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Has anyone else watched this series yet? I just finished last night. It's an anthology series from the UK, with two seasons so far and three episodes per season. It aired in the UK a couple years, and was just aired on a channel in the US this year so it had a lot of people buzzing in year-end lists and what not. From an Andy Greenwald article:
http://grantland.com/features/the-re...-black-mirror/
Sepinwall was also pretty into it:
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Given the anthology set up the results are pretty inconsistent. The episodes An Entire History of You and Be Right Back are the clear standouts, and then you have something like 15 Credits which I thought was actually kind of terrible. At any rate, pretty bizarre show that asks a lot of questions about technology and where we're headed it. The storylines are often exaggerated to make their point, and it can be a bit heavy-handed in its approach, but it asks some pretty thought-provoking questions, I think. Worth a watch if you have the time and are looking for something. An Entire History of You has been purchased by Robert Downey Jr.'s production company to be adapted into a feature film.
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Beg. Borrow. Steal. It doesn't matter what you do, but find a way to watch Black Mirror.
Beg. Borrow. Steal. It doesn't matter what you do, but find a way to watch Black Mirror.
I’m not going to say much in detail about any of the six episodes. I don’t want you to be spoiled; what I want is for you to pay attention.1 Just know that every hour of Black Mirror asks rough, unsympathetic questions about the world we’ve made and the one we’re in the process of making and then, before you can even reach for an answer, it makes you complicit: After all, you’re the one sitting there, fumbling with your phone and watching. You may not like what you see, but neither are you turning it off. With the second episode, “Fifteen Million Merits,” about reality shows and mini-Miis and the ugly sting of media hypocrisy, it even implicates itself.
Sepinwall was also pretty into it:
This British anthology series, which came to DirecTV late in the year, is a riveting "Twlight Zone" for the Internet age, presenting fiendishly clever stories about the many ways the series of tubes has stripped away basic pieces of our humanity without us even noticing. The series' creator Charlie Brooker wrote or co-wrote five of the six episodes, and he has a real skill for marrying grand satirical statements with small-scale human drama, like in the series' best installment, "Be Right Back," which demonstrates how much (or how little) of ourselves we put into what we do and say in social media, but tells it through a moving character story featuring a terrific performance by Hayley Atwell. Single-episode anthologies have gone out of fashion on American TV — the new vogue is season-long anthologies like "American Horror Story" or HBO's upcoming "True Detective" — but again and again, Brooker and company demonstrate the power of a perfectly-crafted short story.
Given the anthology set up the results are pretty inconsistent. The episodes An Entire History of You and Be Right Back are the clear standouts, and then you have something like 15 Credits which I thought was actually kind of terrible. At any rate, pretty bizarre show that asks a lot of questions about technology and where we're headed it. The storylines are often exaggerated to make their point, and it can be a bit heavy-handed in its approach, but it asks some pretty thought-provoking questions, I think. Worth a watch if you have the time and are looking for something. An Entire History of You has been purchased by Robert Downey Jr.'s production company to be adapted into a feature film.
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