the promo clips for new episodes are out there
apparently one of the episodes stars Andrew Scott and has was scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto!
― mh, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:58 (five years ago) link
I watched the first one. It really didn't need to be an hour long, and the conclusion wasn't very interesting either. Neither was the main dude. Quite glad that it didn't go down the violent route I was expecting I guess.
― kinder, Thursday, 6 June 2019 12:50 (five years ago) link
If this is the Andrew Scott one, that’s the one I haven’t seen yet!Striking Vipers - incredible cast, quite strange. I personally liked it because it tapped into several of my likes (fighting games! fucked up friendships! the role of fantasy!) but I’m not sure that it’s going to be that popular. Has a line that made me shriek irl though.Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too - also quite weird but Miley is actually great in it even if it’s drawing very heavily from irl experience (possibly just me projecting though). Story isn’t hugely original or anything but I loved the song choices (NIN covers reworked with input from TRez) and also the constant mouse references are a bit on the nose? Really liked this one even if it was a bit insubstantial.
― gyac, Thursday, 6 June 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
I'd assume the order's the same across regions with Fighting Vipers being the first
― mh, Thursday, 6 June 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
Yeah sorry I meant Stiking VipersWhat line did you mean?
― kinder, Thursday, 6 June 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
The polar bear one.
― gyac, Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
Much like every other Black Mirror, I quite enjoyed these but they were all insubstantial and far too DO YOU SEE.
I didn't guess the route the Striking Vipers one was going to go in, but so far so predictable.
The Andrew Scott one was basically all about delivering that monologue but the plot was obvious as soon as you knew why he was at the help group.
Halfway through the Miley one and the highlight so far has been a framed Sugar Ape cover on her agent's wall.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Saturday, 8 June 2019 10:48 (five years ago) link
Striking Vipers is easily the best of the new batch but that's not really saying much. As usual they start off quite interesting and don't really go anywhere. Miley Cyrus is really good in the Miley Cyrus one but it ultimately boils down to a middle aged white dude's idea of musical authenticity
― or something, Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:35 (five years ago) link
oh manhttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jun/07/black-mirror-miley-cyrus-rachel-jack-ashley-tooso uh, this reviewer has some decent comments on the plot but completely missed the central running joke that all of the music is Nine Inch Nails songs, with the pop star versions having cheery lyrics. cringing and giggling over here
The Cyrus we meet at the start of the episode makes manufactured pop that’s slick, well-made, personal (her lyrics come directly from her dream diary) and popular. She is very, very good at this. But by the end she has become, for want of a better word, Nickelback. She starts shouting very bad, very witless, completely anonymous grunge-lite songs back to back with her bassist (who has a nose ring, because attitude). She’s happy, but only because she’s adopted a hard shell of “authenticity” that’s arguably even more constrictive than her former persona.
― mh, Sunday, 9 June 2019 01:48 (five years ago) link
I actually thought they were going to start having video game sex in all the different characters to really prove the TRUE LOVE, so I was disappointed by the polar bear throwaway.
― Yerac, Sunday, 9 June 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link
we were denied the polar bear fucking we deserve
― mh, Sunday, 9 June 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
her bassist (who has a nose ring, because attitude) also seems to have missed that "her bassist" was Jack
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 9 June 2019 09:44 (five years ago) link
grafting an entire review on to a templates premise of rockism and misplaced adherence to authenticity, completely failing to notice it’s just all nin coverskind of beautiful
― mh, Sunday, 9 June 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
Moral of Striking Vipers: Video games make you gay
― akm, Sunday, 9 June 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
otm
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 June 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
not a furry though, apparentlyexcept for maybe whoever was fucking people as a polar bear
― mh, Sunday, 9 June 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
polar bears have had a rough decade.
The Miley Cyrus one was fine. It should've been a lot shorter. The drag was apparent when it hit the Alexa comes to life bit.
― Yerac, Sunday, 9 June 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
I didn't read that Guardian article because of the choice of shirt he chose for his writer pic.
