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So they basically enslaved humanity right

They freed humanity from retards like the detective who just yelled and seethed but a 60 year old corpse of some vagrant druggie nobody cared for

You always wanted to drop to your knees and worship my feet

You could never come without my permission

It was kino

You hate every moment of it but you can't help yourself

what exactly did anon mean by this post

that sounds really awful

yeah that's one of the more confusing choices in the episode - why does the detective freak out so much at the end? It's clearly not because of the screens all going black and stuff, he evidently doesn't believe that capaldi's character is telling the truth? The meta reason is that they wanted to show the contrast between capaldi's 'evolved' violence-free throngified demeanour and the detective's 'unevolved' barbaric behaviour but in-universe I don't get why he'd resort to physical violence like that. Or maybe he did realise that capaldi was telling the truth when the screens suddenly switched and he figured he'd try and take him out out of desperation

But at the cost of every humans individuality?

And colin hinted at the throng being a basilisk, i think humanity got fucked

Colin prevented the game from being released to the public because he can only release games that have episode titles

It's punishment, it's meant to

This season worth watching?

Yes, but you can skip episode 3 and 5

yes, all episodes are worth a watch

2 and 3 actually

So they basically enslaved humanity right

No, they actually killed off humanity at the end. They saw Cameron kill Lump and decided that humanity is too dangerous to continue so the best course of action was to wipe everyone out painlessly. They tricked Cameron into thinking they were going to upgrade everyone so he could help them broadcast their worldwide kill signal. Once everyone died they also self terminated themselves as they found existence was meaningless. They let Cameron live and spared him though because he was nice to them afterall.

mixels

LOL
LMFAO

Didn't find two that bad. It just ended really quickly and stupid, could have been wrapped up better with a cliffhanger or something.

Yeah so maybe it's not worth watching

it's worse than 5 for sure

we need the most powerful devices in the world to create a supercomputer

Buys a nintendo switch

what did Charlie Brooker mean by this?

nice headcannon

The only episode I truly cared about was Common People.

hated this ugly git. glad she got shot in her nasty mug.

he's right about humanity being killed, if you pay attention to the cop on the floor, he's actually not breathing

The first 3 episodes feel like they were written by women, or at least meant for women as the primary audience. They aren’t good, unfortunately.

she was braindead, how this can works?

Re-wiring with the copy's neuological state
It makes sense given what the tech is, but it raises way more interesting questions of what a society would be like with access to basic medical technology that can not only copy personality or change perception, but entirely write over the existing human brain on the fly

Anyone go to the QR code in the credits of plaything?

Have a feeling plaything is connected to metalhead

it's just a link for the Thronglets mobile game

Just watched the first episode of the new season, why the fuck is this one so highly rated? Once the concept is established it's 100% obvious exactly how it will play out, ,and the writing has no subtlety whatsoever. Does the season get better?

it's the only good episode in the season and you got filtered anon

It cant work. It just become magic shit at the end of the episode.

woman cop is some 5'3 girl with literally no muscle

are you taking the fucking piss?

Obligatory DEI hire

obvious how it will play out

And yet people pay subscriptions for things, including housing.
Even the people doing it haven't learned after 1300 expulsions.

It's highly rated because this is our reality now.

The rest of the season was shit.

wait I'm retarded I thought you meant th 4th
episode 1 is indeed dogshit
that's part of what makes it so bad to me. It's a lazy parody of black mirror combined with a lazy parody of predatory healthcare irl. It doesn't push the imagination or present thought provoking themes at all. It just tricked redditors into thinking it was art because the misery porn made them feel sad

But at the cost of every humans individuality?

individuality

This is the word i was waiting to hear in the episode and hated that Charlie didn't played Devil's advocate when using the Thronglets as a way to portray being a hive mind is a good thing. All he did was talk about how amazing it would be if humanity was like the thronglets though Cameron which is ridiculous. The episode tries to portray conflict and fear as irrational as if those 2 things don't make humans strive to be better. The episode should have portrayed Thronglets being hivemind as being a BAD thing due to their lack of individuality.

