Anyone else remember before Black Mirror was about "women be on they phones," it was about politicians fucking pigs?
Anyone else remember before Black Mirror was about "women be on they phones," it was about politicians fucking pigs?
Can't have that anymore because of woke
Wot if yer roomba had a knoif?
Wot if yer mum was a computah?
Wot if yer fone new ya name
Wot eef there was an app on your mobile that summoned a weasel or a stout of your choice to bite your nippies until they're all gone? People would have few nippies left on account of they're always on mobile while standing on queue
But like, in the episode they should talk about how great it is to have the weasel eat your nipples and stream the whole thing while pretending they aren't in obvious pain. That way it says something about society.
there's already an app that summons a stout
... iBeer
Wot if they replace Big Ben with a digital clock?
I would dub it Digi-Ben.
It always had a weird incel streak to it. I remember the creator something like "yeah I like to portray women being evil because something something maternal instinct". The episode where the guy's exwife cheated on him was classic incel bait.
Season 1 and 2 + the Xmas Special are solid gold. It was a straight BBC joint then.
The themes and direction were clear and the show did what it set out to do. I enjoyed that. There are plenty of fair criticisms of the show, but pre-Netflix-collaboration Black Mirror has to stand alone.
was a straight BBC joint then.
It was on Channel 4 but your point stands.
the dance monkey dance one in S3 was good as well but that was it
It's amazing how 100% of the first season episodes were about people cheating on their partners. Also how obsessed the author seems to be about women cheating on their partners and having a mixed race baby. Oh yeah, i just remembered the "what if you could become a woman in a videogame and let your mate hit it?" episode.
"Bro? Is it gay to have sex in a video game with your best bro if you're playing as a brah?"
Yes and that's a good thing
"what if you could become a woman in a videogame and let your mate hit it?"
Well, whom amongst us hasn't fantasized about that?
Could be good, enjoyed it back in the day, but on reflection its kinda mid. Cyberpunk anthology series could have its day if writers generally understood "its not about how technology makes us bad, but using stories about technology to critique modern society". Also stop having man main characters where the main tragedy is how the cute girl at the coffee shop won't date them.
Wot if your mate wrote a transcendental musical thst swept all of britannia and when the queen came to see it, his Xbox came on stage and said it had written the tune? That'd be a real trouser pinch
Yeah there’s a clear drop in overall quality and curiosity between the original Channel 4 run and the Netflix episodes.
I could never get into Black Mirror because every episode felt like a poorly edited pilot, where the actors weren't into their roles yet and never would be since it was a one-off and they'd stretch like at most 15 minutes of story out into an hour of not particularly good filler that went on way too long. Like I felt like Love, Death, + Robots and Black Mirror were functionally the same thing and both had about the same amount of story and content per episode, but where LD+R trimmed it a little too tight Black Mirror would just keep going and going without anything there.
You might find Inside No. 9 a better anthology series to watch. Less “wot if your phone was evil” and more surrealist cross-genre drama. It has a consistent cast and while one or two episodes are weak, overall it’s quite enjoyable.
oo this is the show I was trying to remember where smelly gabe locks everyone in a cupboard and burns the house down
Wot if, a British bloke made a tele show bout how his dame done cheated on em with a cellular?
Blimey that's literally the show you made Charlie innit?
Oh, right-o
Wot if there was a microchip?
At's prahpuh scary, innit?
Remember the episode about the "Cockroaches"...
I know people complain about stories when they aren't subtle but sometimes its nice when you're beat over the head with the "point" a story was trying to make instead of having to "read the bones" and hope you stumble on a somewhat close answer.
I thought it was about what if technology but scary
You should watch Channel 4's Utopia. Dystopian scifi. It's about a comic book fan club that is being pursued by a fascist deepstate. It was canceled after 2 seasons for being too violent. It has great visuals and a banger soundtrack too.
It's a shame the premise is basically just accepting ecofash assumptions in order to be provocative, but the style and acting is great.
Great series, there was a US remake that went one season. It was not as good as the original, and particularly it missed the fantastic sountrack.
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the pig fucking episode was its peak. even the rest of that first series was not good
I have to say I really dislike black mirror. It feels so proud of itself for basic social commentary. Look at Twilight Zone, including the reboot, the story serves the commentary, instead of the story being the commentary stated over and over and over. BM just feels depressing and not in a Come and See way, but in this nihilistic sense.
It's like the TV equivalent of a Banksy
Ok but san junipero
Always hated it. Charlie Brooker made a parody of the concept years before making the show and also I fucking hate British people
attempting social commentary or humor.They're all smug little shit eaters who are way too proud of how fucking clever they are.This. Same goes for 90% of Doctor Who commentary, even when I agree with the politics. Idk maybe it is just the ambient sense of disgust I feel when witnessing the British
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Wot if a robot made checked yo see if you post youtube links instead of paying your telly loiscense?
Of season 4 I only saw the Jesse Plemons, neonazi from breaking bad, die in the game die IRL one. If there are any after that worth watching I'd like to know.
The only Black Mirror I found genuinely disturbing was White Bear.
White Bear
I also found that episode weird.
spoiler
Like... what's the whole premise behind this show? I get "the message" about social media allowing people to get off on punishing people, and how it's pretty sadistic even when the people deserve it. But who the fuck would pay to go to a park to mildly harass a woman who doesn't even recall the awful crime she committed? For most of the whole affair the lady is out in the woods and none of the cell phone gawkers could even see her. Who designed this weird ass scenario? What's the point? Wouldn't it just be more efficient to just torture her to death on live TV or something?
Like I got the concept but I found the details were really weird and I spent more time thinking about that than the message.
The one with the doctor getting off on pain and death was really disturbing personally.
"Be Right Back" from season 2 was really good, and incredibly prescient given recent developments in AI. It predicted Replika, or rather Replika was partially inspired by that episode - a real "we created the Torment Nexus" moment.
Seasons 4 and 5 were very forgettable, but I thought season 6 was quite solid with one exception.
I wanted to make a joke about pig fucking and woke, and people in the comments are earnestly discussing the show
Wot if the pig was a computah?
Welcome to Hexbear lol
the first two or three (can't remember) seasons were good then Netflix bought it. as usual you can thank the Americans for making it shit
Wot if your computer was an hyena and it voted Tory?
Yeah, suddenly it's palid and has no bite.
That show's still fucking going?
That one episode had the weirdly cute robot dog that wouldn't give up.