Charlie Brooker's BLACK MIRROR

xpost I almost brought up how a lot of episodes remind of Until the End of the World because of the "soundtrack/actor/location showcase." The videogame episode in Brazil was disconcerting.

Topher Grace just sitting on top of a big old hill in the desert

I file NiN under “things I just don’t care about”

Idk if Reznor was really “bullied” into adding guitars in the 90s.

I’ve only seen the Vipers ep of the first season and if that’s the high point I’m worried about the rest.

Reznor getting his first No. 1 with "Old Town Road" is the best Black Mirror episode.

lol

xxp lol i’ve got to start using the sarcasm tag again i guess

had enough of this show. all these episodes are too fucking long

what if ye phone was ye mum

what if ya bruv was a hot and horny chun li type

I find myself very anti-Topher Grace so I will probably not watch that episode.

he's fine in it! no aggravated vocal mannerisms or anything

That ep was bad and hated but I liked it and felt the denouement was great

I thought it was fine, it was just a half gallon of plot in a five gallon bucket

Really dug the Miley episode, with so much packed into an hour and such a satisfying final 15 minutes.

#BlackMirror Creator Says the World Is Too Bleak Right Now for Season 6 https://t.co/ix0l7uFUkX pic.twitter.com/qAswxYknU5

— IndieWire (@IndieWire) May 6, 2020

TBH, I'd rather see a Philomena Cunk Moments of Wonder segment devoted to epidemiology.

my friend messaged me asking if that means Brooker can bring back Nathan Barley instead

not bleak anymore, then?

https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/black-mirror-season-6-netflix-1235266891/

Season 6 trailer is out!

15 June will be a fever dream. pic.twitter.com/XcGN12FP1z

— Black Mirror (@blackmirror) May 31, 2023

Can't believe it's been a decade

Always liked this show but man are they slow to release episodes

*steels self for trailer*

*has to admit that this new season looks pretty dope after the show kinda fell off before the hiatus*

One of these episodes features… David Shields?!? Which seems appropriate.

Interesting angle, two episodes into this season. (It’s an angle they played with a bit before, but they’re leaning harder into it.)

First episode is terrible, second is fucking traumatising wtf

Probably the most fucked up since Shut Up and Dance

Demon 79 is the only good one imo and Anjana Vasan is superb in it.

Beyond the Sea was so dull I can't even remember what happened at the end of it.

The second episode was so good (and yes, emotionally brutal) that it enters the “best Black Mirror episodes) conversation. They haven’t fucked with me like that in a while.

I’m only partway through Beyond The Sea so no comment on that one yet.

It’s not the twist itself, it’s the absolute calm that one character with full knowledge of the events relates them back, and on the other hand the other person with a partial understanding of it is a complete shell. The way Pia moves from being a real person to a face on the screen, distant and unreal. It’s so great but it was a lot.

it reminded me of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in the sense that I didn't enjoy anything about it and feel like I'd have felt better if I hadn't watched it.

Weirdly, this is one of those shows where many of the best episodes are episodes I could never watch again or recommend in good conscience to people who would never watch Black Mirror or emotionally/psychologically harsh films or shows.

Example: White Deer.

xp otm

The fictive stuff in Joan Is Awful reminded me very much of The Invisibles towards the end but the execution was terrible. Like I got what they were going for, but no.

Beyond the Sea was slow but good, I wouldn’t call it boring! You can see what’s going to happen a mile away when David’s a little too interested in Lana being bored in the country, and obviously I love some good 2001 references. The pace of it reflects the whole horror of it, being helpless to do anything in a tragedy because of distance, either physical or emotional. Incredibly bleak ending, even for this series.

demon 79 was bad

I enjoyed the unshamed puerility of "Joan is Awful", it felt like the closest Black Mirror has gotten to a TV Go Home listing. But, yeah, it was maybe slightly too silly.

Also enjoyed "Loch Henry" but you could see the twist coming from a mile away esp. because of the meta casting (unless that was the point). The pub owner's son was very funny. But I don't think it ratcheted up the tension quite as tightly as it could've.

“Joan is Awful” was good. “Demon 79” was really good. Haven’t seen the others yet.

what is you were turned into a computer and tortured forever

makes u think

E3 is somehow heavier than E2, though I prefer E2. E4 is shaping up to be very strong.

I kind of wish this season were 100% parasitic/morally fried Hollywood bullshit, but that would wear out its welcome.

Come baby come baby baby come come

I’ll never hear that song the same way again

Seriously. I can't get that moment out of my head now

Calz is right, demon 79 is the best one. As a millennial who grew up in the tmz era, I should have loved e4, but it was the most forgettable.

I liked the idea of e4 a lot but it was lacking … something.

I found Demon 79 the most emotive episode and appreciated the lols with the graphic violence and Anjana Vasan's performance as a "corruptible" downtrodden good person was just perfect.

It was totally great, I was so sold on the ending after the last one was prevented from happening. I suspect you felt the same, calz!

you only had to smash a fucking fascist tory cnut in the heed with a claw hammer!