Charlie Brookers 'Black Mirror' Trilogy

[Aventus]

I'm about to watch it. 

 

It wasn't showing on my app so I've been stressing for hours thinking my TV is too old for it, or Netflix are being cunts with me, and I couldn't remember the password so I couldn't load it on my firestick instead of the TV app

 

In the end it turns out I wasn't looking in the right place, it's under its own category, not listed with the other episodes. 

 

One man's battle with technology, with a twist ending, they should make that into an episode. 

[SasaS]

I'm a big fan but hopefully they have revitilized that choose-your-own-ending/plot interactive concept intelligently because it's something that has been around for 30 years now and has never taken on. Mainly because it makes no sense.

[manwiththestick]

Just watched it for the first time. It's really well made and the choices are seamless. The good thing is I can watch again and make different choices, my first go only lasted under an hour but it can run for 90 minutes depending on the path you choose.

 

Sugar puffs instead of Frosties next time around.

[Aventus]

11 minutes ago, manwiththestick said:

Just watched it for the first time. It's really well made and the choices are seamless. The good thing is I can watch again and make different choices, my first go only lasted under an hour but it can run for 90 minutes depending on the path you choose.

 

Sugar puffs instead of Frosties next time around.

Would be hilarious if the entire episode is dependent on what cereal you choose, and all the other choices are meaningless. 

[Captain Turdseye]

Fucking hell. Spoiler alert. There’s no point in the rest of us even watching it now. 

[Oh Buoy]

In the midst of this and I'm stuck in about the 15th fucking hole. I'm not entirely sure what's happened anymore. 

[Dr Nowt]

That was seriously impressive.

 

The Inside No 9 Halloween special just got a right shoe-ing.

[Bob]

We watched it last night and it was brilliantly disturbing.

 

there were times when I wasn’t sure if it was good or if I was just engrossed because I had to make another choice soon, then after a while I was laughing aloud at the direction it was taking and the choices I had to make, then I was utterly disturbed by the end and by my part in it.

 

brilliantly made, great TV, if that’s what it is? 

 

Charlie Brooker is a weird fucker though.

[Dr Nowt]

Hadn’t previously realised he used to be a video game reviewer.

 

 

[SasaS]

Don't have Netflix so I had to make do with the "official, linear Netflix approved" (whatever that is) non-interactive version that runs for about 93 minutes and apparently includes 60 or so "legitimate choices" (whatever that is).

 

In this format, it doesn't work very well, didn't enjoy it too much. Maybe it works when you make the choices yourself so you feel you are in control in leading the character this or that way. At the moment I feel this format would work just as a novelty you'd get tired of soon, or only if the subject matter is dissolution of reality, feeling of a loss of control, sanity.

 

I don't know. It feels like this might be just a glorified video game. Reinventing how we make and consume television, I don't think so. A bit disappointed.

 

Maybe it works a lot better on Netflix. Maybe this is what it's all about.

[Captain Turdseye]

New series out on Netflix on Wednesday. Only three episodes though. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I still think "Hated in the Nation" is one of the most genuinely disturbing things I've ever seen. 

[Captain Howdy]

New series is very good good I thought 

[Mudface]

On 01/06/2019 at 00:21, AngryofTuebrook said:

I still think "Hated in the Nation" is one of the most genuinely disturbing things I've ever seen. 

Shut Up and Dance and White Bear run it very close.

 

44 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

New series is very good good I thought 

Cool, that's tonight sorted...

[Numero Veinticinco]

I've only watched the first episode of the new season, but it was really bloody excellent. 

[Davelfc]

Just finished the first episode of the brand new series on netflix, just NO, how the fuck is that the same thing. Just fucking no!

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

I liked the new series but it lacked the grit of seasons passed IMO.

[Elite]

I enjoyed 'Smithereens' but wasn't keen on the other 2 episodes.

[VladimirIlyich]

New series is shite. The British episode starring the camp Moriarty from Sherlock was ok but the other two were abysmal.

[JagSquared]

I’ve watched the first two and don’t think the criticism has been fair. 

 

The first episode was pretty good but didn’t need the last 5 mins, it should have ended in the car between the husband and wife.

 

smithereens was pretty good I thought, you could see the twist coming but it was still well played out.

 

i think the problem the show has is that at its best is incredible but all of the episodes are engaging and entertaining. 

[Elite]

The British episodes are generally superior than the American ones, barring San Junipero and Black Christmas (wasn't that mixed? can't remember. Depressingly brilliant though).

[Thoth]

Watched all 3 and thought they were miles off the first 2 series, the last one with Miles Cyrus was truly awful 

[Numero Veinticinco]

If people want to see what poor and lazy writing actually looks like, they should watch that Miley Cyrus episode. She actually performs quite well as an actress, but the idea was really poorly executed, especially the ending. 

[Davelfc]

It seems to be a pattern with this new series that they have some brilliant ideas, they just have some poorly thought out endings. All of the first three I watched have poor endings, sorry correction two have poor endings and the first one just an annoying ending. Is Mr Brooker just a casual observer these days or has he sold out?

[Juniper]

Also a +1 for the new series being a bit disappointing.

 

Still a great show but the three latest weren’t very thought provoking and shocking as with previous.

 

That feeling of being very unsettled also throughout was missing, for me.

 

Didn’t find myself really thinking about each episode after I finished each of them as before.