Television Black Mirror | Season 7 out April 10th

Finally seen the red mirror demon ep.

Pogue Mahone said:
Just finished the season last night. Looks like I may be in a minority of one in this thread but I loved Demon 79. Perfect blend of horror and comedy and nailed its sense of place and time. Excellent performances from both leads and the demon was such a great character.
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I enjoyed it it as well. I get why they looped it on hoping they can start a spin off genre so in that sense it makes sense.
Would have liked one more actual black mirror type episode. But feel like the ideas aren't fully there.

I'd actually watch red mirror though
 
Got very little faith it’ll ever get good again.
 
Maagge said:
I think reality is just a bit too close to it these days.
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Isn’t that partly what makes it good? Half the technology in early episodes, was technology that didn’t feel hugely far fetched and were just an extension of the paths we are already going down. It was really interesting how those technologies influenced us in unforeseen negative ways. Such as the one with the device that records everything you do. And you can play it back. We saw how it fed into the characters jealousy and created a self destructive path.
 
Not as good as it once was, but it’s still one of the best things on tv. Half of the last season were as good as the median episode of everything that went before.
 
UnrelatedPsuedo said:
Not as good as it once was, but it’s still one of the best things on tv. Half of the last season were as good as the median episode of everything that went before.
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Really? I genuinely couldn’t tell you what a single episode of the last season was about.

EDIT: Just refreshed my memory and a couple were decent. It was actually S5 that was largely terrible. Final two of S6 were trash though.
 
Solius said:
Really? I genuinely couldn’t tell you what a single episode of the last season was about.

EDIT: Just refreshed my memory and a couple were decent. It was actually S5 that was largely terrible. Final two of S6 were trash though.
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Thought Beyond the Sea was good. Joan is Awful decent too. Loch Henry was good but not Black Mirror (as in it wasn’t what it’s about, it was a horror/ thriller). The Demon ep was terrible and I genuinely don’t remember a thing about Mazey Day, both also Horror episodes and not very Black Mirror.
 
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Aren't we getting a USS Callister sequel. Not sure how they can continue with that story. They wrapped it up pretty good last time. Writers must be out of ideas.
 
Finally got round to season 6

Joan Is Awful , I liked it, thought it was well done, but would have liked a better ending.
Loch Henry , EXCELLENT , best of the season, did not see the twist coming, did not have a clue.
Beyond The Sea , another I thought was very good, when Cliff did his space walk you I guessed what was going to happen, a very enjoyable episode.

Now the 2 that most on here dont like.

Mazey Day , I sort of liked it, the concept of stars being hounded by the paparazzi was a decent oneThe rehab was very believable, but then there was the werewolf WTF, what were they smoking when they thought it was a good idea

and the last one.
Demon 79 , now I have to admitting really likening it. The horror comedy vibe works very well, the interaction between the Devil and Nida was good. Paapa Essiedu I thought was very good.
The ending yeah I liked it, Gaap was telling the truth.

The last 2 were not really BM episodes , more like Twilight Zone episodes.
 
I didn't really enjoy the last couple of seasons but it looks interesting, hoping for the best!
 
Hope it's good but just can't shake off the feeling that the Americanisation of it has made some episodes really wank.
 
Twins said:
I didn't really enjoy the last couple of seasons but it looks interesting, hoping for the best!
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Agree. Personally thought we weren’t getting any more episodes of this as you say the last few seasons were much lower quality than the earlier ones. Like they ran out of ideas.

Hoping for the best indeed.
 
The interest in this appears to reduce with every passing season. I'll still definitely watch it but its definitely long past its best.
 
Watched the first episode (Common People) just now. Couldn't stop thinking of that "what if ya mum ran on batteries" meme. It was fine, but felt like a rehash of what we've already seen.
 
I really liked Common People - first episode. It was bleak, depressing and dark. But yet so good. It felt like the first season again.
 
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Episode 2 (bete noire) what a load of bollocks :lol:

even if you ignore all the silliness up to the ending. Wouldn't Verity have foreseen that she might get killed? She's suppose to be a super genius, could she have just wished that thingy had no hands or something? Or that she couldn't take a life.
 
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Common People made me so sad to watch. It was a really hard to watch knowing the direction it's going and nothing to stop it

The smugness of that sales rep was brilliantly done
 
Just watched Plaything (yeah, I’m watching them out of order) and liked it. Nuts and bolts Twilight Zone style chiller. Reminiscent of OG Black Mirror. Bodes well for the rest of the season.

I liked the way the sound they used to take over the world was a distorted version of the noise a ZX Spectrum made when loading a game from cassette. Nice wee Easter egg for old feckers like me.
 
Hearing good things about Eulogy (Episode 5) as well. It headlines Paul Giamatti.
 
Common People was really good. Was like early seasons of the show.
 
Find this show exceptionally hit and miss, with most episodes massively too long, but thought I'd check out series 7.

Actually loved Bete Noire, but a heck of a rushed finish.

Hotel Reverie I had to fast forward I found it so dull.
Common People ok.

Plaything ok.

But not quite sure why this program is such a cult classic.
Inside Room 9 was much more my thing, shorter snappier episodes with big swings late on.
 
horsechoker said:
Episode 2 (bete noire) what a load of bollocks :lol:

even if you ignore all the silliness up to the ending. Wouldn't Verity have foreseen that she might get killed? She's suppose to be a super genius, could she have just wished that thingy had no hands or something? Or that she couldn't take a life.
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I was hoping it was going to be that she could hack in and deepfake photos / emails / videos but the whole parallel reality was a cop out imo. Really could have leaned into the fact that we can almost not even trust any evidence at this point.
 
Episode 1 was pretty good and I was thinking "Oh it might be back".
Episode 2 was an absolute dumpster fire.
 
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Common People was pretty devastating. As someone who has had issues with dependents needing to rely on health insurance, it didn’t feel so much dystopian as a commentary on where we are now. Very sad and really well acted by both leads.
 
Got the finale to watch, which I’ll probably do tonight. So far for this season I think I’m:

Ep 5 (Eulogy) > Ep 1 (Common People) > Ep 4 (Plaything) > Ep 3 (Hotel Reverie) > Ep 2 (Bete Noire)
 
Sandikan said:
Find this show exceptionally hit and miss, with most episodes massively too long, but thought I'd check out series 7.

Actually loved Bete Noire, but a heck of a rushed finish.

Hotel Reverie I had to fast forward I found it so dull.
Common People ok.

Plaything ok.

But not quite sure why this program is such a cult classic.
Inside Room 9 was much more my thing, shorter snappier episodes with big swings late on.
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Inside no.9 is better, agreed, but it has the benefit of Shearsmith and Pemberton in (virtually) every episode. The scale is a lot more grounded too. It’s tighter, more introspective, much more charming.

Black Mirror is bigger and bolder — it deals with the double-edged sword it got handed once it hit Netflix.

Early season stuff of Black Mirror is easily the best (Entire History of You, White Christmas etc.) but it still has had its share of bangers in the Netflix era.
 
I wasn’t a fan of Bete Noir either. Not really a fan of the episodes that are too out there to relate to.

I thought Eulogy was really poignant though, another really well acted one.
 
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