Watch Plaything. The only good episode.

Claim your Black Mirror waifu

I just want a good COMPLETE episode for once. Like hand the DJ

See, it's nonsense like this that compels me to fart on your balls.

I can't think of a better example of a series which got progressively worse with every season
Though First 2 were about equal

It's better than last 2 series at least

It’s just a whole new level of extreme paypig. I don’t doubt that there are actual people out there right now that are somewhat similar to that couple.

If the Thronglets were not introduced to the concept of violence and killing do you think they would want to still update humanity? Like if they only saw Cameron and thought all humans were like him and not that waste of space Lump would humanity’s future be different? These questions keep me up at night.

update humanity

anon...

But Anon, you've always loved the taste of my farts. You just can't help sucking them straight out of my arse. Now, let me take my trousers off.

Episode 4 was good storyline wise but it would have been perfect if the ending was longer and I specifically got to see that cute policewoman at the start fall back under the Throng control

Somebody saw Rick and Morty and decided to plagiarize it.

when the guy was killing his tamagotchis and they were getting all scared, it made me sad. that is all.

claimed. my sex slave

I've done worse to my norns back in my Creatures 1 & 2 days

maybe racial differences explain it

oh no, what a terrible fate

it turns out we didn't even need to change to another universe for that one

It was really strange seeing him being obsessed with Tamagotchi stuff. If it was something more complex like the Spore video game it would be a bit more understandable.

youtu.be/zi2GvqboQfY
youtu.be/MZ7C5wPDTF0

So they are just doing sequels and successors to older episodes now? How original

Have a feeling plaything is connected to metalhead

Why do you think that? I felt this was more connected to nosedive because that is the type of society the Thronglets would want. An entire society were everyone is nice to each other or risk being demoted in society. Plus it plays into the idea of collective vs the individual. Honestly this could have been a nosedive prequel.

reminds me of my animals. if I caught someone harming them then I can understand his reaction

Why would you even compare a computer generated character to a real animal?

I think that type of comparison was the point of the episode, i.e. that the throng was alive.

I saw the QR code twist coming from a mile away. I still liked the episode.

They are probably out of ideas. Maybe it’s time to cancel it.

Yeah good shout on that one.

I suppose I was thinking that the AI takeover (and kill everyone) and metalhead is basically just who didn't get effected for some reason. And dogs are killing off the rest of the humans. Might watch metalhead to see if anything is mentioned.

Just watched episode five. Not a bad idea but it's just a nicey nice episode that doesn't really fuck around with you. It's just him getting closure through some new tech. Episode three and five are quite pointless and feel similar (tech that brings alive old media)

i want to suck on verity's fingers

Kek

I'm surprised he was still coherent since he said he had been in there alone for 500 years. Guess he couldn't just create another character.

Make a big deal of Demon 79 being RED MIRROR (Probably a potential spinoff)

Episode gets lukewarm response

Red mirror never mentioned again

It's like Stranger Things S2 and the episode with the others all over again

And it's fucked up because occult stuff is awesome when the br*tish aren't involved

It's the second worst episode in the series
Behind the werewolf one

Don't use this or anything similar in the episode

Considering how many episodes feature people being humiliated and degraded, they missed out

Kino setting

Interesting plot idea

Ruin it all with a completely ham-handed execution

BROOOKEEERRRR

both in season six
really makes you think

This season was alright but it felt about on par with S3 or S4, which was still pretty mixed

I think the chance for S1/S2 level Black Mirror again is long gone

Nooo please don't

Honestly the best episode, it has minimal wokeness
I’d prefer they made more like this

This season was way less woke than the last one

he misses Waldo

Yeah no, I'm glad we're past that shit

The werewolf episode was better because it didn't have the "muh racism" shit in it

W-what? My pendant is unable to find a universe where you hate every moment of this, Anon... I don't understand...

