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Post by mllemass on Feb 25, 2017 18:30:49 GMT
Since I no longer have IMDb to get people's opinions, I thought I'd ask my questions here.
I've been looking for a new series to watch, and Black Mirror on Netflix came highly recommended. I don't like science-fiction, but this was supposed to be a Twilight Zone-type of anthology show, so I gave it a try. The first episode looked promising: Rory Kinnear played the British PM, and it even had Lindsay Duncan (Lady Smallwood from Sherlock - playing the exact same character here!). Oh, how I wish I hadn't watched it! It was one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen. I'm not usually too bothered by things that I know are make-believe (I loved Dexter!), but this was different. I tried to "unsee" it by watching the second episode, but I only part-way through it. It wasn't disturbing, but it was a bit hard to follow. I may go back to watch the rest of the episode at some point.
Has anyone else watched Black Mirror? Did anyone else feel sick after the first episode? Am I safe to go ahead and watch more episodes? I saw the weird movie The Lobster a while back, and it would fit nicely into the Black Mirror anthology.
PS - I loved A Series of Unfortunate Events, if anyone is looking for something good to watch on Netflix.
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Post by miriel68 on Feb 26, 2017 17:18:55 GMT
I watched the first and the second series and I loved it, although it is indeed very disturbing. However, it is a very intellingent and stimulating TV: first two series better than the 3rd, IMO.
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Post by mllemass on Feb 26, 2017 22:35:44 GMT
I watched the first and the second series and I loved it, although it is indeed very disturbing. However, it is a very intellingent and stimulating TV: first two series better than the 3rd, IMO. Thanks! I will have to give it another try!
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Post by miriel68 on Feb 27, 2017 7:54:43 GMT
I think it really makes you wonder about the dangers of new technologies and changes they cause in our society and mentality. And PM episode was soooo very true about the power of Twitter!
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 30, 2017 23:21:14 GMT
Have someone watched te new season? After Twin Peaks, I followed with this. I’m on the third one. The first one was funny with a despot nerd that probably was disturbingly very credible!; second episode was about a creepy relationship between mother and daughter and the last one was disturbing and very well acted but there were some implausibilities Until now I think the first one is the best. No, I can’t believe Andrea Riseborough could kill all those people including a man double or maybe triple her size using brute force! EDITED: I just checked Wikipedia and, A LOT OF SPOILERS NEXT: Maybe this will sound horrible but that character was very clear a man! They didn’t do the changes right and it kind of affected the logic of the plot. A woman, specially a very thin woman like her can’t kill a huge male in a fight and then dispose his corpse! Later she kidnaps and savagely kills another woman with a log and the woman’s husband with a hammer! I am not a criminologist but I know that one key difference between murders by women and men is that the last ones tend to be much more brute and all those were brutal murders! And by the way, she is not a psychopath just a privileged person who almost accidentally take bad decisions after bad decisions trying not to lost her way of living! It would had been slightly more credible than a non-psychopath would kill a little kid (yes, she also kills the couple’s son!) if the character was actually a man! It’s incredible to me that not just a woman but a mother would do that!
Apart of that I also think it’s ironic that she is caught thanks to a new technology that reads memories when nowadays are cameras everywhere, including hotel’s hallways and hotel’s parking lot that surely would record her carrying a huge man’s corpse! Ok, I would watch episode 4!
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Post by onebluestocking on Jan 2, 2018 5:42:39 GMT
I've just started watching this. I agree that the first episode is horribly disturbing! But I've enjoyed the second and third. It's unfortunate that they started with SPOILER:the bestiality one.
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Post by igs on Jan 4, 2018 20:40:39 GMT
I've watched Black Mirror here and there. I skipped the first episode of the first season cause it didn't seem like worth it, I've watched a total of 7 episodes. My favorites are San Junipero and the first episode of the new season USS Callister (I guess it became an American show when it was sold to Netflix?) I've liked all the episodes I've seen though, maybe cause I've only watched those that are very popular haha. The only real crowd-pleaser I've yet to see is White Christmas cause I can't stand Jon Hamm. I'll watch it some day though!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 4, 2018 20:52:17 GMT
White Christmas is a little like Black Museum in the new season. They are both about a character telling short stories to another character with the last one directly related to both of them. If I have to choose one I would say White Christmas is better. I don’t think neither of them were truly memorable but that was the best of the two.
USS Callister was without doubt the best this season!
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Post by onebluestocking on Jan 5, 2018 1:52:23 GMT
"USS Callister" is because it is based on Star Trek, which has the USS Enterprise. The captain character has an American accent. Say it isn't so! He's (currently) the most famous person from my town.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 5, 2018 2:39:50 GMT
Jesse Plemons, the “captain”, was in Black Mass with BC. It seems a lot of people is discovering him thanks to that episode. He was great! I know there is a lot of thinking pieces about the episode that I haven’t actually read but it’s obvious why and about what. His character begins like the typical shy nerd who is bullied by people around him. You expect the nice girl who recognizes his genius ends with him or something but instead he revels himself as a pathetic dictator with childish but sadistic fantasies (he cant even imagine sexed bodies!). It’s a shout-out to modern fanboy culture with a little of gamer gate. This men-boys who are impotent in real life trolling-torturing people online-in their fantasy own worlds. The admiring girl is not the romantic interest but the rebellious heroine who ended destroying him when she (or her double) discover who he really is in his internal little world.
It was a very intelligent episode and true satire. Sadly I don’t think the rest was at it's level and some episodes begin to feel repetitive.
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