Charlie Brooker's BLACK MIRROR

I didn't really like the American idol concept one, except for the vending machine graphic when he bought an apple of "People who purchased your item, also liked [banana pic]"

I don't think I often see such varied opinion on which episodes were best or worst. For me, the one with the recorded memories dragged the most of all.

banana graphic def a hilight of that one

ok if I'd have known the first episode was "fortyfive minutes of guy being forced to fuck a pig" I wouldn't have watched it

I feel like we need a separate Black Mirror thread for people who want to discuss it instead of hate on it

caught this on a stopover in london. guardian ran two reviews, one disgusted three stars, one disgusted four stars. it sure was uncomfortable. but if you liked Black Mirror!

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/mar/08/game-review-mike-bartlett-voyeurs-audience

was the first episode directed by banksy? does this get better?

1st ep is a series lowpoint IMO but maybe it has extra appeal if you're english c.2012? -- I was told not to bother with it & went straight to S1E2 "Fifteen Million Merits" -- sorry I couldn't warn you in time

series lowpoint IMO

correct

was the first episode directed by banksy?

basically, yeah

e01 reads like an extended dramatisation of one of brooker's one-liners. didn't really merit being made into a whole episode.

dayo the only ones really worth watching are s01e03 s02e01 and the christmas special. and even those have an annoying DO U SEE? quality

Charlie Brooker has an annoying DO U SEE? quality.

i liked S01E02 but it was sentimental in a Christmassy way that might not work in summer.

thank you all, yeah the DO U SEE quality was very bad

i will put all of this into the calculus of whether or not i continue *watches anime forever*

don't bother it's waste

otm

e01 reads like an extended dramatisation of one of brooker's one-liners.

oh yeah - it really feels like a TVGH entry stretched to 45 mins

S01E02 is pretty good but yeah, I find Brooker a bit annoying these days.

I find this show an enjoyable take on a culture that isn't quite my own. Probably would dislike it as overcooked if I was actually in the UK. But who knows?

reminder that Jesse Armstrong wrote S01e03

what if phones, but too much

http://observer.com/2015/09/netflix-to-produce-original-episodes-of-black-mirror/

The pig’s head, he claimed, had been resting on the lap of a Piers Gaveston society

not black mirror but close enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXX0TRtg5Vk

Just watched Ex Machina the other night, which reminded me a lot of Black Mirror in tone and content. Made me think this series is going to end up being pretty influential.

Interestingly, the lead actor in Ex Machina plays an AI robot in a Black Mirror episode.

Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories >>>> Black Mirror

✅

good stuff, forks.

finally got around to watching the holiday special

the ending was kind of next-level bleak and cruel! it was set up throughout the episode but was still a little more than expected

the very end of the waldo episode might be the best humorous extrapolation due to the simplicity of the staging

http://sfplayhouse.org/sfph/2015-2016-season/the-nether/

if you're in the bay area, this is running for another couple of weeks and I'd recommend it pretty strongly. it's darker than the darkest episode of Black Mirror, though; it's as if they'd done an episode version of <i>The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect</i>. I stuck around for the question and answer last night and my favorite comment was about the morality of letting an actual 12 year old female actress handle the part, and they said 'we checked with her parents and gave them a script rundown and where we were coming from with it, and they ended up letting her decide, saying "we'd prefer that you find out these things about the internet through a work of art instead of from the internet itself" '

new Netflix-only series from the 21st october...

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-10-02/when-is-black-mirror-on-netflix

ty for headsup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-vAp9n8rQc

New series is out. Have watched two of the six so far.

Nosedive, the popularity one with Bryce Dallas Howard, is light with touches of darkness. It's not something I'd watch again but it was well done and the ending made me smile.

Shut Up And Dance though...God. I never thought I'd feel physically sick after watching something, and this was after guessing the twist and the outcome. Incredibly well done, but if I could pay for my memory of the episode to be wiped, I would.

"Nosedive"....ooooof. Fifteen minutes in, Stepford Wives af.

I've been meaning to watch this for years, sort of saving up for a special occasion, because I like Charlie Brooker. But more to the point, whenever I see the title "Black Mirror" I sing it to the tune of Kiss's "Black Diamond."

I've little familiarity with Kiss but I like this show

The ending made me so happy

very, very glad I waited until I woke up this morning to watch "Playtest."

there are at least a couple episodes in the new batch that invoke pure terror!

i've only watched the final two episodes of the new one so far but the final ep really could have been a stand-alone horror movie. just really effective in its scares, atmosphere, etc. the second-to-last falls into the trap people complain about which is when the in-character speechifying about the actual theme of the episode starts we're in trouble.

So gyac - would you not recommend watching Shut Up And Dance? I mean the first episode of season 1 left me feeling pretty queasy.

Watched the first one last night...facile but fun

Seems they always err on the side of obviousness

So gyac - would you not recommend watching Shut Up And Dance? I mean the first episode of season 1 left me feeling pretty queasy.

Having watched all 6, I would rank them:

1) Hated In The Nation (despite some weak plot points)
2) Shut Up And Dance
3) Playtest
4) San Junipero
5) Nosedive
6) Men Against Fire (though it's not bad at all, and was pretty painful at times).

Also, the casting is incredible. Especially loved Gugu Mbatha-Raw in San Junipero and Kelly McDonald in Hated In The Nation.

hated Shut Up and Dance, lazy hyper-sadism for its own sake. interesting that the most rote "BM being BM" episode was actually written by other people ("Nosedive").

about to watch the sixth ep, so far "San Junipero" is the clear winner.