Black Mirror Season 4 is out

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I am watching it. Episode 1 is good. Episode 2 is bad. Episode 3 is good but dammit

it should have just been a regular ass baby camera that got her.

Tallahasseeriel

I have not watched Black Mirror at all, in fact I haven't used Netflix in a while at all?

Tube is Black Mirror Spooky? I think I might check it out tonight.

TheStig

I need a complete list of which episodes of season 3 and 4 to watch/skip. I hate watching an hour and a half episode of this to find out it wasn't worth it.

Lorahalo

I finished up the new episodes last night, I think my favourite was the first one. The way they just flipped it in the first 15 minutes or so was really great. I think my least favourite was Black Museum because it was just a little eh, and Metalhead was close behind it since it was very barebones and dragged on a little. I get what they were going for though. I really loved the ending to Crocodile though, that shot lingered just long enough.

WiseManTobes

Near the end of the Trek episode, did anyone kinda chuckle when

The hail was Aaron Paul? all my brain could think was Todd from Bojack.

SenorTacos

what if cell phones but too much

Transporter

This was my favorite season of Black Mirror.

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Although I have to admit it has far, far less of it's signature cruelty without catharsis. I mean there was a whopping two episodes with a fuck yeah ending!

Complete spoilers(past and present.)

The first episode is my favorite in the series, squeaking San Junipero. Fuck it I'll justy rank them.

1. USS Callister
2. San Junipero
3. The Entire History of You
4. 15 Million Merits
5. White Christmas
5b. Men against Fire

Like, you could take away the falsetto Star Trek theme and set that in any sort of virtual world and it would have been fuckin gold. All the performances were brilliant.

The whole season was pretty damn fire.

@Tube 's Spoiler.

I liked the dumb memory payoff with the Guinea Pig breaking her completely fucking absurd kill streak. I think throwing in that the kid was blind was a little too much "WHY ARE WE HERE SNAKE, JUST TO SUFFER?" though

Aphostile

TheStig wrote: »

I need a complete list of which episodes of season 3 and 4 to watch/skip. I hate watching an hour and a half episode of this to find out it wasn't worth it.

You’ll watch em all and you’ll like it.

Naphtali

SenorTacos wrote: »

what if cell phones but too much

what if black mirror, but too much

Grey Ghost

https://twitter.com/jade_michelle/status/946553597239746560

Hermano

What if that one Mallory Ortberg joke, but too much, over and over and over again across social media

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All the Black Mirror hot takes are cold we did them last season please go away

Grey Ghost

I mean I think we did them for season 1 too

MalReynolds

SenorTacos wrote: »

what if cell phones but too much

Yeah, they also included the 'what if phones but too much' line in the S3 finale on a computer screen

so that take is kind of

it's not even hot, it's a take the show did at itself.

Hermano

Anyway, episode 1 was really good, Jess Plemons is great in everything he's in, this isn't a show I want to blitz through but I'm looking forward to the rest of the episodes, thank you and good night.

Mulletude

Ep 3 left me feeling very uneasy

It was bad enough what she did to the mom and dad but the baby too?
That and I have clear memories of my son chatting and standing at the side of the crib waiting.

As a parent herself, how could she hurt a baby

Gonna be in my head for a long time

So far, i've been satisfied with the new season, 3 eps in.

Gustav

I like Black Mirror in the way I like EC Horror Comics. I generally know exactly how it will play out. But it’s well put together and I can hear the writers snickering throughout.

TheStig

They should do a stone age episode where people are having their lives turned all upside-down when shit like the wheel is invented.

Gustav

TheStig wrote: »

They should do a stone age episode where people are having their lives turned all upside-down when shit like the wheel is invented.

That’s a really good pitch actually

Veldrin

They should do an episode that is just completely lighthearted and uplifting all the way through, with no twist or anything.

I assure you I will be tense as hell for the entire thing.

a nu start

Best line:

Oh my fuck!

Episode 1 is great. Episode 2 is alright but predictable. Episode 3 is... not my bag.

Ladai

Black Mirror is one of those shows that I think is very good but the experience of watching it is, for me personally, absolutely so excruciating that I need like multiple months between individual episodes.

