by one of those sensationalist """documentaries"" that netflix makes, but the AI twist was cliched to the max and Salma Hayek sucks the life out of comedy scripts.
>Loch Henry 2/10
Ultra predictable murder mystery with like 30 seconds of parody about netflix true crime "documentaries". Gets a couple of points for the bar tender doing a good job, but loses them again for having that bizzarely ugly love interest.
>"Beyond the Sea" -100/10
I cannot believe that Brooker would write a story this idiotic even as joke. Everything about this was badly thought out and badly executed. What the frick were they thinking?
>"Mazey Day" 0/10
If you told me that this was an adaptation of a Goosebumps book, I would believe it.
>"Demon 79"
You don't even need to look at the credits to know that a histrionically-woke brown woman co-wrote it. The black guy did a good job as the demon, but everything else about this was second-hand-embarrassing to watch, including the drearily predictable ending.
Brooker needs to stop humiliating himself with this netflix trash and retire.
Beyond the Sea should've ended in the way you thought it would when he was outside the ship, that he would lock Paul out and pretend to be him. Him killing the family was boring
They also should've dragged out the tension that Paul is asleep while this dude is roaming the ship and doing whatever he wants
Because then the plot couldn't happen
And also judging by the only shit they actually do up there being exercise and station maintenance, it was probably a study on the effects of space on the human body
Doesn’t have to be a deep question. Considering she noticed he didn’t wear the hat like Paul usually does when going out, she would be immediately suspicious at the first sign of him not acting the same. Which would be in like the first hour of him “pretending to be him.”
what they should have done, is have him finish the painting. No more cuts to the spaceship. But she gets more and more paranoid that it's NOT her husband in the body. She asks questions, only he would know, he answers correctly. But she CAN'T be sure.
This continues until she runs away from home with the son or some other outburst.
Now, this next part isn't what I would like, but HAS to happen, because it's Black Mirror, innit?
Final cut is the spaceship and both astronauts are dead.
Hell, they could even make THAT good.
Terrible episode. Felt like a first draft. Nothing that happens after the first family is killed makes any sense. Characters behave like morons just so the story can happen
>Joan is awful 3/10
Could have been good if they had focused on the idea of what it must be like for your life to get ruined by one of those sensationalist """documentaries"" that netflix makes, but the AI twist was cliched to the max and Salma Hayek sucks the life out of comedy scripts.
>Loch Henry 2/10
Ultra predictable murder mystery with like 30 seconds of parody about netflix true crime "documentaries". Gets a couple of points for the bar tender doing a good job, but loses them again for having that bizzarely ugly love interest.
>"Beyond the Sea" -100/10
I cannot believe that Brooker would write a story this idiotic even as joke. Everything about this was badly thought out and badly executed. What the frick were they thinking?
>"Mazey Day" 0/10
If you told me that this was an adaptation of a goosebumps book, I would believe it.
>"Demon 79"
You don't even need to look at the credits to know that a histrionically-woke brown woman co-wrote it. The black guy did a good job as the demon, but everything else about this was second-hand-embarrassing to watch, including the drearily predictable ending.
Brooker needs to stop humiliating himself with this netflix trash and retire.
It was an incredibly generic serial killer crime story with a very predictable twist .How media illiterate can you be to consider that episode the best anything?
what is there not to understand you fricking moron? Everyone who watched the episode to the end credits knows what it was about as they literally spell it out. Doesn't save it from being an overall terrible episode.
I think it's all inside your head. The episode was written by some ultra woke writer just like all the other episodes. If you seriously think any Black Mirror episode would ever be a critique on globalization, you are out of your fricking mind.
Loch Henry is the worst Black Mirror episode of all time: it almost childishly predictable and the ending is too forced. Demon79 is awful too and both seem longwinded
Agreed with everything except Loch Henry. I get it wasn't a typical Black Mirror episode but the reveal of the Bergerac tape by the killer appearing behind her on the screen and then seeing the parents was amazing.
