Can’t have that anymore because of woke
Of season 4 I only saw the Jesse Plemons, neonazi from breaking bad, die in the game die IRL one. If there are any after that worth watching I’d like to know.
White Bear
I also found that episode weird.
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Like… what’s the whole premise behind this show? I get “the message” about social media allowing people to get off on punishing people, and how it’s pretty sadistic even when the people deserve it. But who the fuck would pay to go to a park to mildly harass a woman who doesn’t even recall the awful crime she committed? For most of the whole affair the lady is out in the woods and none of the cell phone gawkers could even see her. Who designed this weird ass scenario? What’s the point? Wouldn’t it just be more efficient to just torture her to death on live TV or something?
Like I got the concept but I found the details were really weird and I spent more time thinking about that than the message.
Once again the very clear message of “British people are inhuman monsters who delight in the suffering of minorities” is squandered on deaf ears
I don’t think it’s meant to be realistic. It’s more of a surrealistic take on the bystander effect.
I could never get into Black Mirror because every episode felt like a poorly edited pilot, where the actors weren’t into their roles yet and never would be since it was a one-off and they’d stretch like at most 15 minutes of story out into an hour of not particularly good filler that went on way too long. Like I felt like Love, Death, + Robots and Black Mirror were functionally the same thing and both had about the same amount of story and content per episode, but where LD+R trimmed it a little too tight Black Mirror would just keep going and going without anything there.
You might find Inside No. 9 a better anthology series to watch. Less “wot if your phone was evil” and more surrealist cross-genre drama. It has a consistent cast and while one or two episodes are weak, overall it’s quite enjoyable.
Yeah there’s a clear drop in overall quality and curiosity between the original Channel 4 run and the Netflix episodes.
Season 1 and 2 + the Xmas Special are solid gold. It was a straight BBC joint then.
The themes and direction were clear and the show did what it set out to do. I enjoyed that. There are plenty of fair criticisms of the show, but pre-Netflix-collaboration Black Mirror has to stand alone.
Yeah, suddenly it’s palid and has no bite.
