I don't know how I missed this series when it came out but somehow I was in some weird bubble where Black Mirror was never mentioned by friends, family, or anyone really. I somehow managed to avoid any discussion about it.
So how did I discover it you ask? It was because of the Orville episode from last week Majority Rule which I enjoyed. I enjoyed the episode enough to click into the link here on GAF for the discussion thread to see if everyone agreed with my take on the episode but I saw it mentioned a few times that it was a lot like a Black Mirror episode. Intrigued I did a little research and was like A modern Twilight Zone type of show with mature themes? Oh fuck yes!
So on Halloween night my girlfriend and I smoked up and binge watched through the first season. I'll be watching more when she has a day off, she's doing the school and work thing, but I thought I would do little recaps of what I thought of each episode. Seeing as each season only has a few episodes I should be able to finish this fairly quickly. In fact we should be able to watch more tonight. Anyways so let me dive in with my reactions to the episodes.
The National Anthem- After watching the other two in Season 1 I see how this episode is a bit of a weird outlier from the general theme. I mean, it follows it to a point but not near as much of a tech focus and much more a human focused show. Thoroughly enjoyed it. The actors are top knotch and play their parts well. I was disquieted by parts and that can be hard to do at my highly cynical 38 years of age. That being said probably my least favorite episode of the first season. Not because it's bad, but because the other two were so good.
50 Million Merits- I would say this episode tripped my head the most and continues to this day. I think of this episode every time I have to sit through a 30 second ad on Youtube to get to the content I want. I have always considered myself an empath and this episode impacted my emotions the most. I didn't just see the anguish and the hopelessness of their existence but I felt the raw emotion just exuding from all these people. Watching the female leads breakdown from wannabe singer to mindless porn star through the male lead's eyes was soul rending and his sell out of his principles in the end leaves you a barren wasteland of emotion. You also feel you may very well have done the same thing as he did though to escape the current existence.
The Entire History of You- Fuck...
Just fuck...
I had been talking with my girlfriend about how one day we would have nanocomputers in our brain somehow and we would be able to save our memories to some sort of cloud storage and we could go back to them at any time so we can see, hear, smell, taste, and feel our past memories should we so choose.
So yeah, this episode nailed me pretty hard. I could see exactly how this situation would have played out in real life. How so many people could become obsessive over things we normally don't even notice in the moment. I really think this technology is coming one day and we will see scenes such as this play out in real life one day.I would say this episode is the best acted of the three and the pain is too real. The actors on this show really go hard on the method acting and it leaves little open festering wounds in your brain that you may not even realize are there until days later when something else that you didn't notice before hits you.
All in all fantastic. It was the show I didn't realize I wanted but now I want MORE MORE MORE.
Wouldn't mind other recommendations that are similar to this show.
So how did I discover it you ask? It was because of the Orville episode from last week Majority Rule which I enjoyed. I enjoyed the episode enough to click into the link here on GAF for the discussion thread to see if everyone agreed with my take on the episode but I saw it mentioned a few times that it was a lot like a Black Mirror episode. Intrigued I did a little research and was like A modern Twilight Zone type of show with mature themes? Oh fuck yes!
So on Halloween night my girlfriend and I smoked up and binge watched through the first season. I'll be watching more when she has a day off, she's doing the school and work thing, but I thought I would do little recaps of what I thought of each episode. Seeing as each season only has a few episodes I should be able to finish this fairly quickly. In fact we should be able to watch more tonight. Anyways so let me dive in with my reactions to the episodes.
The National Anthem- After watching the other two in Season 1 I see how this episode is a bit of a weird outlier from the general theme. I mean, it follows it to a point but not near as much of a tech focus and much more a human focused show. Thoroughly enjoyed it. The actors are top knotch and play their parts well. I was disquieted by parts and that can be hard to do at my highly cynical 38 years of age. That being said probably my least favorite episode of the first season. Not because it's bad, but because the other two were so good.
50 Million Merits- I would say this episode tripped my head the most and continues to this day. I think of this episode every time I have to sit through a 30 second ad on Youtube to get to the content I want. I have always considered myself an empath and this episode impacted my emotions the most. I didn't just see the anguish and the hopelessness of their existence but I felt the raw emotion just exuding from all these people. Watching the female leads breakdown from wannabe singer to mindless porn star through the male lead's eyes was soul rending and his sell out of his principles in the end leaves you a barren wasteland of emotion. You also feel you may very well have done the same thing as he did though to escape the current existence.
The Entire History of You- Fuck...
Just fuck...
I had been talking with my girlfriend about how one day we would have nanocomputers in our brain somehow and we would be able to save our memories to some sort of cloud storage and we could go back to them at any time so we can see, hear, smell, taste, and feel our past memories should we so choose.
So yeah, this episode nailed me pretty hard. I could see exactly how this situation would have played out in real life. How so many people could become obsessive over things we normally don't even notice in the moment. I really think this technology is coming one day and we will see scenes such as this play out in real life one day.I would say this episode is the best acted of the three and the pain is too real. The actors on this show really go hard on the method acting and it leaves little open festering wounds in your brain that you may not even realize are there until days later when something else that you didn't notice before hits you.
All in all fantastic. It was the show I didn't realize I wanted but now I want MORE MORE MORE.
Wouldn't mind other recommendations that are similar to this show.
