Black Mirror (Channel 4, Netflix) TV Show • Page 59

Dropped

 

Common People is good. Great satire of the commidifaction of healthcare and the ramifications if has on the working class. For those look looking for a more traditional classic Black Mirror feeling episode this season, this is the one to watch.

 

Eulogy blew me away. Giamatti is getting that fucking Emmy. Incredible performance. Felt almost like a really great heartfelt play, in that it felt kind of small in scale and relied heavily on quality acting and dialogue. The best acting performance in Black Mirror history.

Also Emma Corrin is probably getting at least a nom for Hotel Reverie. Her performance made that episode. Wasn't big on some of the other performances in that episode, but she carried it.

 

Done. My ranking

1. Eulogy
2. USS Callister: Into Infinity
3. Common People
4. Hotel Reverie
5. Plaything
6. Bete Noire

Into Infinity was better than the original Callister. Very funny and entertaining. Milotti always great. Jimmi Simpson needs to be cast as the lead in a comedy series.

Overall best BM season since season 4 in 2017. Definitely thought it was better than the last two.

 

Hopefully I can get to all of these over the next week or two.

 

Luckily I woke up early and am free today and decided to binge it to start my day.

 

Also the USS Callister sequel is almost 2 hours long. It's basically a movie, but thankfully it definitely feels like one. The most cinematic and commercial feeling Black Mirror episode to date. Almost felt like Charlie Brooker's pitch to Hollywood to get him to make a blockbuster.

 

Glad to hear it's an improvement from the last two seasons

 

very interesting

 

I thought the ending of Bete Noire was pretty bad

 

anything I need to remember about the OG Callister before I jump into the new one?

 

Nah. Bunch of flashbacks. They'll remind you about what you need to know.

 

watching this one now and I just dislike it entirely

 

The weakest episode of this batch imo

 

I thought Common People was great. My favourite episode in a long while.

 

Common People was depressing as fuck. Jesus Christ.

 

Bete Noire was dumb but kinda of fun until the very very end. Then it was just dumb.

 

Episode 1
What if yer mum was a streaming service

 

Re Common People, surely you could just use Rivermind Lux to turn yourself into a super high-level athlete/musician/camgirl/etc. and become rich almost overnight, no? Get loopholed, nerds.

 

I appreciate the themes behind episode 1 but it just wasn’t a very good watch. Once it got going it was oddly predictable for a black mirror, scene after scene. Still happy to have more of this show though

 

Really liked Hotel Reverie, very fun episode.

 

I am not enjoying Hotel Reverie and might skip the rest of it

 

Emma Corrin's performance gets really good near the backhalf. That episode might have completely sucked it if wasn't for her.

 

I’ll come back to it later. Just was bored by it. I did enjoy plaything though.