Demon 79 was kino. Showed just how dangerous these Neo fascist brexitards are. Was powerful seeing the oppressed Indian woman stand up for BIPOC’s with the African-American demons support to kill the evil white men. They were pedos, rapists, murderers and future fascist dictators
The black man demon and his Indian follower was literally trying to save the world by killing white men… it’s a powerful message
On the contrary, it was kino because it showed that even with faced with undeniable proof of Christianity, an immigrant would corrupt their soul rather than repent for a lifetime of blasphemy. Powerful stuff.
Demon 79 is nothing but wasted potential. This episode has nothing to do with black mirror, there's zero technology bad shit It should had been it's own show. It would had been fun seeing the poojeeta and the demon going on more adventures trying to kill more people but instead it had to be rushed out in one episode.
The pro-satanic message took me out. Historically, in literature, demons lie. The kino ending is her realizing that the world wasn't ending and that the demon lied to her to get his "wings".
It was kinda woke with how forcibly they made Aaron Paul's militant type father as a bad thing. It wasn't spelled out but it's in the subtext.
Not really, being trad and militant kept his family safe from hippies and his wife from bawdting around with Josh Harnett. His only mistake was allowing his compassion to get
the better of him and allowing Josh to keep using his replicant.
>Him killing the family was boring
But you're not seeing how killing the family pushes the message.
>The pro-satanic message took me out. Historically, in literature, demons lie.
Good call. At the end the demon simply damned her to the eternal void (that is, she sold her soul) and Armageddon happened all the same.
Even while trying to be woke, Brooker and the co-writer ended up looking like fools since the Indian main character, unlike the store owner who apparently did the same thing without being dragged to hell, was a lot smarter.
The episode also pilfers a lot from other sources: a movie called In Fabric and Pratchett/Gaiman's Good Omens among others.
I legit bursted out laughing when the mom called her pretty. I'm not even that racist but that's probably one of the ugliest sheboons I've ever seen in my life.
what the frick even happened to her? Did she slip and fall? I went back multiple times but the scene was so poorly shot/edited I still couldn't understand.
It was overall lazy, predictable, female cast is ugly and the ESG nonsense was beyond cringe. Felt like a contractual obligation fulfilled by a creator whose work now seems uninspired and nondescript.
Black Mirror went to shit the moment it opened its gates to the world instead of just UK. I'll give you a few of the episodes in S3 and 4 are pretty kino but the rest are terrible. Charlie's obviously got his money and no longer bothers putting in any effort writing new shit.
I don't know who was the stupid homosexual who had the idea of adding supernatural plots to a series based on the problems created by technology being ahead of our society but frick him or her.
For me it's white christmas. Great episode, direction, acting and story telling. John Hamm's charisma is top notch and the Game of Thrones girl is unimaginably beautiful in this.
I also especially enjoyed White Christmas, left me with goosebumps when I first watched it.
Albeit everyone seems to hate it, I also liked The National Anthem, very unsettling.
I'd say I liked almost every episode of the first three seasons (season three had some god-tier stuff such as Shut Up and Dance). The fourth season was the beginning of the downfall, but I enjoyed Metalhead. Season five was shit, but I kind of enjoyed Smithereens because it was closer to the earlier stuff.
Didn't watch Bandersnatch, but I was told I did not miss anything important.
This last season was just awful all around, not one episode was decent.
Beyond the sea was pretty moronic to the point it was funny. Especially at the end seeing yesse seethe and the other guy kicking the chair right next to him.
I mean homosexual how could you tell him: >Huuurrr shee's miine forever in every waay I (my replica) fricks (presumably) and you will never frick again >Oh there's nothing you can do you suicidal homosexual. >brb gotta go sleep for 5 days, don't you get crazy alone here or something, there's no way I could spend 3 days with you now that you are alone, I must see my family and sit at the farm.
Oh and the replica we can't make one again because you are not here and we have not saved the designs of the robot. Sorry Mr. Painter guy.
