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- rybo
Did anyone in the UK catch Black Mirror on Channel 4 last night? Charlie Brooker excelled himself in the writing of this..I saw the first series and was really impressed and the first episode of this series was great..
- fadein110
Excellent - got it to watch tonight.
Loved the first series.
- fadein110
If anyone hasn't seen the first series - watch it. Superb.
- yes, yes and yes.
Love everything Brooker does.
TVgoHome.com was the peak of the interwebs,mikotondria3
- yes, yes and yes.
- Ianbolton0
Maybe Brooker was having a go at the way women generally get attached to their mobile devices and that they probably fantasize about they boyfriend's pampering to all their needs. Women are weird!!
- I think he was obliquely criticizing both genders, I didin't detect any re or unconstructed misogyny.mikotondria3
- I wasn't being serious. We all have stupid affections for our electronic devicesIanbolton
- fadein110
^ but watch the 1st series.
- mikotondria30
- ...is the star, if that persuades you to watch it.mikotondria3
- GeorgesII0
So it's out,
I guess I'm not working tonight
- mikotondria30
It was a massive topic to try and do justice to in an hour - it would have been hard to make a workable character/plot arc even within a 2 or 3 hour movie - so much has to happen with and to characters to engage an audience enough to care about them, that trying to even scratch the surface of the implications of the technological topic was always going to be hard. Sci-fi like this is always about 90% run and 10% jump and shudder to think how much editing went on both during his script write and in the edit proper. The performances were good enough and the dialog was pretty authentic, an excellent job considering Brooker's real talent lies in invective, insight and acid critique at which he is unsurpassed.
I'd like to see him try his hand over a series, 10 hours or so - his insight into human nature and the particularities of English people is well developed, but I think he's stifled by the 1 hour format. An excellent start, the 1st series and what I saw of this 2nd - I hope he's given a bigger format for S03.- Hey, next time you write a review,
please give star ratings
GeorgesII - ****-mikotondria3
- (that's 4/5...)mikotondria3
- thanks a lot mikotondriaGeorgesII
- Hey, next time you write a review,
- Fax_Benson0
I thought it started really well but took too much of a leap with the "2nd phase". Way too much to pack into an hour and resulted in some pretty big plot-holes. I thought the very-near-future tech in the first half was well done, though.
- Fax_Benson0
And, as miko suggested, the girl in the lead role is very, er, watchable.
- pablo280
- i can't watch it in my fucking country!D4W33D
- http://expat-shield.…mikotondria3
- @ mikotondria3
HEY thank you so much dude!D4W33D - Nifty :)mikotondria3
- reanimate0
They are turning the 3rd episode of season 1 into a movie
- i_monk0
I know it was experimental/beta stage, but a company basically creates AI and simulacra life, and that's what they use it for?
- rybo0
I am really looking forward to tonights episode..