I thought we went over all that way back when
― mh, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 03:56 (six years ago) link
Ok I hadn't seen this before. Lol.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
Ahead of its time.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
I just watched season 1 episode 1.
"Jane...... please"
― Treeship, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
Episode 2 sucks
― Treeship, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
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 FosterWritten 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 McCarthyWritten By: Charlie Brooker
― flappy bird, Friday, 25 August 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
Teaser is out..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH85obU350E
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 August 2017 08:02 (six years ago) link
Premieres December 29thhttps://pitchfork.com/news/netflix-announces-black-mirror-season-4-premiere-date/
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
still excited for the possibility of a fidget spinner episode
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 7 December 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Thursday, 7 December 2017 02:50 (six years ago) link
josh az otm, massive own-goal if they do not feature
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 December 2017 10:52 (six years ago) link
let's do this then. Enjoying the first one so far.
― kinder, Friday, 29 December 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
[as a parent] fuck you brooker for putting that image in my head
― kinder, Friday, 29 December 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
I know EXACTLY what image
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 29 December 2017 22:38 (six years ago) link
I'm watching "Arkangel". Parents, please have a full glass of wine before you spin this one up.
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 29 December 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
Seriously, this is devastating stuff.
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 29 December 2017 22:42 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Friday, 29 December 2017 23:25 (six years ago) link
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.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 29 December 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
yes, it’s about a simulated world, just happens to be trek themed
― mh, Friday, 29 December 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
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.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 29 December 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link
"Crocodile" is bleak af
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 30 December 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
holy heck
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 30 December 2017 00:21 (six years ago) link
I don't really need any more from tv shows
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 30 December 2017 00:24 (six years ago) link
chekov’s pig
― mh, Saturday, 30 December 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Saturday, 30 December 2017 03:33 (six years ago) link
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.
― gyac, Saturday, 30 December 2017 12:25 (six years ago) link
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 know kore-eda (or something), Saturday, 30 December 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
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.
― trishyb, Saturday, 30 December 2017 22:17 (six years ago) link
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 know kore-eda (or something), Sunday, 31 December 2017 01:02 (six years ago) link
I did enjoy seeing my hometown used in Arkangel.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 31 December 2017 02:54 (six years ago) link
And as a dad of a three year old girl, the rest was a serious bummer.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 31 December 2017 03:24 (six years ago) link
I really enjoyed Metalhead. Short form escape story of the type Blomkamp’s being trying for but with more of a human touch
― mh, Monday, 1 January 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
only seen uss callister so far and (without spoiling anything) i don't understand why anyone would care about most of the principal characters
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 1 January 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
Ugh, this Black Museum episode is awful and boring. It better have a point.
― trishyb, Monday, 1 January 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
uss mcallister giving me the cat person vibes
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 1 January 2018 23:40 (six years ago) link
Black museum was rubbish "would you like your comatose wife to live inside your head?" "Yeah why not"
― i know kore-eda (or something), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 08:34 (six years ago) link
what if phones, but too much
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 09:58 (six years ago) link
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.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 11:05 (six years ago) link
https://78.media.tumblr.com/2846dda95be5efaa86f0a0826cec4cea/tumblr_p1te4jNIBK1vtwqhpo1_1280.jpg
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
Black Mirror S4 episode list :1. Cor Blimey, What If Facebook Likes Were The Only Way To Earn a Quid2. There Is An App That Can Download You, Well Scary Innit Bruv3. Me New Misses Is a Android And I Aint Bovvered4. 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.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
i fucking loved that episode. way more playful than they usually are (but still p dark at the same time).
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
I really like Black Mirror and I'm unafraid to say it
Also, jokes about the premise are fun
― mh, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
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 CallisterThe Arkangel tabletA bee from Hated In The NationA mention of "old people uploading to the cloud" i.e. San JuniperoThe embalmed(?) body of the artist from The National Anthemand 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.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
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me too
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
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...
― DJI, Thursday, 4 January 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
It's not the best episode but I'm surprised how negative the reception to black museum is. there's way too much going on in it and none of the individual stories in it would be strong on their own, but idk it was fun in how over-the-top it all was
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
I've only watched 3 so far - Crocodile was stunning (landscape etc) and not too bad as a straightforward drama (end bit was laughably eye-rolly). It winds me up no end how the 'technology' plots don't stand up to the slightest scrutiny, not even where ideas overlap. For example even in Arkangel, people avoid the single child with the implant because of 'spying' fears; yet in Crocodile every living being is potentially subject to being on the giving/receiving end of similar 'spying' with a device common enough to be used by insurance companies yet it's not really known about. Picking 'holes' obviously pointless to even start, but it's kind of frustrating how little effort's been put in to extend any idea beyond 'what if phones but too much'.
OK lol I take it back cos as I was typing this my laptop switched itself off
― kinder, Sunday, 7 January 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
I had more of a problem with the idea (in the first episode) that you could generate a simulated copy of someone's personality and memories from their DNA.
― DJI, Sunday, 7 January 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link