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]"
― johnny crunch, Friday, 23 January 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 23 January 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
banana graphic def a hilight of that one
― gr8080, Friday, 23 January 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
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
― pilate is my cogod (Crabbits), Monday, 26 January 2015 01:27 (nine years ago) link
I feel like we need a separate Black Mirror thread for people who want to discuss it instead of hate on it
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 26 January 2015 02:02 (nine years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Monday, 30 March 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
was the first episode directed by banksy? does this get better?
― 龜, Monday, 29 June 2015 01:31 (eight years ago) link
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
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Monday, 29 June 2015 03:34 (eight years ago) link
series lowpoint IMO
correct
― back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Monday, 29 June 2015 04:43 (eight years ago) link
was the first episode directed by banksy?
basically, yeah
― the story of ilm: an ottyssey (wins), Monday, 29 June 2015 06:39 (eight years ago) link
e01 reads like an extended dramatisation of one of brooker's one-liners. didn't really merit being made into a whole episode.
― cod latin (dog latin), Monday, 29 June 2015 08:45 (eight years ago) link
dayo the only ones really worth watching are s01e03 s02e01 and the christmas special. and even those have an annoying DO U SEE? quality
― max, Monday, 29 June 2015 11:28 (eight years ago) link
Charlie Brooker has an annoying DO U SEE? quality.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 29 June 2015 11:33 (eight years ago) link
i liked S01E02 but it was sentimental in a Christmassy way that might not work in summer.
― cod latin (dog latin), Monday, 29 June 2015 11:35 (eight years ago) link
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*
― 龜, Monday, 29 June 2015 11:40 (eight years ago) link
don't bother it's waste
― the story of ilm: an ottyssey (wins), Monday, 29 June 2015 12:07 (eight years ago) link
otm
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Monday, 29 June 2015 12:23 (eight years ago) link
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
― back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Monday, 29 June 2015 13:20 (eight years ago) link
S01E02 is pretty good but yeah, I find Brooker a bit annoying these days.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Monday, 29 June 2015 14:10 (eight years ago) link
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?
― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 29 June 2015 14:17 (eight years ago) link
reminder that Jesse Armstrong wrote S01e03
― back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Monday, 29 June 2015 14:20 (eight years ago) link
what if phones, but too much
― etc, Monday, 29 June 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
http://observer.com/2015/09/netflix-to-produce-original-episodes-of-black-mirror/
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
The pig’s head, he claimed, had been resting on the lap of a Piers Gaveston society
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 21 September 2015 11:27 (eight years ago) link
not black mirror but close enoughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXX0TRtg5Vk
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
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.
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Friday, 11 December 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link
Interestingly, the lead actor in Ex Machina plays an AI robot in a Black Mirror episode.
― dinnerboat, Friday, 11 December 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories >>>> Black Mirror
― latebloomer, Friday, 11 December 2015 20:10 (eight years ago) link
✅
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Friday, 11 December 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link
good stuff, forks.
― ledge, Friday, 11 December 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
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
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 14 December 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
the very end of the waldo episode might be the best humorous extrapolation due to the simplicity of the staging
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 14 December 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
http://sfplayhouse.org/sfph/2015-2016-season/the-nether/
if you're in the bay area, this is running for another couple of weeks and I'd recommend it pretty strongly. it's darker than the darkest episode of Black Mirror, though; it's as if they'd done an episode version of <i>The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect</i>. I stuck around for the question and answer last night and my favorite comment was about the morality of letting an actual 12 year old female actress handle the part, and they said 'we checked with her parents and gave them a script rundown and where we were coming from with it, and they ended up letting her decide, saying "we'd prefer that you find out these things about the internet through a work of art instead of from the internet itself" '
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 3 March 2016 23:24 (eight years ago) link
new Netflix-only series from the 21st october...
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-10-02/when-is-black-mirror-on-netflix
― koogs, Thursday, 6 October 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
ty for headsup
― kinder, Thursday, 6 October 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-vAp9n8rQc
― schwantz, Friday, 7 October 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
New series is out. Have watched two of the six so far.
Nosedive, the popularity one with Bryce Dallas Howard, is light with touches of darkness. It's not something I'd watch again but it was well done and the ending made me smile.
Shut Up And Dance though...God. I never thought I'd feel physically sick after watching something, and this was after guessing the twist and the outcome. Incredibly well done, but if I could pay for my memory of the episode to be wiped, I would.
― gyac, Friday, 21 October 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
"Nosedive"....ooooof. Fifteen minutes in, Stepford Wives af.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 22 October 2016 03:13 (seven years ago) link
I've been meaning to watch this for years, sort of saving up for a special occasion, because I like Charlie Brooker. But more to the point, whenever I see the title "Black Mirror" I sing it to the tune of Kiss's "Black Diamond."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 October 2016 03:17 (seven years ago) link
I've little familiarity with Kiss but I like this show
― mh 😏, Saturday, 22 October 2016 03:21 (seven years ago) link
The ending made me so happy
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 22 October 2016 04:05 (seven years ago) link
very, very glad I waited until I woke up this morning to watch "Playtest."
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 22 October 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
there are at least a couple episodes in the new batch that invoke pure terror!
― mh 😏, Saturday, 22 October 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
i've only watched the final two episodes of the new one so far but the final ep really could have been a stand-alone horror movie. just really effective in its scares, atmosphere, etc. the second-to-last falls into the trap people complain about which is when the in-character speechifying about the actual theme of the episode starts we're in trouble.
― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 22 October 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
So gyac - would you not recommend watching Shut Up And Dance? I mean the first episode of season 1 left me feeling pretty queasy.
― Ross, Saturday, 22 October 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
Watched the first one last night...facile but fun
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 22 October 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
Seems they always err on the side of obviousness
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 22 October 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
Having watched all 6, I would rank them:
1) Hated In The Nation (despite some weak plot points)2) Shut Up And Dance3) Playtest4) San Junipero5) Nosedive6) Men Against Fire (though it's not bad at all, and was pretty painful at times).
― gyac, Saturday, 22 October 2016 21:32 (seven years ago) link
Also, the casting is incredible. Especially loved Gugu Mbatha-Raw in San Junipero and Kelly McDonald in Hated In The Nation.
― gyac, Saturday, 22 October 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
hated Shut Up and Dance, lazy hyper-sadism for its own sake. interesting that the most rote "BM being BM" episode was actually written by other people ("Nosedive").
about to watch the sixth ep, so far "San Junipero" is the clear winner.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 22 October 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link