― Yerac, Sunday, 9 June 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
I thought the robot was one of the best parts and, although a total rehash of prior episodes trapping a consciousness in a machine, was actually fleshed out
― mh, Sunday, 9 June 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
It was, it just highlighted how meandering the first part was. When the robot came to life all of a sudden it was a different episode with a different vibe with odd adults are stupid hijinks.
― Yerac, Sunday, 9 June 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
too many undercooked plot segmentswas most disappointed by Smithereens, all we got was some good Andrew Scott emoting and a too-generous portrayal of a Jack Dorsey type by Topher Grace
― mh, Sunday, 9 June 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
I dunno, just because the guardian guy may not be a big NIN fan and didn't get the in-joke doesn't mean he hasn't got a valid point that the episode denouement felt a bit rockist
― or something, Sunday, 9 June 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
Not that I can be particularly arsed to defend a guardian culture journo
― or something, Sunday, 9 June 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
he praised the other lyrics in the episode which were: a cover of another NIN song, and a nonsense version of “head like a hole” with funny lyrics written by Bookeryou could make the argument for it being rockist or w/e but it really feels like a template being applied by a guy who has read a lot about music criticism but hasn’t a lot of interest in listening to music
― mh, Sunday, 9 June 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't dispute your latter point
― or something, Sunday, 9 June 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
i should buy the t-shirt thoughwish it didn’t say “black mirror” on there, though. kind of gives the game awayhttps://store.nin.com/products/head-like-a-hole-x-black-mirror-tee
― mh, Sunday, 9 June 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
Brooker doesn't come across as someone who's that into music either tbh xp
― or something, Sunday, 9 June 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
tbf he’s had a lot of good people working on the soundtrack for this series with mixed resultsit’s kind of turned into a soundtrack/actor/location showcase with the plots being a real mixed bag
― mh, Sunday, 9 June 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
Idk I didn’t think the episode applied a rockist judgement to the music? Ashley O was still writing all those songs but she wasn’t being coerced by medication into producing stuff that wasn’t how she felt anymore? I didn’t feel that it judged pop more negatively.
― gyac, Sunday, 9 June 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link
trent reznor is a rockism victim. made dark but poppy synthesizer album and was bullied into incorporating more guitars throughout the entire 90s!!also there’s that elephant in the room which is miley cyrus’s entire musical career where she was a disney pop kid? idk, lots of unexplored angles in journalism, anyone wanting to write a little can have these tips for free
― mh, Sunday, 9 June 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Sunday, 9 June 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link
Topher Grace just sitting on top of a big old hill in the desert
― mh, Sunday, 9 June 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
I file NiN under “things I just don’t care about”
― calstars, Sunday, 9 June 2019 23:17 (five years ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Sunday, 9 June 2019 23:20 (five years ago) link
Reznor getting his first No. 1 with "Old Town Road" is the best Black Mirror episode.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 9 June 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
lol
― calstars, Sunday, 9 June 2019 23:27 (five years ago) link
xxp lol i’ve got to start using the sarcasm tag again i guess
― mh, Monday, 10 June 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link
had enough of this show. all these episodes are too fucking long
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
what if ye phone was ye mum
― boobie, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
what if ya bruv was a hot and horny chun li type
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
I find myself very anti-Topher Grace so I will probably not watch that episode.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
he's fine in it! no aggravated vocal mannerisms or anything
― mh, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
That ep was bad and hated but I liked it and felt the denouement was great
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
I thought it was fine, it was just a half gallon of plot in a five gallon bucket
― mh, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
Really dug the Miley episode, with so much packed into an hour and such a satisfying final 15 minutes.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 18 July 2019 06:31 (four years ago) link
#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.
― speaking moistly (Sanpaku), Thursday, 7 May 2020 07:01 (four years ago) link
my friend messaged me asking if that means Brooker can bring back Nathan Barley instead
― mh, Thursday, 7 May 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
not bleak anymore, then?
https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/black-mirror-season-6-netflix-1235266891/
― StanM, Monday, 16 May 2022 14:41 (two years ago) link
Season 6 trailer is out!
15 June will be a fever dream. pic.twitter.com/XcGN12FP1z— Black Mirror (@blackmirror) May 31, 2023
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link
Can't believe it's been a decade
Always liked this show but man are they slow to release episodes
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link