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/bmg/ Black Mirror General - tier list edition
Cristin is cute, the rest don't matter. This show has been shit since americans touched it
For this season it's
4>5>6>1>3>2
Any other ranking is objectively wrong.
2 would be ranked much higher if not for the shit ending
Watched the entire series in a binge today except episode 6. About to start it now.
One of the worst seasons by now. Episode 3 was utter shit, 4 was the best.
Is it really that bad?
entire series
season
I watched episode 2, episode 4, and the first 15 minutes of episode 1. Episode 4 is fantastic and definitely worth a watch, episode 2 is dogshit, episode 1 is dogshit, I will not be watching any of the other episodes this season. see the tierlist
me own fookin son's a quantum entanglement
It's becoming increasingly more funny seeing how many retards got filtered by episode 3. And episode 4 is overrated.
tier list makes me realise how unremarkable many episodes were.
Wot if dere was a little blue bloke 'n his name was Waldo
Wot if everyone had yank scores on dere phone 'n sum yank bitch wuz de lowest score onnit
S-tier
Television science fiction is an American art form and the best you can produce today is imitation. Blake's 7 was alright though.
Episode 3 is solely saved by Emma corrins acting. If the main actress wasn't so horrendously shit, it would've been a good episode, yes. But sadly it isn't.
waldo
it's literally the reality we're living in anon what do you want me to tell you
haven't done 5 and 6 yet.
agree on 2's ending. fucking dire. needed the runtime of #3 to flesh out a ceo gaslighting people into an alternate reality in a subtle manner.
4 was tight writing wise. just worked extremely well.
3 was kinda beautiful, and memorable. but the black actress ruined the whole thing. horribly cringe, but also horribly beautiful in parts. reckon it's got more staying power in my mind than most other episodes.
1.... meh, standard fare black mirror. quite a powerful emotion punch at the end. needed to go deeper and harder imo. felt too glossy and fake.
reminder of this fucking gem
i want to suck on verity fingers
It's been a few years since I've watched the show.
agreed on both counts here.
love old movies. the themes of reinventing film were incredible, and done kinda well. the black actress was cringe, and i liked that at first, as it shows how hollywood are fucking shit up.
however, she got tiring really quickly. the main actress was really like from a 40s movie, and it was enchanting. the world, too. i actually liked being able to live a bit of casablanca again.
some anon said something about sticking a washed up peter o toole in there, and trying to relive his days as 'someone'in the middle east, trying to grab on to a world which made him a star would've been magical. would've had a far more powerful punch and been a lot more believable.
out of curiosity anon what made you put hated in the nation so low compared to white bear? I tend to consider them spiritual cousins and roughly equal in quality
a welder can barely scrape together $300 extra a month working overtime every day
a teacher can be fired for medical issues
gay niggas is fucking kino, one of the few episodes that doesn't take itself too seriously
yeah its this shit which scream of commitee writing input. it's like there's lots of ideas, but nobody really 'gets' them.
the world or situation isn't believebale. i feel like somebody piped up with a flash gimmick, and they're tried to fit in pieces of a life around it.
unironically this.
EP3
so the black woman was a lesbian all along?
the graphics chips from consoles were the most powerful things I could find
that's not how it works charlie
based Verity taking her revenge on DEI bullies
welder is being harassed at work
the guy who is harassing him gets run over
its somehow his fault so he gets fired
hes forced to torture himself more instead of turning his wife’s shame down so she does the shit instead
youre unironically too low IQ to understand that the AI knew buying actual server farms and shit is too suspicious, meanwhile nobody is suspicious about a weirdo nerd buying a shitton of consoles.
dei cult shit is all the same. minority slaves can be whatever they're needed to be for grifting and bending the knee to their overlawds
that's what i was confused about, how would he connect all the parts from consoles to his computer and get it to work?
episode 4 is a rip of two TNG episodes- Evolution where they find the nanites are conscious and The Nth Degree where Barclay becomes an emissary/genius because he interacts with some software in a probe
Isn’t the Miley Cyrus episode supposed to be based off shit that happened to her ?
nice, TNG was the OG Black Mirror
i gotta watch that show again, every episode was so interesting
up until recently video game consoles were the cheapest bang-for-buck option for video graphics cards so you could link them together to build fairly cheap supercomputers
the scottish murder mystery episode with that ugly as fuck black chick is S tier
are you mental?
What was the point of the callister episode? To shit on nice guys?
yeah but don't they all have like proprietary firmware that makes it so it only works with the console?
it's also obviously inspired from The Little People twilight episode. We're all drinking from the same narrative wells in 2025
pretty trivial to crack them
Diversity hire aside it's one of my favourite episode, it really fucking got to me for once, the twist was actually mind blowing and I do not wish to watch it again because of how much it spooked me. That's worth an S in my book
I think it's more that episode 4 is just such a classic sci-fi magazine short story kind of script, I kind of predicted the ending in my head purely because of how familiar the beats and the general layout felt. I view this as a good thing by the way I think more tv needs to just get back to the basics of good writing instead of reinventing the wheel
Reinventing the wheel absolutely ruined ep2 and it makes me seethe even now
Could've been S tier so easily
my point is that at any point in time, more powerful retail graphics cards can be found than the ones they put in consoles
corrrr, imagine the frame rate on Crash Team Racing or Speed Freaks with that setup.
