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Black Mirror S3 |OT| The Future Is Bright - October 21st on Netflix

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EdibleKnife said:
I don't know how people expected the twist by the beginning.
By the time he robbed the bank, I knew it wasn't a simple jack off session but I honestly didn't expect child porn until it was revealed. The interaction with the kid in the beginning seemed totally normal to me. I never thought it'd be that dark so it still hit for me.



Hoping SyFy is paying some attention and looks out for that kind of quality lol But creators like Brooker don't come along that often
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(Shut up and Dance)
it was more the very first text "I know what you did!" and his reaction that cemented very early on this was no simple jack off. Plus his interaction with the kid and then close up of painting on the table seemed a bit random not to be some part in the plot. One too many clues I think, but the execution was still horrifying
 
EdibleKnife said:
I don't know how people expected the twist by the beginning.
By the time he robbed the bank, I knew it wasn't a simple jack off session but I honestly didn't expect child porn until it was revealed. The interaction with the kid in the beginning seemed totally normal to me. I never thought it'd be that dark so it still hit for me.
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Episode 3 spoilers

To be honest,as I once was an awkward teenager
I couldn't think of anything worse than my genital being fully exposed to people like his co-workers, and I honestly believed that was all it was since when he dropped the condoms at the gas station he seemed so shell-shocked. It was very believable, imo


Also, I never made that
Mindy
connection. I feel so dense lol

Really enjoyed the first three episodes so far.
 
Eh. Could we start a spoiler thread for this show? Knowing there's a twist in any particular episode sort of takes the wind out the sails.

Gvitor said:
I'm 1-star rating everyone here that's saying episode 1 wasn't good.

That was so fucking good, with some fantastic acting to top it off. I'm glad this show is back. Based Netflix.
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Same. It's very "lite" for black mirror but it was great speculative fiction; taking modern obsessions and cultures to their absolute extreme - even if that extreme isn't necessarily violent or bad.

I also thought the very end was good. Thematically. If you imagine these people have
never said anything rude to anyone in their entire life. The sense of them just letting go for the first time came across well for me. And the superimposition of their faces at the end put out that
this is the great equaliser in a ridiculous world.

Edit: just started on episode 2. My god this show is so well written.

Edit edit : fucking shout out to Edge magazine in episode 2!
 
weird seeing some of the reactions, I loved episode 1 and I'd probably put it as my favourite so far; probably will be the one that defines the series as it stands out so much conceptually.

On the flip side, I'm watching Ep 4 right now, and unlike for many it seems, it just isn't grabbing me much at all =/

Edit: nvm, it's picking up, but it's a slow burn certainly this one imo
 
AHA-Lambda said:
weird seeing some of the reactions, I loved episode 1 and I'd probably put it as my favourite so far; probably will be the one that defines the series as it stands out so much conceptually.

On the flip side, I'm watching Ep 4 right now, and unlike for many it seems, it just isn't grabbing me much at all =/
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I've only seen the first two so far but I think Nosedive is definitely a far stronger episode easily.

looking forward to watching the third soon. impressions all seem really strong here.
 
EdibleKnife said:
I don't know how people expected the twist by the beginning.
By the time he robbed the bank, I knew it wasn't a simple jack off session but I honestly didn't expect child porn until it was revealed. The interaction with the kid in the beginning seemed totally normal to me. I never thought it'd be that dark so it still hit for me.
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A lot of it I think is just how we've been trained to watch television through long-running series with lots of continuity. Shut Up and Dance:
It was such an otherwise detached part of the episode. Chekhov's Gun has become such an important principle in long-form storytelling (particularly in relation to television), and is used so frequently in Black Mirror in particular that in a story centering around a teenager recorded masturbating to pornography doing a series of escalatingly serious tasks based around a life-wrecking recording, it's not a jump to consider the encounter at the beginning of the episode with the child to play an important role. EDIT: And of course, there was the text of "I Know what you did" which doesn't particularly align with just masturbating to porn. Black Mirror frequently shapes even fine, otherwise throw-away details into plot-dominating plot points (or swerves in an unexpected direction from what seems to be the central line of the plot), most notably demonstrated in The Entire History of You, that it isn't too surprising some people would be able to suspect from very early that this is where it would be going, particularly when we've already had White Bear.
 
I fucking HATED the American dude in Ep 2. So fucking annoying. Pretty much made me have zero sympathy for him at all.

Loved the first episode quite a lot. Probably one of my fave eps of Black Mirror overall.

Still have to go through eps 3-5 today.
 
AHA-Lambda said:
Just finished episode 3.

Oooh man, that ending is fucking cutting D:
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Aye it's rough. Not exactly the best episode to watch midday at the weekend :P

SomTervo said:
Eh. Could we start a spoiler thread for this show? Knowing there's a twist in any particular episode sort of takes the wind out the sails.
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Yeah I think people should be spoilering that. I mean it's okay saying an episode was a tough watch, as nearly every episode is. Not every episode has twists though.
 
Just finished episode 4, slow start but it pays off. Very unique episode, very different for this show.

I'm guessing Kelly changed her mind in the end then? I think it'd be more impactful actually, if she decided to not go through with it
 
Mr. Bad Example said:
Playtest:

"Okay, so our
highly experimental brain/computer interface kills people if a mobile phone rings in the same room. Should we...maybe run the test in a Faraday cage, or at least take the phone out of the same room, or at the very least make super duper pinky-swear no backsies sure the test subject's phone is turned off before starting?
"

Everyone who's apparently in charge: "¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
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lol yup, at the very least
you wouldn't confiscate the phone and still bring it in. A place like that though would usually store a phone at the welcoming area before going into the work area AND usually that isn't a precaution usually reserved for your device killing people if a phone rings, it's for preventing leaks.
 