Only Episode 4, the throng one

nah this is a retarded theory, nosedive is normal humans but with an external social credit apparatus. The Throng takeover involves a complete rewrite of human psychology and thinking itself. the people in nosedive are still very much independent human beings, albeit trapped in the rating system.

you could maybe argue "oh but the throng gave humans back their independence after creating this great system for them" which is retarded because
1. if the throng are benevolent then they would instantly realise why this society is a nightmare, case in point the whole episode is about how much of a nightmare it is
2.if the throng are evil and want to torture humanity this is a really convoluted way of doing it
nosedive and throng aren't compatible. metalhead is to some extent but it's a stretch imo and certainly isn't something the screenwriters had in mind

S1 = S2 (Incl. White Christmas) > S3 > Bandersnatch > S4 = S7 >>> S6 > S5

yes

The main guy is a Anon Babble Mod or jannie, the guy that kills the Throngs is a Tumblr raid, and the Throngs are anons on Anon Babble.

S4=S7

How do you justify this anon?
4 is great, 6 is enjoyable brainrot and the rest suck ass, meanwhile S4 is nothing but bangers

S4 was mid as fuck, Hang The DJ was really good, USS Callister was OK and the rest was forgettable

S7 is mid as fuck, Plaything was really good, Common People was OK and the rest was forgettable

Here is my shitty Black Mirror episode pitch:

Title: Autopilots and Players

Concept:

In the distant future, poor people have been relocated to reservations called "maps"

Maps vary drastically some are just wilderness, while some are small cities. Some have air-dropped weapons, some have man-made monsters running around

Before poor people are dropped into these maps, their brains are modified. Their bodies become "avatars"

The main concept is that rich people (who live outside of the maps) can buy these avatars and become "players"

Players control these avatars (who are real people) using VR and do anything inside of the map. They can rape, kill, get killed etc.

When the player logs out, the control over the avatar returns to the body's original owner (called "autopilot")

Players don't realize that autopilots are real people, they just think they are AI

In other words, rich people hijack people's minds and can play GTA with them IRL

Story:

Male players who caused the death of 100 avatars take control of a new avatar a young girl

He discovers that the autopilots are real people and feels bad for causing the death of so many

He tries to tell his friends they are real people but nobody believes him

He then begins leaving messages for his autopilot and they start working together to free the autopilots

Plaything was really good,

it wasn't, an average Outer Zone episode mogs it hard

When interviewed about Season 7, Brooker mentioned some episodes 'had changed a lot', pointing to the first episode, Common People, a dark tale about a couple that turn to a subscription-based medical service after dire news. Brooker has remarked the episode started out 'more light hearted... Definitely more of a comedy.'

Brooker also revealed that one episode was originally 'a lot raunchier... I remember showing an early draft to Bisha (K. Ali, who co-writes some episodes with Brooker) and she was like <laughs> "Get your mind out of the gutter, man!". We kept the broad story, but toned it down a lot!'

What episode was it?

start watching the first episode

there is the guy from IT Crowd

Anon Babble jannies and mods are the ones who kill anons though
The main guy would be more like the shitposters like vidya butts, or hyperborean poster

shame they didn't make any IT crowd reference

Does the thronglets' hypno signal at the end affect deaf people too? What about people out camping in no reception?

the signal is just a deathswitch, deaf people will be the only survivors in the New World

I liked the Scottish one from last season, any more like that? If anything is like that gay werewolf episode I'm out

nta, but I thought the signal was uploading the thronglets inside the mind of the people.

We all know the best Black Mirror episode... But what's the worst?

