Charlie Brooker's BLACK MIRROR

In a dystopian future, an insecure man spends his life's savings to get a cybernetic robot penis installed and becomes a literal sex machine. But then it turns out his lover has been a secret robot sub all along, and his partner long ago left him for another man ... who turns out to be a robot! With a REAL penis! Irony!

Brilliant work by Josh in Chicago in this thread.

Basically, sure, but my love for this series isn't lessened.

I thought we went over all that way back when

Ok I hadn't seen this before. Lol.

Ahead of its time.

now I feel old because all of Black Mirror seems to have aired recently, or at least in the "now," but I guess it did start in 2011

I just watched season 1 episode 1.

"Jane...... please"

Episode 2 sucks

Season 4 coming soon. Episode titles & credits:

“Arkangel”
Cast: Rosemarie Dewitt (La La Land, Mad Men), Brenna Harding (A Place to Call Home), Owen Teague (Bloodline)
Director: Jodie Foster
Written by: Charlie Brooker

“USS Callister”
Cast: Jesse Plemons (Black Mass, Fargo), Cristin Milioti (The Wolf of Wall Street, Fargo), Jimmi Simpson (Westworld, House of Cards), Michaela Coel (Chewing Gum, Monsters: Dark Continent)
Director: Toby Haynes (Dr Who, Sherlock)
Written By: Charlie Brooker & William Bridges

“Crocodile”
Cast: Andrea Riseborough (Birdman, Bloodline), Andrew Gower (Outlander), Kiran Sonia Sawar (Murdered By My Father)
Director: John Hillcoat (Triple Nine, Lawless)
Written By: Charlie Brooker

“Hang the DJ”
Cast: Georgina Campbell (Flowers, Broadchurch), Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders, Green Room), George Blagden (Versailles, Vikings)
Director: Tim Van Patten (The Sopranos, Game of Thrones)
Written By: Charlie Brooker

“Metalhead”
Cast: Maxine Peake (The Theory Of Everything, The Village), Jake Davies (The Missing, A Brilliant Young Mind), Clint Dyer (Hope Springs)
Director: David Slade (Hannibal, American Gods)
Written By: Charlie Brooker

“Black Museum”
Cast: Douglas Hodge (The Night Manager, Catastrophe), Letitia Wright (Humans, Ready Player One), Babs Olusanmokun (Roots, The Defenders)
Director: Colm McCarthy
Written By: Charlie Brooker

Teaser is out..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH85obU350E

Premieres December 29th
https://pitchfork.com/news/netflix-announces-black-mirror-season-4-premiere-date/

still excited for the possibility of a fidget spinner episode

I know it was deeply flawed but Nathan Barley was a deeply accurate glimpse of the future pre-Black Mirror, but the future is now

josh az otm, massive own-goal if they do not feature

let's do this then. Enjoying the first one so far.

[as a parent] fuck you brooker for putting that image in my head

I know EXACTLY what image

I'm watching "Arkangel". Parents, please have a full glass of wine before you spin this one up.

Seriously, this is devastating stuff.

I’m watching that one right now and alternating between cringe and outrage and hoping this doesn’t go the way I’m worried about but ohhh nooo

is USS Callister any good? I'm not interested in Star Trek or any of that stuff so I'd be inclined to avoid it.

yes, it’s about a simulated world, just happens to be trek themed

I think I'd rather watch an hourlong interview with Brooker than an episode of his show, but I'll give the Star Trek one a go.

"Crocodile" is bleak af

holy heck

I don't really need any more from tv shows

chekov’s pig

ah crud, forgot it was only six episodes and accidentally the whole thing

there were a couple uplifting bits in there and I liked the anthology horror format of the last one

Don’t think many people liked Metalhead, minimal as it is, but I did! Maxine Peake was great.

Arkangel hurt a bit to watch. It’s good, though. I had a lot of questions about the core technology that the episode didn’t go into, but that’s beside the point.

Hang the DJ is great, though not quite as good as San Junipero. Gets incredibly bleak at points which makes the ending even more satisfying.

Seen Arkangel and Crocodile so far. Enjoyed both just hoping the next one doesn't involve a chip in a head.

