Charlie Brooker's BLACK MIRROR

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.

Thanks gyac!

I've watched the first 3 episodes. "Nosedive" is definitely the best so far

Just finished "San Junipero," which was probably the most feelgood episode of this show yet. I liked it a great deal. That's enough BM for me for one day, though.

That's a definite high note to pause your viewing on

I scanned summaries of the last two episodes and...yeah, I can't handle that tonight.

"San Junipero" > "Hated by the Nation" >> "Playtest" > "Nosedive" > "Men Against Fire" > "Shut Up and Dance"

"Playtest" is the only time this show has legit scared me, maybe because I have fears similar to what happens in the episode. Pretty wild episode. The main actor was pretty obnoxious in it tho

"Nosedive" my favorite of this season so far. Kind of another version of the points episode from season 1 so I could see people not liking it, but I felt it was really well thought out and BDH was great

I did like "Hated by the Nation" a fair amount, but it did drag a bit at a full 90 minutes, and there was a minor plot detail that bugged me.

They're all just a little bit too long, as if they were originally written to be shown with ads on Channel 4, but were then stretched to fill the slots on Netflix.

Which are the non-brookers?

(Could look it up myself but am spoiler phobic)

So spoilers-wise, should i watch all six episodes before reading this thread? i've only watched ep 1 so far, the typical BM criticism of one-idea-stretched-too-long and taking it in the obvious places, but i did LOL at the end when they [SPOILERS] hit rock bottom and become the comments section

only ep 1 has a teleplay not attributed to Brooker (iirc), and even then he gets a story credit