Dance > Nosedive > Hated > Fire > Junip > Playtest

I think... I'll probably change my mind. I liked Nosedive because of how closely it matched the vanity of social media. It made it more entertaining. Playtest had some cool stuff but isn't very memorable and is kinda dumb. Men against fire was really cool. Dance was the most fuked up and gave me the biggest Black Mirror vibe. The Hated in the Nation was cool because it was mostly grounded in reality (outside of the obvious).
 
Watched 4 episodes so far. It's already delivered in spades.

I thought Nosedive was great, so i was surprised to see this thread so down on it. I thought tonally it was a nice change of pace, in terms of being unlike any Black Mirror episode to date, and the production values were amazing. Bryce Dallas carried it with a brilliant performance.

Playtest was quite fun, especially with all the game references, but hasn't really lingered with me. The ending kind of undermined it. Russel's performance kind of grated on me too.

Shut Up and Dance was just fucked up. I don't know what else to say. I don't think i could ever rank it as a favourite, but it was extremely effective in its nastiness.

San Junipero was something else though. Instant classic for me. Perfectly cast, beautiful cinematography and music. Really hit me hard emotionally.
 
Shut Up And Dance is the first truly great episode. It's more than just a shallow observation and has actual characters and a plot you can care about, while also being a terrifying concept that everyone can fear. Best so far easily, leagues beyond the previous 2.
 
Finished Episode 3.
KIDS KENNY!!
This is my favorite so far, the fist two were also great, but both kind of had something that annoyed me in terms of plot. I'm trying to restrain myself to not binge the whole thing in two days :(
 
Episode 3

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Episode 3

It is kind of weird they made him a paedo. I don't really get the necessity of that; it ultimately makes it a lot harder to feel sorry for him and I don't really see why you need that to dull the impact of this terrible thing happening to someone. The video getting released and him being arrested for robbery would be enough of a downer
 
Shut up and dance
I don't get how 'they' knew he was a pedo or how releasing video of him jacking would expose that. He said it was pictures, so unless he held them up to the camera...

Ep 1 was well done but the premise was silly. How would there not be a group of "bad" people with high ratings? See: Trump. Also there's gotta be an easier physical system for the ratings
 
pj said:
Shut up and dance
I don't get how 'they' knew he was a pedo or how releasing video of him jacking would expose that. He said it was pictures, so unless he held them up to the camera...

Ep 1 was well done but the premise was silly. How would there not be a group of "bad" people with high ratings? See: Trump. Also there's gotta be an easier physical system for the ratings
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re the spoiler
if they have access to your webcam they have access to your computer screen, presumably. Quite how they would distribute this info in a way that made it a fact he was looking at kids I don't know
 
Nosedive, really made me uncomfortable. It's scary to think this is the direction we're headed in somewhat, I wonder if people felt like this watching the twilight zone back in the day.
 
Question about Dance
what did they have on the black guy? His family called him a pervert and stuff, but did we see anything specific?
 
Camper Van Beethovan said:
Episode 3

It is kind of weird they made him a paedo. I don't really get the necessity of that; it ultimately makes it a lot harder to feel sorry for him and I don't really see why you need that to dull the impact of this terrible thing happening to someone. The video getting released and him being arrested for robbery would be enough of a downer
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It makes people feel more sick to their stomach - something that BM seems to strive for. Reminds me of the pig episode in S1. It also makes the guy robbing the bank make more sense. If it wasn't an overly sinister video then he probably would've walked out. Plus it's more memorable now.
 
Enco said:
It makes people feel more sick to their stomach - something that BM seems to strive for. Reminds me of the pig episode in S1. It also makes the guy robbing the bank make more sense. If it wasn't an overly sinister video then he probably would've walked out. Plus it's more memorable now.
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The pig made it an absurd scenario, which personally I think made the show better as a satire. This..I mean I guess it's true it does explain why he doesn't bail out at any point, but I don't think "ooh what a twist he was a paedo!" is an especially good narrative. I really enjoyed the episode so it doesn't take away from it too much, but it does leave me feeling kinda weird about it. It essentially turns anon into the good guys. Shades of grey I suppose!
 
Maybe to a non-American the protagonist from Playtest is easier to swallow. I thought he was brilliant.

Amazing how much character development they cram into fifteen minutes. He's like a frustrated, difficult young guy at the start and you get that sense within seconds. Then they grow him so quickly with the whole world traveller gambit.

And yeah the end fucked me up bad.

Camper Van Beethovan said:
He said just too "yeah woah like wow ha ha" for me. Episode is good though. Not as good as anything in s1-2 though.
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Playtest is infinitely better than the mascot episode from... Season 2?

Mascot episode is the worst episode of the whole series.
 
The Last Wizard said:
S3 Ep 1, really made me uncomfortable. It's scary to think this is the direction we're headed in somewhat, I wonder if people felt like this watching the twilight zone back in the day.
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Yup, really fuckin uncomfortable

The main actress was really fantastic as well, brother was really bangable too, is he the same guy from Happy Valley S1?
 
The hype for episode 4 (San Junipero) was definitely justified. Definitely up there with Fifteen Million Merits and The Entire History of You for me. What an absolutely stellar episode.
 
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