Black Mirror
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i'm a big andrew scott fan so my first watch was "smithereens," and while most reviews call it the weakest of the bunch, i found it an intriguingly sublime departure from black mirror's tradition of hitting-you-over-the-head writing.
though the story in and of itself is simple and perhaps a bit drawn out, the layers of despair involved are quite staggering - the private vs state power, the mid-tier executive infighting over "exposure," the both hypocritical and deluded founder, to the average person's inability to deal with life-altering despair during life-changing times. capping it all off with a rather nonchalant dismissal of violence and it's a really stellar episode, perhaps because it dares to break the mold the show had cast itself in and dare to show the boredom of what has become everyday horror.