Charlie Brooker - Black Mirror

[Gorka]

Episode 4 - San Junipero

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It's not fair, anything with old people and death just breaks me 

 

[Gazz]

@Benji, I know you like cats and I know you like Black Mirror, so behold...

[MDK]

On 10/21/2016 at 23:44, Gazz said:

Episode one just depressed me at how close we are already to that reality.

2 stars

Fucking hell, Men against Fire. That one really got to me.

On 12/4/2011 at 23:01, King Ghidorah Ellis said:

P.M's questions or a random journo.

"Mr Cameron, would you fuck a pig?"

"Well, look, that's just not..."

"For the sake of Kate Middleton, Mr Cameron?"

Well now.

[Katsuya]

I definitely had a little cry for the last 10 minutes or so of San Junipero.

[Owen]

Just got into Black Mirror. Started watching it a couple days ago and I'm on series 3 now. God damn it's a great show.

[MDK]

23 minutes ago, Owen said:

Just got into Black Mirror. Started watching it a couple days ago and I'm on series 3 now. God damn it's a great show.

Enjoy the ride. I'll just leave a box of tissues over there.

[Owen]

9 minutes ago, MDK said:

Enjoy the ride. I'll just leave a box of tissues over there.

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I've already watched the first three episodes. I feel like Nosedive and Shut up and Dance didn't have as much of an effect on me as previous episodes did because they sorta just felt different from the rest of the show. Nosedive kinda had a happy ending in a way, which was a bit of a shift from what I've been taught to expect from Black Mirror. Shut Up and Dance, I dunno, the whole twist at the end sorta just showed that they deserved what was coming for them... but then again, the same sorta thing happened in White Bear as well? I'm not sure, just felt different for some reason.

(Spoilers for episodes 1 and 3ish)

[Gazz]

I wouldn't call being locked up in prison and possibly losing your sanity a 'happy ending'. I also wouldn't call being emotionally tortured and forced to fight to the death a 'deserved' punishment. But that's the beauty of the show, you're meant to sympathise with the main character, then they put something in towards the end which makes you revile them, then you have to decide your own opinion of whether the punishment fit the crime.

[Benji]

Finally got around to it, first episode made me angry in all the right ways.

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Every time I heard that voting sound it gave me a little tic. Bryce Dallas-Howard killed it, that laugh in particular was so terrifically forced. Not keen on the ending though, thought that was weak, especially the "I've always loved you" part of the speech.

 

[Benji]

Episode 2...

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Oh fuck that was amazing. Alzheimer's is one of my worst fears, and seeing that as the "villain" of the piece rather than the tech was somehow more horrifying than every other episode they have done.

The final observation of "Called Mom", broke my fucking heart too.

 

[MDK]

20 minutes ago, Benji said:

Episode 2...

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Oh fuck that was amazing. Alzheimer's is one of my worst fears, and seeing that as the "villain" of the piece rather than the tech was somehow more horrifying than every other episode they have done.

The final observation of "Called Mom", broke my fucking heart too.

 

Wait until you see episode 4

[Benji]

Season 3, Episode 3 "Shut up and Dance"

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Good episode, even if the ending was telegraphed from a mile off. Nobody is going to go to the level of going into a bank and robbing it just for the embarasment of a standard wank video. I felt like that was a mistake on their part, made it too obvious that the twist was incoming. Perhaps would have been better if Flynn's character had been it, showing he was good at manipulating younger people too.

 

[Gazz]

I dunno, kids have killed themselves due to cyberbullying over less.

[Benji]

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Eh, I suppose, but this is drama and you know that won't be the case in a show like this. Especially since this is a show that's already had that same ending with White Bear.

 

[Benji]

Season 3, Episode 4 "San Junipero"

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"I'm not going to cry. I'm not going to cry. I'm not going to..."

 

 

[MDK]

Just now, Benji said:

Season 3, Episode 4 "San Junipero"

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"I'm not going to cry. I'm not going to cry. I'm not going to..."

 

 

I did warn you

[Benji]

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I honestly spent the entire episode wondering what the big deal was (really wish I'd watched it with no expectations cause that sort of stunted my interest a bit tbh). Then the last 10 minutes just broke me entirely.

 

[MDK]

2 minutes ago, Benji said:

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I honestly spent the entire episode wondering what the big deal was (really wish I'd watched it with no expectations cause that sort of stunted my interest a bit tbh). Then the last 10 minutes just broke me entirely.

 

Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth?

[Benji]

Season 3, Episode 5 "Men Against Fire"

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Sadly the worst episode of Black Mirror so far by a large margin IMO. Obvious plot is obvious, and horrendously ham handed with its message, it was visually dull, and even the dialogue and acting (outside the main guy) were sub par. Good ending scene at least.

 

[Benji]

Season 3, Episode 6 "Hated In The Nation"

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Okay episode, but felt like a retread of the themes of the first episode, which itself was a retread of an earlier season episode. It should absolutely have ended with the guy killing himself and dealing with his consequences rather than that tacked on bit at the end.

Overall, a good season that should have kept with the previous seasons' length. FIrst four eps were varying degrees of great, but last two were real let downs, and easily in the bottom half of the show.