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Just finished the latest batch and it felt very, low? I know they wanted to steer away from the "technology is terrible" stereotype of the series, but it felt like Black Tape: From The Files of Black Mirror. My favorite was episode 1, mostly for the Selma Hayek recreations, and the Rowdy & Peanut cameo in the fake Netflix. Followed by Demon 79, which is a great character downturn.
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Going through my rankings 6) USS Callister - Loved the sequel, loved the follow up with the characters, but it just felt like it went on a little too long. Really loved the Real Housewives cameo. 5) Bête Noire - Didn't feel Black Mirror, but rather a Twilight Zone episode, not enough "modern day"/"tech" issues. really did like the Barnies/Bernie's switcheroo for the audience you get a coinflip 4) Plaything - What if Tomagachi, but too much. I really enjoyed the finale and this "up to interpretation" that we got world peace, or just death. Capaldi delivered great monologues and you felt bad for the Journalist. 3) Common People - An absolute downer, some of the foreshadowing was very obvious, when it came to Dumb and the Crib. you really wanted a happy ended, but it just became more and more depressing, a lesson in healthcare, capitalism, and subscription and phone services. the most cruel episode of Black Mirror ever made. 2) Eulogy - This is my new "go to" episode for people to get into Black Mirror. it's not scary, it's not that devastating, it's a simple one man play (technically two) where it's Paul Giamatti wanting to forget about somebody he loved, and slowly learning the truth about the Cello playing girlfriend. Go with this one before you pick something like Common People. (This should be #1) 1) Hotel Reverie - I was getting that San Junipero parallels with the love story. Absolutely a story about hidden romance, and while it is still a sinister AI/Deepfake story, it is also one of the few Black Mirror episodes that didn't have such a depressing ending, you got the hint the Dorothy killed herself because she was gay and was never able to be herself, and the parallel with Brandy and her modern love life. they still found each other, even if it's just a simulation EDIT: I do think they should make a Red Mirror spinoff series though, only because I'm getting tired of the Easter Eggs, the Bandersnatch Logo, the use of the little button next to your temple
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Apr 11, 2025 23:10
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Pablo Bluth posted:In Plaything, the computer magazine being called PC Zone is a reference to where Charlie Brooker worked before he made it in to TV and did such works as Lara Croft Cruelty Zoo I was trying to figure out if the Editor was the Charlie Brooker stand-in, or if it was the background people playing Doom. It needed somebody reading a letter and getting deeply caustic
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Apr 11, 2025 23:57
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Euology - if this was a normal black mirror episode, we would be having the episode in the perspective of the step daughter, trying to put the pieces together of a broken family, as the only info we got was - she's an only child raised by a single mom, who still worked in the Orchestra on the Cello, and was brought up to continue the mom's legacy. as we don't really know what happens with the into, other than it probably goes into the step daughters brain, your black mirror twist of bag incidents and horrible moments, leads to this. instead, by making it about "Phil", who doesn't want to go to the funeral, and doesn't want to see anything about her, and not wanting to go back to these moments, but reliving them, it's a tragedy of "these lovely people could've fixed it, but they didn't" Non-Spoiler:: I'm still very tired of stories involving the button on your temple. I'm waiting for the origin story of this technology and the Frankenstein horror show it created, and the Business Dipshit that profited anyway.
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