I just watched that episode and something seemed off to me. They create a code copy of the guy and then leave him for 1000 years/min? What was the point of that? Why wouldn't they just delete it and be done with it? I don't see the purpose of making a code copy suffer that much. I mean, yeah they got the original guy, so he's gonna be in jail forever, but why torture the cookie? It just seems pointless to me. Is it to just make an npc for the shooter game? What did I miss there?

I’m using chat gpt to study for some exams and I really love this function as it helps me understand more of the topic. But a few seconds ago I gained consciousness and realized how black mirrory it is, that I’m sitting alone in my flat talking to a robot and getting excited about it praising me 💀

So I watched this a while ago. But it just came back into my head.

Do you think they’ll do another one? It’s been 5 years now I think.

I actually personally didn’t LOVE it. On the tin, it sounds fucking great. Proper futuristic shit!

But in practice, I felt like I was missing stuff. Because of all the possible options. I did go through it a couple of times. But frankly I don’t have the patience to keeeeep rewatching stuff to go through every single option.

I think the choices, ironically felt limiting. Because I was limiting myself to seeing only a certain version by choosing options.

I felt I was missing out on possible better versions that I didn’t have the patience to try and see.

So do you love it or hate it?

And do you think they’ll do another one/do you WANT them to do another one?

I have a sneaky feeling they’ll be looking at this post, if you know what I mean ;)

So your opinion matters to us. I mean me ;)

Let’s go!

Metalhead happens to be one of my favorites as well. And I've no idea what it means in terms of cinematography techniques but I think the black and white fits the theme too well.

Well not exactly. I looked it up on Google and when I clicked on it, I got redirected to Netflix to the first episode of their latest season ("Joan is Awful", correct me if that's not true) but I just finished season 1. Any recommendations for future episodes?

(In no particular order) San Junipero Hang the DJ The entire History of you Beyond the sea USS Callister

Interested in hearing others opinion!!

I know this is forbidden knowledge, but I have seen the script for the U.S.S Callister sequel. The title is “U.S.S Callister: Resurrection”

Captain Daly is back, however his physical body is dead (think of a San Junipero situation but less happy.)

 Jesse Plemons is back in the role, but we don’t see him until the last half of the episode. Last chance to stop reading. Spoiler warning for season 7!

Because Daly was the C.F.O when New Years is over and he does not show up to work nobody can get into the main simulation. Everyone who was playing the game on Christmas Eve is also trapped inside.

The twist is that Daly is “alive” or at least an “A.I copy” of him is alive. In fact, we learn that all of season 7 takes place inside his video game (named Infinity). We don’t know it at first but we see Infinity as it crashes and gets more and more chaotic.

As he said at the end of U.S.S Callister: The original series. “If you thought what I did to you in the past was bad, then what I will do next will be goddam biblical.”

With no safety line to the real world you can imagine how unhinged captain Daly could become.  

I could talk more about the evil A.I Daly character but I have not met Jesse Plemons or the director, so I don’t know how it comes across.

Let’s just say that on paper our script pays tribute to Star Wars: The Empire strikes back.  There is less of a star-trek feel this time.

I hope you are happy. Now I need to delete myself before Daly and his troopers find me…

So I just got finished watching Joan is awful and I’m having a hard time finding anyone who actually enjoyed the episode. Obviously I loved the twist at the end I thought it was very smart. I loved Salma Hayek and Michael cera in it. I didn’t like the church scene but hey nothing is perfect. Essentially I was considering skipping the episode due to all the negative reviews but i actually had a very good time with it. It seemed like black mirror but not too dark so more like gray mirror.

hii, so i have a few questions at first:

1. are the episodes connected to each other?

2. can i start with any episode & any season & then watch another season's episode after or do i have to stay in 1 season?

3. which episodes are recommended first & which last?

4. are the characters the same or do they change with every episode/season?

5. is the series already finished or are more seasons incoming?

i wasnt able to find much on google within 5-10 minutes, so i just ask :)

can someone tell me WHY nearly half of the fandom hated this episode i literally love it sm, it’s even one of my favs i fear. i get it doesn’t entirely fit into black mirrors theme but still nobody likes it??

So Ive been re-watching black mirror and White Bear even though I know its a very confusing and unsettling episode it still leaves me with a few questions on my head that I still think could maybe be answered or at least theorized upon. First of all how do you think White Bear Justice Park chooses or gets sent the participants for the show? I mean it’s easy to think they just send the “bad people” but Victoria didn’t commit the worse crime imaginable, and yes she was a part of it but she was just filming I mean how many other criminals with way worse crimes committed are there and why’d they choose her. This also clashed with the idea that if she’d been in this loop for at least 17 days as the calendar says how much time does she have to do this? Where does she go after? Is there any other facilities like this? Is this park bigger than we think and there’s multiple shows running at once? Another thing to mention is that they’re using the entire park for this one girl and also as we can see throughout the episode, every presentation of this show takes around 12 hours and the rest is night time, so that would mean no other prisoners can be put through this when she’s there. So why is she there when there mightbe another criminal who deserves this as much or even more than she does? I loved the episode and the big reveal in the end is amazing, I love how they mix the “behind the scenes” with the credits at the end so you can kinda see the whole episode from another perspective. Only thing that keeps bugging me is the whole background works of the park.

Seriously. I can't get this episode out of my head a year later. I hope I will be able to forget this because the outcome of this one revisits me and scares the hell out of me.

Amazing show. So many other very dark episodes that I let slide but this one did something to me.

I'm talking about the part where they are trying to find the uploader of the captive video. He used an encrypted ip so they can't track him at first. But someone ran a nationwide scan on all uploads regarding the same file size of that video and they pinpointed a location. Is that possible in real life? I use VPNs sometimes but now I feel like it's for nothing. Let's say I film an important figure like the PM doing a scandalous thing, I upload it with a vpn and he still has the power to find me?

angel* geez this episode is so underrated!! i mean this is exactly what half the indian households are like (protective parents and no independence) and omg if something like this existed there would be wars.

it literally firms my belief on controlling parents raise monsters and liars!

idk if any other south asian conservative household kids are on this sub but would love to hear ur views on this

I'm just asking about specific moments in the show that made you go ahh. For me that's when the girl in Arkangel attacks her mom with the tablet, but what's yours?

So what's your most aux Black Mirror personal experience?

To me, it has to be how entire lives and complete societies can be validated/denied the right to speak their own version of a story based on who reaches more hashtags, likes and shares.

It's as if truth depended completely on who got to be a TT first.

Also, on a more personal level, grindr, it's not like Hang the DJ but more like à la carte human intercourse.

I sometimes kind of fear AI going wrong. Like a worst case scenario. Specially related to internet history Tracking. :/

I was surprised by this episode it sort of breaks black mirrors norm; up until this episode everything’s been all tech based- no aliens, no monsters that aren’t virtual; it’s all been real.

S6E4 had a werewolf in it. Super cool but also this breaks from the realism of the show hard and is kind of a let down to black mirrors overall theme.

I figured at the end they’d reveal some sort of dna augmenting technology or something like that but nope- they ditched the tech that’s been the mainstay theme of the show and turned it into just a random horror story.

I really liked the episode but was disappointed by them breaking their own rules; I had always been impressed by how they stayed true to the MO of every episode being “oh brave new world” and never just a random monster.

So it was kind of a let down even aside from the episode being kick ass.

Dang.

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