Yeah, shouldn't have lived in a house with no doors in the middle of the city using a ultra-expensive robot that is useless against five hippies.
What the frick were they thinking? Do they even get home one day.
Last episode was just full of fricking crap I almost skipped it.
Mazey day, I would be inside Mazey all day if you crasp my meaning mean.
That whole episode pissed me off. Could not finish it given the thought process behind it. >why not have the replicas in space and the humans on earth? >wouldn’t the humans on earth require 24 hour security given the cost of this mission? >you can’t make another replica but you can use another persons? You can’t just whip together a simple bot for him to inhabit in the meantime? >lmao what space company wouldn’t have redundancy for shit like this?
Also, even buying all that bullshit about replicas, why did no one suggest therapy and counseling for the man who had lost his family? Did they think he would have just gone on with his job like nothing had happened? Especially considering he would have been left alone for five days a week on an empty ship with no one to talk to?
And, was the replica the only way they could communicate with Earth? Why did they not think of what to do if a replica malfunctioned or something, since they burned the designs and could not build another one? So the two couldn't even message friends or something?
Nothing makes sense in this episode, except for the painter's last name.
The narrative contrivances harmed the episode a lot besides the obvious question of sending the replicas to space instead of real humans: why not have extra replicas? Why not have a third astronaut in case one of them died suddenly? Why end the episode assuming they'd reach an understanding?
I just started watching this. Been skipping thru watching different episodes, and I have absolutely no clue how these last two seasons are any different than previous seasons. It’s always been the same sensationalist pulp schlock. It can be entertaining, but it’s fricking stupid.
A lot of people make fun of it for “what if phone, but too much,” but the biggest offenders are the adolescent takes on the way world works and the absolutely moronic depictions of human behavior.
Demon 79 is a special kind of bad, because it went out of its way to break the conventions of the series to the point of giving it a different show title, only to tell the most generic elementary school demon story I've ever fricking heard, where the only 'new' idea they seem to have brought to the table was the equally generic and cringeworthy RACISM IS BAD browbeating, which was also in half of the rest of the episodes anyway
>poc needs to kill people to stop the world from ending
>sees politician as super hitler in the future. >says it is him or nothing >cop stops her with kindness >world ends because white people didn’t let her kill super hitler.
I was disappointed in this one.
I kept thinking >demon is fricking with her >the twist is he does this to everyone in town or something. >dude killed his wife because of this demon.
Nope, don’t know who let write this garbage but they should be told to shut the frick up next meeting.
This season was even worse than 5, it's fricking incredible. All around terrible writing and episodes that have nothing to do with black mirror.
They really dumbed down the series for the idiots that watch netflix.
To me it was a storytelling means to let Josh's use of his body go even further. Even slapping the son is accepted in his mind, because obviously the son needs discipline.
I have something to say about the supernatural that may seem like cope to some.
Since it is so likely that everyone lives in a simulation, paranormal entities like demons or werewolves can be just programmed into the world, every myth or weird story can be real and elusive to scientists if we're being monitored by the programmers of our computer world.
Doesn't stop those episodes from being shit though. I only liked the murder mystery episode because it caught me by surprise, yet I disliked the ugly gf of the main character.
I'm very disappointed by this season, but it's what I expected it would be like if the series returned. IIRC they canceled black mirror, so I expected a diversity quota for black mirror to come back, disgusting.
I think the stories are very average. The production quality is good. The acting is fine. The move from near future techno dystopia to literally anything, is bad and the white man bad means I enjoy it a lot less. I cant agree with the characters and their motivations.
Final score: I'm not demanding it be cancelled but neither am I going to watch it. Enjoy your show, brown and black people.
Please someone explain me the Mazey Day (the werewolf one). What was the point of the homosexual suiciding and at the end the photographer taking 180 and photoing the another suicide. All celebrities are evil?
black mirror is usually well written but I didn't get this one
It's the Black Mirror angle of the episode: the evils and excesses of the media. The pap help the werewolf shoot herself and her plea to be "shot" had a double meaning as it meant the pap taking pics of her.
