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Slightly disappointed they've not retained the Red Mirror idea from last series, since it saved the show from using "hey, but what if the human mind is just software!" too often. Stealing Rarity's ranking format: 6. Bête Noire - Maybe if it hadn't come straight after another episode with a glibly cruel and remorseless antagonist I'd have liked it better. 5. Common People - Just too brutal. Socially relevant, says something that should be said about the state of healthcare and enshittification, but left me feeling gutpunched in the same way Lars Von Trier films do. I acknowledge its quality but did not enjoy it. 4. Hotel Reverie - Quantum Leap/Pleasantville/Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid all rolled together; a lot of care taken to replicate the lighting/costuming/set design of a golden age movie, but with anachronisms like modern camera movements and quick edits becoming increasingly used as things stray away from the original film. The story itself - meh, but I enjoyed the technical aspects 3. Plaything - Nailed the look of the period (something Black Mirror always does really well), and at least did something a bit different with the mind=software thing. 2. USS Callister: Into Infinity - Fun, the most comedic of the bunch, looked great and I need more of Jimmi Simpson being a strangely charismatic shitheel in my life. Though thinking about a half dozen minds simultaneously running on one brain upsets me. 1. Eulogy - I'm probably rating this so highly because it resonated personally with me, and I'm a sucker for stories where people are slowly piecing together a mystery they didn't even realise existed. Brutal, but in a bittersweet "sometimes life goes down the wrong path without anyone being to blame" way rather than "life gets dragged down the wrong path by sociopathic corps trying to maximise profits" way. And how a devastating answer can at least give you peace from perpetual hypothesising. E: gently caress, Black Mirror really seems to set off some polysyllabic pretentiousness thing in me for some reason. 1 fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Apr 11, 2025 |
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