TNG?
Black Mirror S7: First 3 episodes are absolute rubbish. Episode 4 is schizophrenic nonsense. Episode 5 is super basic but ok. Episode 6 is the only good episode, really good actually. They should have just released episode 6 on it’s own.
leave zoomie
ep2 made me seethe hard. thought we were going to repiece how reality was bent in subtle ways like a detective show as an allergory for the power of big tech on our perception of reality.
can't actually believe they pulled the 'lol can click a better and change a reality due to MUH QUANTTUUUMMZZZ'. it's almost as if they just gave up writing at 5pm
both episode 2 and 6 have characters with unlimited op powers and they lose anyway, bullshit endings
The quantum shit was actually fine, it's just that they made her gigabrained and absolutely retarded at the same time.
implying you wouldn't pick a universe where you literally have some nanomachine in your brain instead of a retarded fucking switch
And on top of that they added incompetent cops getting their gun pulled kek
Verity should've won, add some pseudo win for chef girl only for her to inevitably lose and it would've been kino
really good
What makes you say that? Seemed like a bland cash grab
Thronglets was okay, but the male cop ruined it.
can't stomach 'lol and then this happened' tier writing.
makes me seethe even harder they gave her a spooky look and music to show something's up.
for me, it was the server room for unlimited power next to a shitty single glazed patio door, though.
Male cop has a backstory btw:
youtube.com
Yeah it def started falling apart with plotholes when she got into the house, the confrontation redeemed it a bit but then it was all ruined again.
I will keep defending the quantum shift idea tho I think it could be pretty kino if executed better. "Muh fake news" slop would've been horrendous and too preachy
he did nothing wrong and is owed sex.
Was thinking more like:
check whatapp chat for ''''''''''evidence''''''' in argument with gf and its different to what you remember
cctv overwritten by ai to show you do total opposite
wikipedia edits to make you question that it's 9/12, not 9/11.
random transactions on cards with ''''purchases'''' appearing in your apartment after nights out drinking, etc
the descent into being a schizo who doesn't trust anything then necks it as they believe its a simulation, would be based.
i.e. could you pull off an inception mind heist on someone through altering their reality through tech?
they should have gave him a gf to be honest it wouldn't be that hard give him one of the whores that's already digitized before the ban on the machine
INT: Netflix writers room
BOOKER: "fook, how do we make remind the audience he's a hateful incel again?"
WRITER: "how about... him saying <<But I'm a nice guy!>> like 3-4 times?"
BOOKER: "Fookin hell... that's brilliant, that's bloody fookin brilliant"
*applause, snipping and cheers from the other writers*
the quantum shit thing is a neat idea but they decided to reveal it in like 5 minutes at the end and it was basically just lol magic so it was fucking pointless
ep1: interracial relationship with biracial wife
ep2: black girl (best employee) kills bad white girl and literally becomes kween of the universe
ep3: interracial lesbian couple with a they/them actress
yeah I think I'm done
This season was ok. I liked Eulogy, didn't like interracial computer lesbians, and everything else was somewhere in between.
why did you like Eulogy? i thought it was kinda boring
If you’ve ever done something wrong to someone this is pretty much how hell is going to be after you die.
if I've ever daydreamed about torturing people who I don't like does that make me le evil according to black mirror's morality
i saw episode 5 had paul giamatti so i watched it and i was pleasantly surprised because it was actually a decent story that had futuristic technology as a side aspect vs the last black mirror episode i saw years ago which was basically 'what if robots killed everyone dude fuck man thatd suck'
any other episodes like that?
The junipero one
need verity gf
did nothing wrong award
I started a rewatch of the whole series. The National Anthem is way weaker than I remember it to be. I was totally blown away by it when I first saw it. It was one of my favorite episodes. I saw it today after 5+ years and it didn't do that much for me for some reason. Maybe to shock value wore off.
It's because reality became so clownworld nobody would even bat an eye if somebody like trump fucked a pig on live television kek
So stunning and brave. Thank you Black Mirror for standing up to racism.
well that's funny because it was written entirely by a pasty white 50 year old
everyone else in the office was a mystery meat though
Offices and office culture are inherently white privilege coded so it doesn't matter what race the other coworkers are
I'm not even kidding lmao
why haven't they made a black mirror episode about this?
mate wot if you gramma was a robot?
oi bruv wot if ya docta was a racist white men but also a.i
pardon me fella wot if ya telly was selling you propaganda crazy innit?
sorry to tæke yo time mista but wot if social media was spying on you
listen, listen... that might sound bonkers but wot.. wot if your cell was listening to everything and recording you without you noticing and sending signal all the time where you at. Funny bollocks roight?
I gotta say, this show really does 'filter' people. I've seen plenty of tier lists for this that are completely the opposite of this, or completely different in other ways. Even just for season 7, a lot of people over the last day or two have completely opposite takes on which episodes are classic and which are awful / boring.
This says to me that they're at least trying something unique, and letting each episode / writer develop something of a unique voice.
it's mostly slop let's be real
Absolutely shit ranking
PLEASE STOP JERKING! I JUST CAAAME!
No, you haven't.
there are n+1 universes where she won
there are n+1 universes where I suck her toes for eternity
THreadly reminder the throng are either evil or what they perceive as good will make humanity inhuman (same thing)