Very silly and shallow
Its just like the Simpsons... they ran out of ideas.
Happens to every show that goes on long enough, especially interesting and clever shows since interesting and clever ideas are more difficult to come up with.
Five minutes in it was completely obvious that 1)the mother was hiding something 2)the Bergerac tapes and the mask would have some later meaning and 3)the cop father was probably not as innocent since these 3 elements align with Brooker's uncreative reliance on his cliches. As the episode went on it became more and more predictable in that "I know exactly what'll happen next" pace that mediocre stories have.
watch 90s Outer Limits instead.
Some great episodes, some terrible episodes.
I recommend reading phillip k dick short stories.
love some pkd. ive read-
>do androids dream robot sheep
>3 stigmata
>scanner darkly
>ubik
i just bought the valdis trilogy and i hate it. im still onyl on the 1st book and it sucks so bad
>Outer Limits
how does this compare to the twilight zone
Instead of some sort of philosophical moral or idea being portrayed it's 50% People are evil, 50% aliens are evil and 100% earth is destroyed and everyone dies. I enjoyed them both.
Much wider variety of stories than Twilight Zone and no reliance on ironic twists/karma
I miss white America
You mean 60s right?
After hearing that it's not even scifitech based I refuse to watch it, what's even the point. Unironically would've watched it if they had a scifi troony ep because at least that would fit the show
First episode wasnt bad, as well as the serial killer sex torture one
I was just thinking that
Me too but up until the end. I honestly expected them to come up with some sort or arrangement i.e. cuckolding and all that (prefer that sucky idea tbh, or maybe cause thatd be a rehash of vipers? idk) and then the ending... wtf?
I was very disappointed that they did not create a scene that showed the incel gruesomely murdering that guys family, then they even censored the macabre scene by doing a focused shot on the husband crying with blood everywhere…really took me out of it
what incel? The family was murdered by a hippy cult leader. Did you even watch the episode?
I mean. He was celibate and it was involuntary sooo
what in the literal frick….jesus christ man you need to go get some help, talk to a counselor or something
I think he is talking about the astronaut that was infatuated with the other one’s wife after he lost his family to the hippy death cult
holy frick…you should be placed on a watchlist my guy
>I honestly expected them to come up with some sort or arrangement i.e. cuckolding
Could you be any more of a virgin homosexual ?
Cant tell if edgy underaged mouthbreather or autistic sperg in his 30s living in moms basement
Jesus Christ, the Under Sea had issues like being predictable as frick and could be cut it half but all the takes ok it in this thread are fricking garbage
First one is a 20 min premise dragged out with a GOD AWFUL finale twist.
>sex torture
I'm intrigued. Tell me more.
I liked the Beyond The Sea episode though
Beyond the Sea should've ended in the way you thought it would when he was outside the ship, that he would lock Paul out and pretend to be him. Him killing the family was boring
They also should've dragged out the tension that Paul is asleep while this dude is roaming the ship and doing whatever he wants
They also never should've shelved the cult, they were the most interesting part of the episode
>you sleep in the sky while your shadow walks the earth
Kino
Also, why did they just have the replicants in space instead of their real bodies
Because then the plot couldn't happen
And also judging by the only shit they actually do up there being exercise and station maintenance, it was probably a study on the effects of space on the human body
Except they need two crew to man the ship. Neither will try to harm the other until they get back, hence the ending.
They both lost everything, and I'm pretty sure Paul would want nothing more than murder the guy.
All Kate Mara had to do is ask him one question about Aaron Paul’s character, and his cover is blown. That ending would have made no sense.
Their marriage was frigid, so I doubt she asked him deep things or brought up memories
Doesn’t have to be a deep question. Considering she noticed he didn’t wear the hat like Paul usually does when going out, she would be immediately suspicious at the first sign of him not acting the same. Which would be in like the first hour of him “pretending to be him.”
what they should have done, is have him finish the painting. No more cuts to the spaceship. But she gets more and more paranoid that it's NOT her husband in the body. She asks questions, only he would know, he answers correctly. But she CAN'T be sure.
