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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jul 28, 2016 18:39:29 GMT -5
And it's going straight on Netflix. linkIt's got some pretty good actors and directors lined up too. Anyone else a fan? I've enjoyed all of the episodes so far (except maybe The Waldo Moment). And you can discuss the particular episode but not the allegations that surfaced last year about a certain Prime Minister and a pig. |
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jul 28, 2016 18:53:33 GMT -5
Awesome.
I loved the White Bear episode... For a minute I thought the twist was a cop out. But then the ending turned it around.
"You should enjoy this... You shot it."
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jul 28, 2016 18:58:11 GMT -5
Awesome. I loved the White Bear episode... For a minute I thought the twist was a cop out. But then the ending turned it around. "You should enjoy this... You shot it." White Bear is probably my favourite episode of it. I never saw that ending coming. (Plus it had Tuppence Middleton in it and she's beautiful.) |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jul 29, 2016 9:58:49 GMT -5
Oh good it's Netflix over here too!
Charlie Brooker is an enormous influence on my life and I do love Black Mirror even though it kinda sucks that it's so nihilistic.
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Post by BatPunk on Jul 30, 2016 0:21:24 GMT -5
This show is amazing. Really happy that Netflix were able to get this as its really hard to find otherwise.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jul 30, 2016 10:26:12 GMT -5
I actually just watched the first ever episode. It was well made, but what a way to start a series! It makes it really tough to suggest it to friends since they'll be like, "Yep, that's the guy who suggested a show about pig f***ing to me."
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 6, 2016 15:18:18 GMT -5
Just finished watching up to season 3 and am excited for even more episodes in October  Anyway, how would you rank them so far? I'd go... Fifteen Million Merits: Loved the fantasy world of this one White Christmas: Ditto, plus it's nearly movie length Be Right Back: The one that reminds me most of a vintage Twilight Zone episode The Waldo Moment: A nice balance of a grim future with some bits of levity White Bear: Interesting ending, but the rest of the episode seems pointless and disconnected from it The National Anthem: Great job at building suspense, but the overall concept is a little silly and a weird way to start the series The Entire History of You: Not a bad futuristic concept, but just the weakest so far |
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Aug 6, 2016 15:33:36 GMT -5
Just finished watching up to season 3 and am excited for even more episodes in October Anyway, how would you rank them so far? I'd go... Fifteen Million Merits: Loved the fantasy world of this one White Christmas: Ditto, plus it's nearly movie length Be Right Back: The one that reminds me most of a vintage Twilight Zone episode The Waldo Moment: A nice balance of a grim future with some bits of levity White Bear: Interesting ending, but the rest of the episode seems pointless and disconnected from it The National Anthem: Great job at building suspense, but the overall concept is a little silly and a weird way to start the series The Entire History of You: Not a bad futuristic concept, but just the weakest so far The option to make a film of The Entire History of You has been bought by (IIRC) Robert Downey Jr. I love the concept of that and would like to see a full-length film of it but I'd still rank that episode as one of the top three. |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 6, 2016 15:36:39 GMT -5
Just finished watching up to season 3 and am excited for even more episodes in October Anyway, how would you rank them so far? I'd go... Fifteen Million Merits: Loved the fantasy world of this one White Christmas: Ditto, plus it's nearly movie length Be Right Back: The one that reminds me most of a vintage Twilight Zone episode The Waldo Moment: A nice balance of a grim future with some bits of levity White Bear: Interesting ending, but the rest of the episode seems pointless and disconnected from it The National Anthem: Great job at building suspense, but the overall concept is a little silly and a weird way to start the series The Entire History of You: Not a bad futuristic concept, but just the weakest so far The option to make a film of The Entire History of You has been bought by (IIRC) Robert Downey Jr. I love the concept of that and would like to see a full-length film of it but I'd still rank that episode as one of the top three. Haha I remember seeing that on Wiki. Not one of my favorites (obviously), but it had some neat bits. I'm curious which episodes did you like better? Also, what's you think was the worst? |
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Aug 6, 2016 15:39:17 GMT -5
The option to make a film of The Entire History of You has been bought by (IIRC) Robert Downey Jr. I love the concept of that and would like to see a full-length film of it but I'd still rank that episode as one of the top three. Haha I remember seeing that on Wiki. Not one of my favorites, but it had some neat beats. I'm curious which episodes did you like better? Also, what's you think was the worst? I actually mentioned it earlier in the thread. White Bear is my favourite, The Waldo Moment is my least favourite. I'm not sure I'd be able to rank them other than those two as I really like all the others. |
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Oct 21, 2016 8:29:42 GMT -5
The new episodes are now up on Netflix here in the U.K.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Oct 27, 2016 17:43:35 GMT -5
Almost finished this season, just one episode left. Tough to rank them as there's a good range. I really liked San Junipero though as it's pretty different compared to the rest of the season (not that the rest is bad).
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Post by BRV on Oct 29, 2016 20:51:55 GMT -5
I just finished the third season and I'll rank the entire series: {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}1. White Christmas - This might honestly be the most perfect episode of dramatic television ever produced. In my eyes, it's absolutely flawless. It's a great series of stories that become perfectly intertwined with three great lead actors and one of the most grim endings imaginable for all involved. One of my biggest critiques of the first two seasons of "Black Mirror" was that every episode ended with me wanting to chug a gallon of bleach (which you'll soon find ironic given my biggest criticism of the third season), but this was the most notable exception for how perfectly dark the ending is.
