Charlie Brooker's BLACK MIRROR

Yeah, nice format, unusual for TV.

Not mind blowing but, you know, a decent hour and a half of television.

can't wait to see this, just rewatched the first 2 series over the weekend.

this was pompous sophomoric trenchant social commentary bullshit just like the one episode of this I endured a few years back (and nearly everything the nearly useless charlie brooker produces) but it's improved slightly in terms of watchability

Not avail legally in the U.S.?

netflix streaming.

can't find the new thing on there tho

it only aired here last night.

From the bits of half-watching I did it seemed to be the usual 1984 type bollocks.

jeez do you guys hate fun? this was like a solid mid-level episode of the Twilight Zone, i.e. fun, except with an extra layer of Brooker's pointless cruelty which i could have easily done without

I like fun but I especially like being accused of hating it because that is the last refuge of someone who knows they're defending something shit & it's nice to get reassurance

"It's like mid-level something old, but much worse!"

ooh fun

the prosecution rests you ornery old git

I just happen to catch bits of it and am allergic to a lot of Orwell. Then again I am not interested in fun.

=]

I don't know if I buy the last few minutes of "The Waldo Moment" - it reads more like the comedian's worst nightmare than "reality," it's just too...cartoonish (heh).

Just watched S1 ep1. Seemed like I missed the payoff at the end? The story comes to an end pretty much like you would expect from the setup. I guess I'm missing the magic. Just a depressing story.

My sense of this show - episodes are good to great - is that the biggest aim is to leave a viewer with a bit of nasty aftertaste and food for thought. Like, tons of conversation should follow. After watching all seven of these I'm just bursting with ideas and fears and wanting to talk to other people about it all.

I didn't really like the American idol concept one, except for the vending machine graphic when he bought an apple of "People who purchased your item, also liked [banana pic]"

I don't think I often see such varied opinion on which episodes were best or worst. For me, the one with the recorded memories dragged the most of all.

banana graphic def a hilight of that one

ok if I'd have known the first episode was "fortyfive minutes of guy being forced to fuck a pig" I wouldn't have watched it

I feel like we need a separate Black Mirror thread for people who want to discuss it instead of hate on it

caught this on a stopover in london. guardian ran two reviews, one disgusted three stars, one disgusted four stars. it sure was uncomfortable. but if you liked Black Mirror!

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/mar/08/game-review-mike-bartlett-voyeurs-audience

was the first episode directed by banksy? does this get better?

1st ep is a series lowpoint IMO but maybe it has extra appeal if you're english c.2012? -- I was told not to bother with it & went straight to S1E2 "Fifteen Million Merits" -- sorry I couldn't warn you in time

series lowpoint IMO

correct

was the first episode directed by banksy?

basically, yeah

e01 reads like an extended dramatisation of one of brooker's one-liners. didn't really merit being made into a whole episode.

dayo the only ones really worth watching are s01e03 s02e01 and the christmas special. and even those have an annoying DO U SEE? quality

Charlie Brooker has an annoying DO U SEE? quality.

i liked S01E02 but it was sentimental in a Christmassy way that might not work in summer.

thank you all, yeah the DO U SEE quality was very bad

i will put all of this into the calculus of whether or not i continue *watches anime forever*

don't bother it's waste

otm

e01 reads like an extended dramatisation of one of brooker's one-liners.

oh yeah - it really feels like a TVGH entry stretched to 45 mins

S01E02 is pretty good but yeah, I find Brooker a bit annoying these days.

I find this show an enjoyable take on a culture that isn't quite my own. Probably would dislike it as overcooked if I was actually in the UK. But who knows?

reminder that Jesse Armstrong wrote S01e03

what if phones, but too much

http://observer.com/2015/09/netflix-to-produce-original-episodes-of-black-mirror/

The pig’s head, he claimed, had been resting on the lap of a Piers Gaveston society

not black mirror but close enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXX0TRtg5Vk

Just watched Ex Machina the other night, which reminded me a lot of Black Mirror in tone and content. Made me think this series is going to end up being pretty influential.

Interestingly, the lead actor in Ex Machina plays an AI robot in a Black Mirror episode.

Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories >>>> Black Mirror

✅

good stuff, forks.

finally got around to watching the holiday special

the ending was kind of next-level bleak and cruel! it was set up throughout the episode but was still a little more than expected

the very end of the waldo episode might be the best humorous extrapolation due to the simplicity of the staging