This continues until she runs away from home with the son or some other outburst.
Now, this next part isn't what I would like, but HAS to happen, because it's Black Mirror, innit?
Final cut is the spaceship and both astronauts are dead.
Hell, they could even make THAT good.
Frick, that would have been good.
>Him killing the family was boring
But you're not seeing how killing the family pushes the message.
I was just wondering why they put the robots on earth, and the humans in space. Wouldn't the opposite make more sense?
Terrible episode. Felt like a first draft. Nothing that happens after the first family is killed makes any sense. Characters behave like morons just so the story can happen
I enjoyed the Annie Murphy one. The snuff movie one was pretty funny too. Overall pretty impressed so far.
That's your mistake for continuing to watch after S03.
I've enjoyed them all sans the paparazzi one.
Reminded me of that movie nightcrawler
When Black Mirror starting becoming american it just turned bad
>Joan is awful 3/10
Could have been good if they had focused on the idea of what it must be like for your life to get ruined by one of those sensationalist """documentaries"" that netflix makes, but the AI twist was cliched to the max and Salma Hayek sucks the life out of comedy scripts.
>Loch Henry 2/10
Ultra predictable murder mystery with like 30 seconds of parody about netflix true crime "documentaries". Gets a couple of points for the bar tender doing a good job, but loses them again for having that bizzarely ugly love interest.
>"Beyond the Sea" -100/10
I cannot believe that Brooker would write a story this idiotic even as joke. Everything about this was badly thought out and badly executed. What the frick were they thinking?
>"Mazey Day" 0/10
If you told me that this was an adaptation of a goosebumps book, I would believe it.
>"Demon 79"
You don't even need to look at the credits to know that a histrionically-woke brown woman co-wrote it. The black guy did a good job as the demon, but everything else about this was second-hand-embarrassing to watch, including the drearily predictable ending.
Brooker needs to stop humiliating himself with this netflix trash and retire.
What pleb level taste.
Loch Henry is the best episode, maybe the best black mirror episode all together, but people are too stupid to get it.
It was an incredibly generic serial killer crime story with a very predictable twist .How media illiterate can you be to consider that episode the best anything?
See, too stupid to understand
what is there not to understand you fricking moron? Everyone who watched the episode to the end credits knows what it was about as they literally spell it out. Doesn't save it from being an overall terrible episode.
Why don't you explain in for us, Charlie?
It's about globalization. I'm not giving you any more than that.
>When the show is so bad that even Cinemaphile contrarians can't make up believable reasons for why it was good.
You hate to see it.
I think it's all inside your head. The episode was written by some ultra woke writer just like all the other episodes. If you seriously think any Black Mirror episode would ever be a critique on globalization, you are out of your fricking mind.
I didn't say critique
woa anon what a cliff hanger
Loch Henry is the worst Black Mirror episode of all time: it almost childishly predictable and the ending is too forced. Demon79 is awful too and both seem longwinded
You think it's about the twist. Very shallow reading
It has to work on the narrative level, which it doesn't, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with "globalization" if you're the same guy above
>has to work on the narrative level
Narrative seems pretty straightforward to me.
That means it's bad, not that it works. The stereotypical characters and the abysmal predictability of the story are ridiculous
>"Beyond the Sea" -100/10
Gotta agree this one was great
Agreed with everything except Loch Henry. I get it wasn't a typical Black Mirror episode but the reveal of the Bergerac tape by the killer appearing behind her on the screen and then seeing the parents was amazing.
How was that not obvious to you from the start? It was the laziest Chekhov gun imaginable. Likewise the mask which the gf stares at when they arrive
Only an ugly black woman would cast such an ugly black woman.
>A werewolf
>A demon
Fricking really? This shit is not black mirror anymore
WOT IF UR TOASTER WAS A WEREWOLF
What is with this show and the constant recurring theme of cuckoldry?
