Black Mirror (Channel 4, Netflix) TV Show • Page 54

First episode is awful, felt like it had all the subtlety of someone throwing a brick through your window. They really spoon-fed the concept to the audience. Second episode was much better.

 

First ep was fun. I’ve never thought of this show as “good” or thought-provoking or whatever. I just want a fun twilight zone type thing!

 

Episode 1 is in line with all BM episodes and Annie and Selma make it fun. Also Michael Cera bit was neat.

 

Oh wow damn Loch Henry is up there with some of the better episodes Jfc

 

2nd episode was really good

 

I disagree and think when the show is at its best its good and thought provoking and wouldn’t bother replying because to each their own but damn I can’t let the shot at the twilight zone go how dare you

 

Fair lol twilight zone at its best >>>>> this show at its best

 

Really liked the first episode, very fun.

 

This show was excellent in the first two seasons. I'm always surprised when people say that it was "never that good." Maybe it's "uncool" to say now, or the show overstayed its welcome, but damn I remember my first watches of those early episodes and it'd be a lie to say my mind wasn't blown into outer fkn space.

 

I’d say the first 3 seasons are great and then episodes vary from there.

 

First couple seasons are definitely top tier tv

 

first episode of this season was not good

 

Dang the first episode is certainly polarizing. Excited to check it out

 

I absolutely love most of the first three seasons and a few from season 4 too. Season 5 is the only real weak one.

Episode 2 of the new season was solid but not super interesting.

 

Episode 2 was really good but didn’t really feel like a black mirror episode.

 

I've never seen anything of this beyond the first season, but the second episode of that season was the bleakest thing I've ever seen in my life and it haunted me for a while afterward.

 

I keep seeing this on twitter and Reddit and I disagree. Imo it’s a really great episode on true crime content and how the real victims and families are just commodities for peoples morbid curiosities. I mean at the end one of his lifelong friends is cheering for the documentary that was about how his parents committed these horrible acts and people at the pub were wearing his moms mask during the watch party. people were dressing their kids up as Dahmer last Halloween after the Netflix series came out at the same time the families of the victims were saying how exploitative and fucked up the series was. The twist is on par with Shut Up and Dance for me.

 

that’s fair but that happens in our world now without any weird technology crap that black mirror usually includes.

 

The video tapes/filmmaking is the technology part, it doesn't necessarily have to be future based. I think it fits.

 

For sure but great episodes like Shut Up and Dance and White Bear (outside the mind wipe) also don’t have a big tech focus either. I think the show can do both the “wut if ya mum ran on batteries” episodes and the self reflection on culture episodes well, I’m not always expecting a big tech focus in every episode.

 

Shut Up and Dance fits with the webcam recording as blackmail. It's more about a reflection on how we a culture could potentially use these things than the things themselves.

 

The very first episode of the show also only contained current technology

 

Episode 3 is a solid idea but my god this is so long and I still have a half hour left.

 

Lol wtf is this Mazey Day one?

 

yeah Mazey Day is a v bad episode