Not sure why everybody hated this one; I liked it a lot. I love stories where you're thrown into a situation with no backstory. The dog was awesome and the woman was quite resourceful. Gorgeous black and white cinematography, too.

Was really good, if a bit scattershot because of the three different stories. I liked how the consciousness transfer of the 2nd story melded with the electrocution story. The first story about the Doctor was probably the best and really twisted, but since that had nothing to do with any of the other stories or the spine (the museum story), it feels kind of tacked on.

This seemed more like an episode of Creepshow or some other horror anthology, than that of Black Mirror.

The actor who played Rolo was great, though.

Not sure why everybody hated this one; I liked it a lot. I love stories where you're thrown into a situation with no backstory. The dog was awesome and the woman was quite resourceful. Gorgeous black and white cinematography, too.

There were a few problems: first, Black Mirror is supposed to in theory all exist within the same universe: this clearly didn't. second, there was no technology aspect - it was just a hunter chasing a victim. third, black and white was kind of jarring. fourth, the surprise at the end was stupid. As a standalone 45 minutes of television, it wasn't that bad - it just isn't part of Black Mirror

Female lead in DJ was excellent.

I disliked the male lead in BM, even though I liked the story. To Fly’s point, neither BM nor Callister really grappled with the moral and ethical questions about maltreating what is essentially AI, and instead assumes simplistic clarity on that point, although in different ways. In Callister, it’s morally repugnant for Fat Damon to abuse AI simulations of everyone else, but acceptable on vengeance grounds for everyone else to do it to him. In BM, the teddy bear woman is a little more ambiguous, but it’s once again OK for the heroine to trap the museum keeper’s consciousness into an eternity of pain. Of course, the Callister issue relates to copies, but that distinction is never addressed from a moral perspective.

I liked Arkangel, if only because I have teenage daughters who occasionally bridle at parental restrictions.

Overall, I thought Callister was flat, and I thought perhaps that the annoying receptionist deserved an infinity of pain.

Metalhead reminded me of The Road, which was just a dystopia without hope of any redemption. I liked the black and white, although the plot had some holes. Why didn’t the wheel man start the van before going inside? Why did they need the van at all? And where were all the other dogs that showed up at the end? And why was there a dog behind a box of teddy bears? Fooling the dog by dropping bits of wood on it felt silly. Still, it was tense and kind of interesting.

I rather thought that hang the DJ was as much about determinism as anything else. The reason they rebel is the system’s maltreatment of them after Frank checks his timer to assuage his insecurity and it resets much lower. But for the actual test to occur, he has to have done so. Maybe I’m all wet here, though.

I bet what was in the box is something ridiculous like a teddy bear

Do you suppose that the "dating app" had to be developed using real people undergoing that process before becoming virtual?

Black Mirror, was looking forward to this season for many months, and I hope/look forward to future seasons.


Black Museum:

When the device was stuck in her head they said "initiate upload procedure"

Next, they put it in his head and said "initiate download procedure" it should be reversed, her brain should have been download, and uploaded into his brain... right?
lol...

I don't see how the same parameters would work - the simulated people were in the app for hundreds/thousands of simulated years, never aging over the course of 1000 replications.