Brooker seems pussywhipped irl, he even gave his wife's surname to the main character of the terrible Demon 79 ep
Demon 79 was kino. Showed just how dangerous these Neo fascist brexitards are. Was powerful seeing the oppressed Indian woman stand up for BIPOC’s with the African-American demons support to kill the evil white men. They were pedos, rapists, murderers and future fascist dictators
The black man demon and his Indian follower was literally trying to save the world by killing white men… it’s a powerful message
On the contrary, it was kino because it showed that even with faced with undeniable proof of Christianity, an immigrant would corrupt their soul rather than repent for a lifetime of blasphemy. Powerful stuff.
Demon 79 is nothing but wasted potential. This episode has nothing to do with black mirror, there's zero technology bad shit It should had been it's own show. It would had been fun seeing the poojeeta and the demon going on more adventures trying to kill more people but instead it had to be rushed out in one episode.
It showed how Whites need to flat out purge everyone else before they do it to us
almost half of the population actually thinks like this.
The pro-satanic message took me out. Historically, in literature, demons lie. The kino ending is her realizing that the world wasn't ending and that the demon lied to her to get his "wings".
Not really, being trad and militant kept his family safe from hippies and his wife from bawdting around with Josh Harnett. His only mistake was allowing his compassion to get
the better of him and allowing Josh to keep using his replicant.
What's the message?
>The pro-satanic message took me out. Historically, in literature, demons lie.
Good call. At the end the demon simply damned her to the eternal void (that is, she sold her soul) and Armageddon happened all the same.
Even while trying to be woke, Brooker and the co-writer ended up looking like fools since the Indian main character, unlike the store owner who apparently did the same thing without being dragged to hell, was a lot smarter.
The episode also pilfers a lot from other sources: a movie called In Fabric and Pratchett/Gaiman's Good Omens among others.
As a White man, it tought me a powerful message: we need to kill all non-whites to protect the world.
Episode 2 definitely had the ugliest black chick I've seen in a while. Even female Klingons are more attractive.
I legit bursted out laughing when the mom called her pretty. I'm not even that racist but that's probably one of the ugliest sheboons I've ever seen in my life.
She has s nice ass but she looked rough, not least bc her style choices looked awful and her skin seemed weird w pimples or whatever
what the frick even happened to her? Did she slip and fall? I went back multiple times but the scene was so poorly shot/edited I still couldn't understand.
>watching bongoid globohomosexual tv show
do teevee sirs really?
It was overall lazy, predictable, female cast is ugly and the ESG nonsense was beyond cringe. Felt like a contractual obligation fulfilled by a creator whose work now seems uninspired and nondescript.
>technology bad tv show
>last two episodes had zero technology and were just fantasy shit
Black Mirror went to shit the moment it opened its gates to the world instead of just UK. I'll give you a few of the episodes in S3 and 4 are pretty kino but the rest are terrible. Charlie's obviously got his money and no longer bothers putting in any effort writing new shit.
WUT IF A COMPU'A WAS BAD AND HORNY THAD BE FOOKIN MAD INNIT!
I don't know who was the stupid homosexual who had the idea of adding supernatural plots to a series based on the problems created by technology being ahead of our society but frick him or her.
WOT IF YER COMPUTAH WAS A RACIS
Should have stopped after season 1 and 2. Americans don't know how to write anything.
For me it's white christmas. Great episode, direction, acting and story telling. John Hamm's charisma is top notch and the Game of Thrones girl is unimaginably beautiful in this.
Your favourite episodes, frens?
Nobody wants to talk about their favourite episodes?? 🙁
I like the one that promotes race mixing and marxist mindsets.
Metalhead and The Entire History of You are good and woke-free
The Entire History of You was pure kino.
I also especially enjoyed White Christmas, left me with goosebumps when I first watched it.
Albeit everyone seems to hate it, I also liked The National Anthem, very unsettling.