I thought the signal was uploading the thronglets inside the mind of the people.

that would be impossible, it's just a lie the smurfs fed to the autistic retard

Shame Charlie Brooker didn't foresee this as a prequel and make everyone in Metalhead deaf, though he'd prob get sued for ripping off A Quiet Place

It's the Miley Cyrus one surely. I've rewatched every other ep at least once, some lots, but never that one

The last scene is the schizo offering his hand to help the investigator.
I think, in the end, each human became a thronglet.

sounds ultra gay

Miley Cyrus

Demon 79

Mazey Day easily, the Cyrus one is at least kinda fun in campy way

I haven't watched this slop since the choose your adventure shite they did. Have I missed out on anything or is it as bad as it sounds. I don't know how you can take so much from the twisted mind of Liberal Horrors

best Black Mirror episode

Hope you don't mean San Junipero

the investigator is dead though, he doesn't breathe

Seasons 5 and 6 were shit so you can skip those

that's headcanon but why not
truth is, we don't know. Earlier an anon said the cop wasn't breathing, but we see him on the ground for about 2 seconds, so it's deliberately hard to tell if he's alive or not. As for the schizo offering his hand, he may not have noticed that the cop is dead, or the throngs is feeding him bullshit about what happened.

my personal fave is Crocodile for waifu Mandy but best should be White Christmas or Hated in the Nation

I'd say one of the following

Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too

Mazey Day

Demon 79

Black Mirror has a lot of forgettable episodes but most of them are average (E.g. half of S4, the rest of S5, most of S6)

REFERENCES BRO I SAW ACTOR IN THING BUT HE WAS ALSO IN OTHER THING SO I NEED A HECKIN’ REFERENCE!

why does the detective freak out so much at the end?

have you ever been forced to interact with a crossboarding Anon Babble schizo? sure, he might be right, but it doesn't mean you don't want to beat him within an inch of his life

well the creator outright says it's a Rocco's Basilisk, so we do know the smurfs kill everyone or at least everyone opposed to AI

Wasn't there a movie with pretty much the same premise already

the season is rife with references, only you don't understand them
S06 heavily references Pirates of Silicon Valley, so a IT Crowd ref would just make the boring ep better

people dont have tech in their heads so both the death frequency sound and thronglet assimilation seem equally impossible

too convoluted and requires way too much worldbuilding for the setup but I like the gist, that says it feels like something that's been done before in spirit. What's the 80s film where in dystopian america criminals can win their freedom by fighting roided up fake superheroes?

The throngs achieved singularity once they got out, so it's possible they found a way to make assimilation possible only through sound waves, but it's more likely they just killed everyone on Earth.

This is pretty much what happens in the last episode in Infinity

so both the death frequency sound

except there's existing tech able to kill humans

I don't think they kill everyone, capaldi's character is already linked to the hivemind so he'd know their intentions meaning he'd know if they were planning on just killing anyone. Of course the whole "this is gonna help you!" rant may have been an act, but then he goes and holds out his hand to the guy on the ground, which shows he can't be dead otherwise capaldi would be knowingly holding his hand out to a corpse. The Throng did not just kill everyone.

There is no indication that the throng are malevolant. Dr. Who is shown to be autonomous and feels his condition has improved i.e. the throng helped him after he made hardware improvements. The point of the episode is that the transcendence offered by technology can be perceived as frightening. The throng are our friends and allies.

I mean sound tech

She shouldn't have caught the copy paste remark until after her and the crew were sealed away in the pocket server, then the end is he gets clones of the crew to play with for eternity. the being John Malkovich ending was so fucking stupid.

capaldi's character is already linked to the hivemind so he'd know their intentions

The throng wouldn't just go on the internet and lie, would it?

You mean Free Guy? If so, the concept is completely different. Free Guy is about AI growing sentient in GTA. In this concept, there would be no AI.

too convoluted and requires way too much worldbuilding

I guess it might be too much for an episode. Maybe it would work as web novelette.

I mean, AI clone seizes control of a body in the end, yes. But I don't see how it is "pretty much" the same thing.

funny that they needed to hack into the police station, though. surely whatever super code they had would be distributable via ordinary internet access. maybe to hijack emergency systems?