2. Fifteen Million Merits - For what it's worth, you could put my no. 2 through 4 rankings in a hat and pull them out in any order and I'd be fine with the ranking. What I liked about this episode was how in a matter of about 40 minutes, they built, developed, and crushed a relationship in way that most series can do in multiple seasons. I didn't love the ending because it felt like the Bing character was betraying everything he stood for just to get a glimpse of fame and fortune, but I guess that's the story they were trying to tell.
3. The National Anthem - It's already been mentioned in this thread, but when I recommend "Black Mirror", it's hard to explain this episode without coming across like some kind of pervert. But for a story about the prime minister having to have sexual intercourse with a pig, it's brilliantly told and brutally unflinching. It comes across as a bit overhanded in its messaging at the end, but you can ignore that for how solid the episode is.
4. Be Right Back - Much like "Fifteen Million Merits", this episode tells a great love story, but does so with an obviously dark twist. It's a perfect play on the old fable of "be careful what you wish for..." and the ending is so brutal that they somehow decided having a couple leap from a cliff would have been the more pleasant conclusion.
5. The Waldo Moment - I'm not going to get into the details of how this could be considered an allegory for modern-day politics. Frankly, I didn't like this episode for its politics, I thought it told the story of the clown perfectly - all smiles and laughter on the outside but pain on the inside. And when he finds that brief, fleeting moment of happiness, it's summarily squashed moments later, sending him spiraling.
6. Shut Up and Dance - By far the best episode of the third season. It's dark and unnerving and all the while you're wondering why the teen doesn't just let his anonymous foes post the video online, because the punishment he endures over the course of the episode feels so much worse. And then you get the "ohhhh that's why" moment at the ending. Great, dark stuff.
7. White Bear - It's a phenomenal twist ending but before that comes, it's just sort of your run-of-the-mill escape from captors/hunters horror-thriller. Again, by no means is it bad, it's just that a good episode becomes great due almost exclusively to the out-of-nowhere twist.
8. Playtest - Most of "Black Mirror" is science fiction or drama or satire, but this is the first and only installment that felt like genuine horror. It would probably be a really good 90-minute feature length movie, which would allow us a little more character development, but it's good for what it is. Personally, I think the ending of him returning home to a mother who doesn't recognize him would have made for a better ending than the ending we got, but you can't win 'em all.
9. The Entire History of You - It's just OK, but it's really just a prolonged breakup story with some futuristic tweaks. It's the least impressive of seasons 1 and 2 but compared to the final three on my list, it feels like a revelation.
10. Men Against Fire - Take "District 9", sprinkle in a bit of "Avatar", mix it up in a blender and you've got this one. It's actually somewhat forgettable, considering as I was assembling my list, I was like, "I know I forgot one, but I can't remember which one it is..." and that's really all you need to know about how I felt.
11. Nosedive - An incredible first half sunk to the bottom of the river by a terrible final 30 minutes. It's a great story that feels realistic - that our own social media rankings will soon be more important than our actual interpersonal interactions - but from the moment she has that "guardian angel" moment with the truck driver, it spirals. The ending is so phony and saccharine that I expected her to wake up in a furniture store next to Bruce Willis in a rabbit costume. Yes, the message that we should be more honest and less phony and less devoted to our phones and tablets and computers is an important one, but man they forced that message down your throat with a freaking funnel in this one.
12. Hated in the Nation - For the longest episode of "Black Mirror", at nearly 90 minutes, I expected a lot more. The idea is great, I just wish they dedicated it singularly to the deaths of the columnist and rapper and our outrage/shaming culture and less about the technological aspects of it. I mean, I guess if I can take "The Birds" seriously, I can take computerized honeybees seriously too, but it felt like a two-part "very special episode" of Law & Order.
13. San Junipero - Just, ugh, where do I begin? Yes, my biggest complaint about the first two seasons of "Black Mirror" were how grim and depressing everything was, but this is the total opposite of that. The ending of this episode, with them cruising around in a convertible to "Heaven is a Place on Earth" is so obnoxiously saccharine that I'm surprised Katherine Heigl hasn't purchased the rights to the story to convert into a terrible rom-com. The only time my ears perked up in this episode were when they started dabbling in time travel, but that could only be so fascinating before I was lulled back to sleep by everything else. It also spits in its own face, with the woman dramatically and painfully explaining how she had a 49-year marriage and what that meant to her and her late husband and her late daughter, and then at the very end she's just like, "Nah, I'd rather hang out on the beach with that girl I knew for a month." |
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Post by Legion on Oct 30, 2016 12:08:05 GMT -5
I've seen them all now.
Really didnt care for the twist in episode 2, guessed the twist of episode 3 within the first 5 minutes which ruined it for me, didnt care at all for episode 5, again guessed the twist and on top of that it was just a bit unoriginal.
Loved the other 3 episodes though, even the out of place episode 4, and most of 2 until the end. So really just episode 5 I didnt like.
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Anyway, how would you rank them so far?