Any idea why Crocodile was filmed in Iceland (by the looks of it) but everyone had an English accent?

I'm guessing some sort of massive tax break.

I thought some of USS Callister might have been filmed there as well. That lake had a cold look about it.

USS Callister was great. Never expected anyone to pull off (or even attempt) a fun and enjoyable version of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

I did enjoy seeing my hometown used in Arkangel.

And as a dad of a three year old girl, the rest was a serious bummer.

I really enjoyed Metalhead. Short form escape story of the type Blomkamp’s being trying for but with more of a human touch

only seen uss callister so far and (without spoiling anything) i don't understand why anyone would care about most of the principal characters

Ugh, this Black Museum episode is awful and boring. It better have a point.

uss mcallister giving me the cat person vibes

Black museum was rubbish "would you like your comatose wife to live inside your head?" "Yeah why not"

what if phones, but too much

We wondered if the AV Club reviewer might have had a point, and that episode was supposed to be a grotesque "wrong" version of a Black Mirror story, which then tipped over into just being bad. It's the only one that doesn't have a female protagonist, and the others are mostly set in cold places, whereas this episode makes a big deal out of telling you how hot it is (which I know is germane to the plot, but still...). Anyway, it was weirdly out of place and terrible.

https://78.media.tumblr.com/2846dda95be5efaa86f0a0826cec4cea/tumblr_p1te4jNIBK1vtwqhpo1_1280.jpg

Black Museum episode reminded me of Tales from the Crypt, complete with the ending where someone's trying to kill the cryptkeeper for being a purveyor of misery

Black Mirror S4 episode list :

1. Cor Blimey, What If Facebook Likes Were The Only Way To Earn a Quid
2. There Is An App That Can Download You, Well Scary Innit Bruv
3. Me New Misses Is a Android And I Aint Bovvered
4. The Cheeky Gov'na Got A Pic Of Me Bollocks Through Me Webcam

— Callum (@rasta_dad) December 29, 2017

I've only watched the first episode of this season so far. It made little sense within the "constraints" of the Black Mirror universe but Jesse Plemmons does one HELL of a good Shatner.

i fucking loved that episode. way more playful than they usually are (but still p dark at the same time).

I really like Black Mirror and I'm unafraid to say it

Also, jokes about the premise are fun

Metalhead was probably the best thing about this season, even if it doesn't feel like it belongs to the Black Mirror Universe (not just in theme, but more on this later). USS Callister was fun but then completely fell apart once they got to the wormhole and/or trying to work out what the last 10 minutes *means* destroys the logic of the rest of it. Hang The DJ had quite an engaging story but the tech bolt-on to provide DO YOU SEE was clunky as hell.

Didn't care for either Arkangel or Crocodile, they were both completely in service of the one DO YOU SEE idea and the circumstances portrayed were pretty ridiculous.

Black Museum was kind of hacky and predictable but, as noted above, adhered pretty strongly to portmanteau tropes (spooky owner linking the plot strands, which all subtly contribute to each other and culminate in pet toad hoisting). The real reason for it, however, is I think it's there to act as an anchor to prove the Black Mirror universe exists and all the stories take place in the same setting. In the Black Museum I spotted:

Photos of the 'victim' from White Bear and Michael Smiley's character.
The bath from Crocodile.
The DNA converter from USS Callister
The Arkangel tablet
A bee from Hated In The Nation
A mention of "old people uploading to the cloud" i.e. San Junipero
The embalmed(?) body of the artist from The National Anthem
and finally one of the death masks appears to be Charlie Brooker.

In a different episode, the porn film she watches in Crocodile is the one that gets made in Fifteen Million Merits.

I really like Black Mirror and I'm unafraid to say it

Also, jokes about the premise are fun

― mh, Tuesday, January 2, 2018 5:04 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too

The first section of Black Museum (written by Penn Gillette!) was just fucking gross. And then the idea that people would enjoy owning a screaming keychain of a permanently-tortured human soul was misanthropic, even for Black Mirror.

I thought Metalheads was well-made, but I could have used a little more backstory/explanation. Is this a Skynet world?

Hang the DJ was pretty cool.

Surprised Black Mirror hasn't done the VR world hell idea, a la Iain Banks' Surface Detail...