I'd say I liked almost every episode of the first three seasons (season three had some god-tier stuff such as Shut Up and Dance). The fourth season was the beginning of the downfall, but I enjoyed Metalhead. Season five was shit, but I kind of enjoyed Smithereens because it was closer to the earlier stuff.
Didn't watch Bandersnatch, but I was told I did not miss anything important.
This last season was just awful all around, not one episode was decent.
Entire History of You is the only one I’ve seen that didn’t have some major plot holes or stupidity that ruined the whole thing.
first 5 minutes of the first episode has some homosexual in a dress like it's all normal.
dropped
It's so bad.
Beyond the sea was pretty moronic to the point it was funny. Especially at the end seeing yesse seethe and the other guy kicking the chair right next to him.
I mean homosexual how could you tell him:
>Huuurrr shee's miine forever in every waay I (my replica) fricks (presumably) and you will never frick again
>Oh there's nothing you can do you suicidal homosexual.
>brb gotta go sleep for 5 days, don't you get crazy alone here or something, there's no way I could spend 3 days with you now that you are alone, I must see my family and sit at the farm.
Oh and the replica we can't make one again because you are not here and we have not saved the designs of the robot. Sorry Mr. Painter guy.
Yeah, shouldn't have lived in a house with no doors in the middle of the city using a ultra-expensive robot that is useless against five hippies.
What the frick were they thinking? Do they even get home one day.
Last episode was just full of fricking crap I almost skipped it.
Mazey day, I would be inside Mazey all day if you crasp my meaning mean.
That whole episode pissed me off. Could not finish it given the thought process behind it.
>why not have the replicas in space and the humans on earth?
>wouldn’t the humans on earth require 24 hour security given the cost of this mission?
>you can’t make another replica but you can use another persons? You can’t just whip together a simple bot for him to inhabit in the meantime?
>lmao what space company wouldn’t have redundancy for shit like this?
Also, even buying all that bullshit about replicas, why did no one suggest therapy and counseling for the man who had lost his family? Did they think he would have just gone on with his job like nothing had happened? Especially considering he would have been left alone for five days a week on an empty ship with no one to talk to?
And, was the replica the only way they could communicate with Earth? Why did they not think of what to do if a replica malfunctioned or something, since they burned the designs and could not build another one? So the two couldn't even message friends or something?
Nothing makes sense in this episode, except for the painter's last name.
The narrative contrivances harmed the episode a lot besides the obvious question of sending the replicas to space instead of real humans: why not have extra replicas? Why not have a third astronaut in case one of them died suddenly? Why end the episode assuming they'd reach an understanding?
Beyond the Sea is just pretentious garbage. The replicas narrative is interesting, but it is executed terribly by this stupid hacks.
I just started watching this. Been skipping thru watching different episodes, and I have absolutely no clue how these last two seasons are any different than previous seasons. It’s always been the same sensationalist pulp schlock. It can be entertaining, but it’s fricking stupid.
A lot of people make fun of it for “what if phone, but too much,” but the biggest offenders are the adolescent takes on the way world works and the absolutely moronic depictions of human behavior.
The creator a fricking moron.
Last season sucked too
Bandersnatch also sucked
Nothing good culturally has come out of Britannia in almost a decade, what were you expecting?
Demon 79 is a special kind of bad, because it went out of its way to break the conventions of the series to the point of giving it a different show title, only to tell the most generic elementary school demon story I've ever fricking heard, where the only 'new' idea they seem to have brought to the table was the equally generic and cringeworthy RACISM IS BAD browbeating, which was also in half of the rest of the episodes anyway
>netflix spent all budget on beyond the sea episode and made it feature length
ahahahaha, chatgpt wouldve written it better
It does not suck.
It's even worse than suck.
Does demon 76 get better? I'm suffering from major poc fatigue with how they portray every white character as evil.
No
The ending is the lamest shit possible
I had to drop it when the demon became a POC (person of color)
>poc needs to kill people to stop the world from ending
>sees politician as super hitler in the future.
