Can’t have that anymore because of woke
Wot if yer roomba had a knoif?
Wot if yer mum was a computah?
Wot if yer fone new ya name
Wot eef there was an app on your mobile that summoned a weasel or a stout of your choice to bite your nippies until they’re all gone? People would have few nippies left on account of they’re always on mobile while standing on queue
there’s already an app that summons a stout
… iBeer
Wot if they replace Big Ben with a digital clock?
I would dub it Digi-Ben.
Season 1 and 2 + the Xmas Special are solid gold. It was a straight BBC joint then.
The themes and direction were clear and the show did what it set out to do. I enjoyed that. There are plenty of fair criticisms of the show, but pre-Netflix-collaboration Black Mirror has to stand alone.
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the dance monkey dance one in S3 was good as well but that was it
It always had a weird incel streak to it. I remember the creator something like “yeah I like to portray women being evil because something something maternal instinct”. The episode where the guy’s exwife cheated on him was classic incel bait.
Wot if your mate wrote a transcendental musical thst swept all of britannia and when the queen came to see it, his Xbox came on stage and said it had written the tune? That’d be a real trouser pinch
It’s amazing how 100% of the first season episodes were about people cheating on their partners. Also how obsessed the author seems to be about women cheating on their partners and having a mixed race baby. Oh yeah, i just remembered the “what if you could become a woman in a videogame and let your mate hit it?” episode.
“Bro? Is it gay to have sex in a video game with your best bro if you’re playing as a brah?”
Yes and that’s a good thing
“what if you could become a woman in a videogame and let your mate hit it?”
Well, whom amongst us hasn’t fantasized about that?
Tbh if someone made VR tech that let me feel what sex is like for a woman, I’d sign up immediately.
Take hormones for a while and itll change your orgasms up, including multiples
Lol that episode made me feel so WEIRD like damn why would dude be a guy in the video game
Wot if, a dude was a guy in a video game
Truly this is mind boggling. I would be a girl in a video game every time
Eh I guess some people like being dudes for whatever reason
Yeah there’s a clear drop in overall quality and curiosity between the original Channel 4 run and the Netflix episodes.
I could never get into Black Mirror because every episode felt like a poorly edited pilot, where the actors weren’t into their roles yet and never would be since it was a one-off and they’d stretch like at most 15 minutes of story out into an hour of not particularly good filler that went on way too long. Like I felt like Love, Death, + Robots and Black Mirror were functionally the same thing and both had about the same amount of story and content per episode, but where LD+R trimmed it a little too tight Black Mirror would just keep going and going without anything there.
You might find Inside No. 9 a better anthology series to watch. Less “wot if your phone was evil” and more surrealist cross-genre drama. It has a consistent cast and while one or two episodes are weak, overall it’s quite enjoyable.
oo this is the show I was trying to remember where smelly gabe locks everyone in a cupboard and burns the house down
Could be good, enjoyed it back in the day, but on reflection its kinda mid. Cyberpunk anthology series could have its day if writers generally understood “its not about how technology makes us bad, but using stories about technology to critique modern society”. Also stop having man main characters where the main tragedy is how the cute girl at the coffee shop won’t date them.
Wot if there was a microchip?
At’s prahpuh scary, innit?
Wot if, a British bloke made a tele show bout how his dame done cheated on em with a cellular?
Blimey that’s literally the show you made Charlie innit?
Oh, right-o
You should watch Channel 4’s Utopia. Dystopian scifi. It’s about a comic book fan club that is being pursued by a fascist deepstate. It was canceled after 2 seasons for being too violent. It has great visuals and a banger soundtrack too.
It’s a shame the premise is basically just accepting ecofash assumptions in order to be provocative, but the style and acting is great.
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I do not recall any real moment that the premise of the villains is challenged though, the challenge is “you cant be ecofash for moral reasons” and the head ecofash is constantly portrayed as a uniquely troubled genius.
Is there a potential future where a third season would reveal it to be all bullshit? Sure, but then it becomes bad television instead, since the ecofash narrative is one of the things that was innovative and challenging about it.
From what I remember, the ecofash are the villains. The villians has some ecofascist beliefs and are motivated by those beliefs, but I don’t think that the show itself accepts ecofascism. To me it was pretty clear that the show was saying ecofascism is bad.
It does say that but at the same time as it accepts the core premises and “question” of ecofascism, but it attempts to suggest a different answer for moral reasons.
Like if there was a show about IQ or something and the message was that you shouldnt oppress people for having lower IQ collectively.
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There are some parts that are legitimate issues to be concerned with, but the show places a huge emphasis on overpopulation specifically and not very much focus by comparison on matters such as resource allocation, economic systems, shit like that.
So you get a cabal of rich capitalists that get to essentially unchallenged* present the issue as one of all of humanity at once, and not one that they are directly and constantly perpetrators of. As with the other comment, is there a world where season 3 would critique this? Maybe, but that doesnt seem likely given that the provocative nature of the show is the supposed moral dilemma of population culling vs humanity facing extinction.
*Unchallenged in that the claims they present are not challenged on a factual basis, nor are the protagonists able to present any opposition in terms of what can be done about the issues but only on matters of morality, and the only protagonist who even has proper knowledge of the same issues is entirely convinced of the antagonists worldview and plan, while those that continue opposing the antagonists legitimately do not have knowledge of the issues.
Great series, there was a US remake that went one season. It was not as good as the original, and particularly it missed the fantastic sountrack.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Remember the episode about the “Cockroaches”…
I know people complain about stories when they aren’t subtle but sometimes its nice when you’re beat over the head with the “point” a story was trying to make instead of having to “read the bones” and hope you stumble on a somewhat close answer.
I thought it was about what if technology but scary
