oo is the new season out? i liked the first one!
I watched the entire new season of Black Mirror. I enjoyed the hell out of this show back when the first few seasons were coming out, but I donât think itâs been particularly good since Season 4 back in 2017. But when it was good I enjoyed it enough that I still watch the new ones when they come out. Occasional episodes are decent.
For this season, Iâd only really recommend episode 2, which is a pretty effective horror story about the unexpected consequences that can occur from irresponsible âtrue crimeâ mediaâs prurient dredging up of the past.
Episode 5 was also worth watching. Solid central performance, fun ending, and bonus points for a Sapphire & Steel reference. The problem was, whenever the main character was watching funky 70âs BBC shows I always wished I was watching those instead of this.
Episode 1 was the absolute nadir of this show, dumbest shit Iâve ever seen.
They really leaned hard out of sci-fi and into urban fantasy this time around. An odd direction for this show and not one that particularly works imo.
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I havenât watched a lot of Black Mirror but nothing Iâve seen has really reached the heights of the very first episode.
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was just saying this to my partner a few days ago when she was complaining about how the new season sucks. stumbling on an sb1 thread in the middle of the night right after it dropped and downloading it because a bunch of people were saying it owned and then it being what it was⌠was great
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i let myself watch san junipero (s3e4) for the first time recently and bawled
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Who needs Black Mirror when so many episodes are just âWhat if technology but too muchâ when we are actually just seeing that in real life all the time
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i liked the first episode of black mirror, then hated the second so much that i never watched another
the first few series of screenwipe are still the best thing charlie brooker ever did, though even theyâre tainted by the fact that he joined almost every other british celebrity in coming out as a tory in 2019
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Iâm way behind on Black Mirror, but that âCunk on Earthâ show has some good parts.
I also saw Black Mirror when it was brand new and someone (I think Dracko) posted a link in SB1.
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Cunk is funny, I like âŚOn Earth and âŚOn Britain.
iâm probably not going to watch s2 for another few months due to other stuff going on (zelda) but i really loved s1 a lot and only like it more in retrospect
posting mainly to complain about the one meme tweet that is itself complaining about people who are vocally against shipping carmy/sydney. i am in general on board with the whole âpeople need to stop being so puritanical about sex in movies and tvâ vibe, itâs not my opinion because i think sex scenes in media are just always weird because i canât see one without thinking about how awkward it must have been on set that day. it breaks immersion. but anyway i get that it is something people are aggravated about. in this particular instance though i just really, really disagree that this would improve the show in any way, and to me feels like a huge betrayal of the characters. if they actually do end up in a romance i think i will probably start to hate the show.
i just feel like people donât appreciate how rare a workplace tv show without a protracted will they / wonât they arc is these days.
like yeah maybe there isnât enough softcore action in movies these days, but literally every sitcom or remotely comedic tv show has been doing exactly the same romance plot ever since The Office, and arguably ever since Cheers. iâm so fucking sick of it! they are doing it with Abbott Elementary and it is so torturous how theyâre dragging it out. iâm not opposed to it on principle but it just feels like lazy writing at this point. literally every other element of that show is better than the romance angle, and every time they grind everything else to a halt to focus on those two characters encountering another roadblock on their inevitable path to hooking up i just get so frustrated.
i bet you could map out exactly when every major âmomentâ in each of these romances takes place across sitcom seasons down to the episode. theyâre all the same!!! the bear is written too well to fall to that trap, plus whatâs so wrong about a show where people work together and develop an intense bond that doesnât involve romance or sex in anyway. this is the sort of shit that happens all the time, and i feel like i never actually see this done well on tv. like you canât have a âwork spouseâ character without there being some kind of underlying actual sexual tension there, and imho that is not the reality of most workplaces.
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you will love season 2
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I didnât even know there was a show called The Bear and I know we already have an extensive work wife thread, but: underlying sexual tension is exactly what work spouses are about
I guess I mean something else then!
wait what thread is this again
itâs still funny to me after all these years that even though we have all these interests in common, our like, bread and butter cultural channels are completely different
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Your cultural channels are desperate white immigrant middle class aspirational (npr, john franzen), mine are comfortably elite ancient wasp (whateverâs playing at the kennedy center). These are not the same
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well, I hope you enjoy the lion king musical
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I did see Victor Borge there, who absolutely ruled. I feel this is old world entertainment of which you would approve
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take notes, folks:
surplus origin story material for the inevitable Disney+ exclusive Muppet Universum Spin-off âStatler & Waldorf: When They Were Selected Buttsâ
.... of course I'd watch _that_, why'd you even doubt me for a sec?
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