Black Mirror presents us with a disturbing parallel world where Trent Reznor doesn’t exist but his music has been turned into aspirational dance pop Hanna Montana songs.
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I thought it was a bit novel that they turned Head Like a Hole into a kicky pop song, though hearing it so many times during the episode did wear on me. The grunged up version at the end was pretty bad. At the end of the episode my wife critiqued it with a simple “That was terrible.”
Yeah, I watched the first episode, hated it, and all it made me think was “why am I wasting time on this garbage when there’s so much other garbage, some of which I might actually enjoy, I could be watching instead?” and never even thought of watching another episode. I think I decided to watch for the first time the entire (original) Twin Peaks series instead around then. Weird yes, but a more fun kind of weird.
Agreed. And how the media was just wetting itself to be able to report it. That first episode made me want to watch all of the rest. Not because of the pig fucking, but because I knew that this show would hold nothing back and explore any topic.
Agreed. I get that people are squeamish, but I’m way more disturbed by the many episodes where fully sentient digital simulacra are endlessly tortured for extremely petty gain.
I thought the most recent season was refreshingly less oppressively dystopian than previous seasons. The episodes are still dark, but not “trapped in a digital hellscape for eternity” dark.
An episode that I liked a lot that I don’t recall seeing mentioned here is Be Right Back from S2.
I’m in the minority in that I liked the pig fucking episode and none of the rest. I thought the first episode was funny, dark and pretty interesting, but every other episode was the same thing over and over.
I do wonder if it’s mixing “futurism” and sadism too closely. It’s so prominent in season 4 that I forget how much was in the prior ones. Digital hell is a great idea but doing it every week is a little much.
That being said I thought USS Callister was about he best sci fi I know of. I have never become a sci fi person, mainly because there weren’t enough great flicks for me. I am never riveted to the screen anymore, it seems, but this one had me.
My least favorite would be the first one and the black museum. This last one seemed a little incoherent, and had a reprise of the digital hell theme too soon after the other ones. It’s very clever anyway.