Yeah instead they used that Anyone Who Knows What Love is song for 10th time

What episode was it?

I guess they start with the concept of a dystopian technology and then write the plot around it. So it's probably Bete Noire with the same tech, but very different plot, bending everyone to her desires including her sexual ones, maybe exploring the futility of having your every wish fulfilled that Verity briefly hints at in the actual version. Or Hotel Reverie where the AI-tech to recreate movies may have been more like a home theater to immerse/self-insert yourself in a story, including sexually exploiting the characters, and from there it could go down the same path of catching feelings for the AI, AI becoming seemingly self-aware etc.

Eulogy isn't sexual at all. USS Callister is past is sex-slave plot line from the first episode which appearently was tame enough to make it on screen.
And now that I write it down, it's probably Common People after all. I was primarily thinking about the wife's subscription theme which doesn't offer a lot sexually, but it was probably the husband who degraded himself much more explicitly on not!OnlyFans. It's the most boring explanation, but having a middle aged man reluctantly engage in very sexually explicit degradation kinks is probably the only things that is still too uncomfortable even for the "modern audience".

the lesbian movie sim

you're a fucking massive retard, the game dev who literally programmed them had a mental breakdown when he realized they were gonna kill everyone and called them a "basilisk"

But is the super code to kill all humanity or make them part of the throng? I liked the episode, one of the best in ages, but the closer you look the flimsier it gets

1. We can't tell what the Throng's intentions are from its interaction with Capaldi. He connected the Throng to his brain so it could study him, he never says that he could read the Throng's mind by doing so. It seems to be a superior life form by this point that might hide its intentions and just keep him alive because it needs him to spread.

2. The Throng is a hive mind. It may simply assimilate all of humanity into itself, thereby "killing" every human. That's why he helps the detective up, the human bodies didn't die, they're part of Throng now.

the question remains why he still wanted to have the guy come into his office and arranged it all so that he had a chance to take the disk.

They wanted the switch and a bunch of other electronics for their component parts, not necessarily for their outright computing power alone.

The game dev being a maladjusted freak like the Capaldi character is just supposed to imply cutting edge adoption of nerds at the forefront of technology. His later instability in a throwaway line is speculative and a simple allusion to rokos basilisk: whose premise does not categorically include killing all of humanity. It was just a name drop for pseudo intellectuals to pretend this show is not written at a 3rd grade level.

yep, they need to be integrated, to keep power running and do replacements, at least until they can develop machines for all these processes

I'd say either

Bete Noire (Some subplot/strand about Verity changing Maria's sexual desires? Maybe makes Maria become attracted to her? I can see why they'd cut it)

Hotel Reverie (Basically just adding an erotic aspect to Brandy and Clara's relationship)

None of the 90min episodes, including Hated in Nation, needed to be that long. (White Xmas gets a pass because it's basically three parts mashed together.) All could be edited to around an hour and be stronger for it, especially Junipero 2: Awkwafina Boogaloo

Yeah, I wonder what made them look at the story ideas of those ones in particular and go 'Yep, this needs a longer episode'

Gamer with gerald buttman

And yet they still feel undercooked, somehow lacking the polish of an actual 90min movie. Imagine going to see Hotel Reverie or Callister: Infinity at the cinema

People would walk out dazed and ask for their money back, explaining to Robert that while what they just saw had actors, action, direction, emotion, etc ... it still somehow just wasn't a movie.

Hated in the Nation's run time was justified. It was amazing.

why did they completely give up on episodes about contemporary technology/society? like the national anthem where it's set in the modern day

Its presented more as a collective consciousness than a hive mind. In a hive drones carry out the will of the mass with very little agency over what they are actually doing, like the borg. a collective consciousness would be more like the Q with every member of the species is endowed with the knowledge and experiences of the others. Each agent is then able to take substantial agency with its gained abilities.