I haven't watched an episode in like eight months and still when I see it show up in my Netflix recommendations I'm just like man that is too much right now.

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Ladai wrote: »

Black Mirror is one of those shows that I think is very good but the experience of watching it is, for me personally, absolutely so excruciating that I need like multiple months between individual episodes.

I haven't watched an episode in like eight months and still when I see it show up in my Netflix recommendations I'm just like man that is too much right now.

Season 4 is way lighter than previous seasons.

2 and 3 are the only real SADNESS ENGINE episodes with an honorable mention to 5.

The first episode I argue is the best Black Mirror episode ever though.

GreasyKidsStuff

Episode 1 really made me uneasy when the conceit first started going, but by the end of it I thought it was kind of goofy.

That initial "oh my fuck, that's what's happening" reveal was really dark, though

Endless_Serpents

Funny, I thought is was season 4.

Peter Ebel

Gustav wrote: »

TheStig wrote: »

They should do a stone age episode where people are having their lives turned all upside-down when shit like the wheel is invented.

That’s a really good pitch actually

Mitchell and Webb got you covered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ

KetBra

Peter Ebel wrote: »

Gustav wrote: »

TheStig wrote: »

They should do a stone age episode where people are having their lives turned all upside-down when shit like the wheel is invented.

That’s a really good pitch actually

Mitchell and Webb got you covered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ

oh god damn it I came here to post this

SharpyVII

Crocodile spoiler:

I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for those pesky guinea pigs!

Einzel

M+W are my heroes. I watched Back over Xmas break and it was very good.

Aphostile

GreasyKidsStuff wrote: »

Episode 1 really made me uneasy when the conceit first started going, but by the end of it I thought it was kind of goofy.

That initial "oh my fuck, that's what's happening" reveal was really dark, though

Coincidentally “oh my fuck” is my favorite quote from the episode.

Goatmon

I'm on Arkangel.

Not even ten minutes in and I'm *really* not okay with this. :?

edit: Fuck it, I'm skipping it. This shit is a trigger of mine. I don't need that in my life right now.

RT800

Black Mirror is a show I like to read the wikipedia synopses of and then never watch.

Melding

i watched the first three episodes of the new season, and I don't think i liek black mirror. Glad people are liking it, the one about the english PM was worth watching.

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Goatmon wrote: »

I'm on Arkangel.

Not even ten minutes in and I'm *really* not okay with this. :?

edit: Fuck it, I'm skipping it. This shit is a trigger of mine. I don't need that in my life right now.

It’s a bad episode anyway

Aphostile

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Goatmon wrote: »

I'm on Arkangel.

Not even ten minutes in and I'm *really* not okay with this. :?

edit: Fuck it, I'm skipping it. This shit is a trigger of mine. I don't need that in my life right now.

It’s a bad episode anyway

It’s just helicopter parenting for generation after-Y.

My friends with kids are basically already living it.

Muddy Water

So a friend and I decided to welcome the new year with a dose of Black Mirror. She's a huge fan. I hadn't seen season 3 yet but decided to watch season 4 with her anyway. We ended up skipping around between seasons. S4E1 was a lot of fun.

I love how it turns into a legitimately entertaining episode of Star Trek by the end. The insane amount of lens flare when they make it to the new universe was a funny little touch too.

We then saw two Season 3 episodes - Nosedive and Playtest. Nosedive's world is my personal nightmare so thank you very much for that, Black Mirror. Playtest just wasn't very good. It has three separate endings and by the end, I was rolling my eyes. My friend had also told me that it was a terrifying episode... which it wasn't.

GaryO

Binge watched the whole of season 4 in a day, really liked the USS Callister and Don't Hang the DJ, wasn't too keen on Crocodile and thought Metalhead was the worst episode by far.

SharpyVII

Hang the DJ is my favourite so far.

Metalhead next and from what I've read it's the most divisive episode of the season.

Beasteh

Anzekay

so real question

how much of a downer is this show? particularly for someone who works in tech? I've been kinda interested in checking this out but I'm also not really that keen on yet another show that posits that the future and technology will be awful and disturbing. At least not at the moment!

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It's more about how people can misuse technology. It's not always a downer but don't watch it if you don't want downers.