>says it is him or nothing
>cop stops her with kindness
>world ends because white people didn’t let her kill super hitler.
I was disappointed in this one.
I kept thinking
>demon is fricking with her
>the twist is he does this to everyone in town or something.
>dude killed his wife because of this demon.
Nope, don’t know who let write this garbage but they should be told to shut the frick up next meeting.
>dude killed his wife because of this demon.
Maybe he did.
is the first paragraph of greentext actually what happens? a literal demon tried to "save democracy"?
The pig episode is kino
Shut up and Dance is okay
The Lesbian episode is kino as much as I hate to admit it, given that I hate LGBT folk
White Christmas has a nice concept and works at points but the actual episode itself, meh.
Everything else is basically unwatchable.
yea, the lesbian episode is highest kino.
I don't get why everyone loved the Lesbian episode. Can someone elaborate?
They should remove the black mirror label and just call this a Tales from the Crypt reboot
This season was even worse than 5, it's fricking incredible. All around terrible writing and episodes that have nothing to do with black mirror.
They really dumbed down the series for the idiots that watch netflix.
How nogged is the new season?
The only good episode, the one with Jessie Pinkman and Josh Garnett, doesn't have any minorities or POCs. The rest are turbp woke
Thanks, I'll watch that. The promotional stuff for it does look interesting.
It was kinda woke with how forcibly they made Aaron Paul's militant type father as a bad thing. It wasn't spelled out but it's in the subtext.
Right, hadn't thought of it that way.
To me it was a storytelling means to let Josh's use of his body go even further. Even slapping the son is accepted in his mind, because obviously the son needs discipline.
2023 and you're watching netflix KYS moron!!!
I have something to say about the supernatural that may seem like cope to some.
Since it is so likely that everyone lives in a simulation, paranormal entities like demons or werewolves can be just programmed into the world, every myth or weird story can be real and elusive to scientists if we're being monitored by the programmers of our computer world.
Doesn't stop those episodes from being shit though. I only liked the murder mystery episode because it caught me by surprise, yet I disliked the ugly gf of the main character.
I'm very disappointed by this season, but it's what I expected it would be like if the series returned. IIRC they canceled black mirror, so I expected a diversity quota for black mirror to come back, disgusting.
I think the stories are very average. The production quality is good. The acting is fine. The move from near future techno dystopia to literally anything, is bad and the white man bad means I enjoy it a lot less. I cant agree with the characters and their motivations.
Final score: I'm not demanding it be cancelled but neither am I going to watch it. Enjoy your show, brown and black people.
Please someone explain me the Mazey Day (the werewolf one). What was the point of the homosexual suiciding and at the end the photographer taking 180 and photoing the another suicide. All celebrities are evil?
black mirror is usually well written but I didn't get this one
It's the Black Mirror angle of the episode: the evils and excesses of the media. The pap help the werewolf shoot herself and her plea to be "shot" had a double meaning as it meant the pap taking pics of her.
Very silly and shallow
huh... guess you're right... it's not that bad but also felt like someone wanted to do werewolf episode lol
still the best episode
Its just like the Simpsons... they ran out of ideas.
Happens to every show that goes on long enough, especially interesting and clever shows since interesting and clever ideas are more difficult to come up with.
loch henry was almost 10/10 kino
It was never good. The first two episodes were only OK, the rest was shit.
Everyone saying that Loch Henry was kino, explain. Have you never seen a murder mystery movie?
Please, I need to see the light.
Five minutes in it was completely obvious that 1)the mother was hiding something 2)the Bergerac tapes and the mask would have some later meaning and 3)the cop father was probably not as innocent since these 3 elements align with Brooker's uncreative reliance on his cliches. As the episode went on it became more and more predictable in that "I know exactly what'll happen next" pace that mediocre stories have.
Charlie Brooker was one of the founders of CEX. Fitting his career started off with "Wot if phone store but phones r stolen".
He also did comics for the advert
Black Mirror has always been trash, you guys are just now realizing?