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- pango0
OMG!!! community did it first! LOL
- Ianbolton0
I missed last last night's, but I bet it's still better than 98% of most British TV.
- 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,
- neandersthal0
It was no Running Man.
Though I quite liked the credit sequence - insights into how the park functioned, how it was all put together and why. Felt a bit more sinister and dystopian.
- Ramanisky20
just discovered this little gem .. good stuff
- Discover Utopia too, if you haven't.i_monk
- actually funny you say that only caught the first scene in the comic book store .. just didn't have time to watch full ep.Ramanisky2
- i_monk0
Back for Christmas, and feature-length:
- babydick0
That was fun as fuck!
- Ramanisky20
such interesting ideas and I love the minimal sci-fi but why so few episodes?
only 3 eps per season ... I feel cheated
- i_monk0
This season was really tame compared to last. Did they have their budget cut or something?
- probably the opposite. More budget, more mainstreamanimatedgif
- i_monk0
It was two different but related ideas that shouldn't have been combined into one episode.
(And taking revenge on someone is hardly "justice". Any claim of moral superiority goes out the window when the punishment is for the gratification of onlookers. I'd sooner support the death penalty, as barbaric as it is, than torture theatre.)
- I'd be about as likely to support one as the other. Neither at the moment, but I don't have a personal need for vengeance.mikotondria3
- And justice certainly IS deputized revenge, in the 3rd person.mikotondria3
- DRIFTMONKEY0
My first round:
Dont talk about mom
Work from home alone
Go to homeboys house
Take drugs
Jump
- 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.
- Luesu0
I Love the first series.
- animatedgif0
Felt it would have been better if instead of a park built around tormenting one woman again and again they should have ended with an execution after the reveal.
Then the next day they were tormenting another criminal, so it was like an elaborate death penalty.
The phone pointing was overdone too, felt like babbys first statement.