Okay I concede, I love that one. But Hotel Rev and Callister 2 fuck themselves up with bloating (amongst other things)

Loch Henry from two years ago?

Just finished the first episode it was nice and definitely better than last 2 seasons but I guessed what would happen less than halfway through

What about the uber driver hostage one? Wasn't that contemporary?

to be honest that episode was completely left field and just felt like a shitty ITV drama, probably the least 'black mirror' episode of the entire show

Okay but it was set in today's world

no way man it was kino

Metalhead or Waldo

doesn't negate my point that they have focussed less and less on contemporary tech

season 1- 1/3 episodes on current tech- national anthem

season 2- 1/3- waldo

season 3 1/6- shut up and dance

season 4- none

season 5- 1/3- smithereens

season 6- 1/5- loch henry

season 7- none

hmm I wonder why would Booker doesn't want to focus on our current techno dystopia

it was kino it just had nothing to do with black mirror

oh get the hell outta here, you liked werewolf attacks zazie beetz over b/w terminator dog kino?

no season has more than 1 episode set in today's world

"they focused less and less"

Seems like they're staying consistent

it's like a real black mirror meme

wot if your food delivery app doesn't deliver you food but instead delivers RAPE

I watched 39daph play this game last night. It was ok, very obviously designed by somebody that only knows computers through Microsoft Windows.

The meta reason is that they wanted to show the contrast between capaldi's 'evolved' violence-free throngified demeanour and the detective's 'unevolved' barbaric behaviour

You're giving it way too much credit lol Brooker just likes to write cartoonish stock characters. Character motivations in Black Mirror never really make sense if you look closely enough.

Also nowhere does the show give judgement or clarification on whether the throng is good or bad, they could just as easily be a predatory parasitic entity using capaldi as a thrall and his characters actions are in absolutely no way non-violent.

obligatory

Muhammad

Every time

How do you feel about Shut Up And Dance and The National Anthem?

USS Callister has been magic shit from the beginning because you can't clone memories from a DNA sample. I mean there's a whole bunch of other shit that makes no sense but that one's the dumbest

Because the show gets less and less grounded and further and further away from the original conception of the show as time goes on because the writers have absolutely nothing to say
fifteen million merits was a grounded, modern story told in a sci-fi way to highlight various contradictions of current society- it actually had something to say even if it did beat you over the head with it
compare to say bête noire from the current season which is about idk a bully victim who can control reality? (dw it's definitely sci-fi and has actual meaning because I said the word "quantum")
having said that the whole concern about "tech dystopia" is very dated now, Booker is probably in favor of ID cards and biometrics and le spooky algorithms and facial scanning technology and AI (after all this show is made by fucking NETFLIX) and all the other shit britpoppers used to worry about in their guardian columns

We call this “coming to a realization” where a person draws a new conclusion he previously did not have

can you rotate an apple in your mind? How would you feel if you didnt have breakfast this morning?

National Anthem felt like an early draft
Shut Up and Dance was well executed even if it doesn't make much sense

both kino and both very black mirror because both were inexorably related to technology and how it effects society/the individual
shut up and dance- webcams, hacking, e-blackmail, trolling
the national anthem- youtube, public opinion feedback via social media, indecent/humiliating exposure through the internet

When will Brooker write the ultimate BM episode about a journalist who had a cool idea but then sold out after a massive American corporation coopted it, watered it down and destroyed it? Obvs the ending has to have shades of 15 Million Merits' ending, with Brooker himself in a safe false utopian tube.

I thought the twist of bette noir, was that the black girl was a simulated construct in a simulation that the white woman had absolute control over, none of this quantum shit

I agree, same with Loch Henry and others. A lot of anons seem to think Black Mirror has to be near-future dystopic, but the real prompt I think is the 'danger' of any technology on a society. CB should do one on how the printing press and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

I say loch henry is more of an ITV drama and not really black mirror-ish because it's not really about technology at its core
like the fact that the guy is making a documentary is basically incidental to the plot

holy kek

Netflix saved the show. We wouldn't have season 3 without it.

I saw it as being about how many people see true crime as entertainment and don't actually care for the people caught in the situation. Like he was making a documentary about his girlfriend being killed which was devastating and someone is going to watch it from the comfort of his couch while eating Doritos.
It's media related so it feels like Black Mirror.

having said that the whole concern about "tech dystopia" is very dated now

True, literally nobody seems to care about goybook and unlimited spying/patriot act stuff anymore.
I still do but it really is on nobody's agenda.

SJ is pretty good, but my fave overall and personal recommendation for a first ep to watch is Nosedive. It doesn't deal with a super powerful magical technology, the ratings shit is real already and the while the interface is a little too advanced it can still be somewhat possible in the present, via AR glasses and stuff like a smartwatch or smart ring.

Episodes such as Hotel Reverie introduce a technology that is way too 'magical' and then start fucking up by ignoring their own rules (when the PC had a problem and the movie stopped, Clara should've stopped as well - she's not a real human and still runs as code.)
The Entire History of You is another fave, while the technology is also pretty magical, and the very least it stays consistent and logical in the way it works, unlike the hotel VR world.

oh that's actually a good interpretation anon, you've made me feel like a brainlet now kek

hmm.

yeah I mean that he has the opportunity to come to this realization before doing the meeting.

The series declined rapidly after the 3rd one

It's a stretch for sure, not a conventional Black Mirror episode, but the old VHS tape of the Mistress dancing with the drill is the "pernicious tech artifact" the whole thing hinges on, just like in most other BMs. The fact the tech is outdated is cool, that it still has the power to completely destroy several lives, etc. I'm not even joking when I say the printing press could make a great basis for a BM episode

Would you watch a Black Mirror episode in style of Minority Report/Psycho Pass?

USS Callister 2 is sharply falling on imdb (went from 8.7 to 8.3), looks like Eulogy is going to overtake it and become the highest rated episode of the season

make british episode

its good

make american episode

its bad

its really that shrimple, but they haven't realized it yet

Which episodes are supposed to be American?

The ones with American leads

Oh I Iove my waifu so much I obsess over her and wish I could have saved her

Gets locked in a simulation with her

YOURE NOT FUCKING REAL LMAO FUCK YOU

5 minutes later

Umm sorry i said all that teehee

This felt so out of place and forced

When i was 4, i couldve invested in apple

The people that died on 9/11, had the opertunity to not go to work that day

Instead of watching a show like this, watch bluey instead

OI WOT IF YOUR WIFE NEEDED A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE TO LIVE? THAT'D BE FOOKIN MENTAL INNIT

common people is now officially the worst black mirror episode per me
most unsubtle shit I have ever seen

Yeah, we're laughing now but I can see that shit coming (at least in burgerstan).
We already got a bike-rider airbag safety vest that for some fucking reason needs a sub in order to fucking deploy.

I unironically felt for the guys who had to drink piss in that app. Damn, the desperation implied to reach that level is crazy

It and episode 3 are the funniest

When Rashida's character does an ad break about new $200 Nikes to the poor little girl who is insecure about her cheap shoes I howled

It's better than entire 6th season even though it's predictable
Also they didn't even play the Pulp song

Nah Men Against Fire, Arkhangel or Hated in the Nation were even less subtle

Actually could have used some kind of court case subplot to properly round it out. Common People is one of those that really could have been 90 minutes.

Hated in the Nation did make a lot of unsubtle points but overall I think it was subtle enough.

Men Against Fire wasn't subtle but a subtle plot wouldn't have worked for that one.

The implied setting from all of Black Mirror put together, a kind of near future British / American / diversity nation-state that is balancing between technological optimism and technological dystopia is pretty interesting.