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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 13, 2019 20:13:29 GMT
I don't know why we're posting here (in a topic saying: "rank" ) but anyway. Just saw Striking Vipers. The concept was ok but nothing really special like many other BM episodes before. The two leading were very very good and Beharie was also fine. I'd like it to be more based on tech (hell, it's Black Mirror). It was a nice episode but that was all. Not even close to the older ones.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 14, 2019 2:37:20 GMT
Watched the S5 eps. They're okay, short enough to more or less enjoy even while they were letting down. But I mean... very underwhelming little season, and sort of uncharacteristic Black Mirror being this....what's the word, appropriate? forgiving? dull? Striking Vipers best of the bunch bc I can't say I've seen something like this (Mortal Kombat meets Brokeback?) And it's at least somewhat interesting how it uses advanced tech interface (should I just say VR lol) to challenge or consider the mutability of sexuality, also it made me laugh whether that's intentional or not, and.… Mackie's solid, and I liked the wife played by Nicole Baherie, she stood out in that smaller role, made me wanna see more of her work. Ashley Too is ridiculous, more Disney Channel than Black Mirror, but I liked it initially with the girl’s celebrity worship, how out of her loneliness she depends on Ashley, then with robot-Ashley and its almost demanding flattery - but it gets far too tonally and logically goofy. Smithereens I couldn't get into bc I really, to put it mildly, dislike that actor Andrew Scott. He's been in the spotlight a lot lately but as an actor I find him obvious, off-key, and annoying all at once. The whole second half with his motive is as dumb as wet bread.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 14, 2019 3:03:52 GMT
For anyone craving something like Black Mirror.... also on Netflix, from this year.....
I Am Mother - 90% on RT from over 50 critics, which is way too high, it's flawed all over, but I found it an engaging good time anyway, bringing to mind Ex Machina, 10 Cloverfield Lane, and Moon. I like this type of compact, questioning environment of threes. It touches on some big ideas, though the first-time writer can't get it straight, it's overlong with about nineteen endings on top of each other. And the first-time director has good visual sense but the pacing is uneven and he should've guided the lead girl's perf better. Hilary Swank though (supporting) gives a strong performance - physical, refractory, desperate.
I'd say: worth a watch for sci-fi fans.
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Post by stephen on Jun 14, 2019 4:50:27 GMT
Smithereens: This episode works best if you watch it immediately after binge-watching the second series of Fleabag and imagine that Andrew Scott is playing the same character.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 17, 2019 20:11:15 GMT
Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too.
Maybe a little better than Waldo.
Or maybe not...
Started fine with the young girl having no friends and depending on the friendship of a doll. And then nothing happened... An episode way off the BB concept and one of the worst of the whole series.
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Post by EythorAH on Jun 17, 2019 20:25:08 GMT
My ranking before starting S5
The National Anthem 101 White Christmas 204 Fifteen Million Merits 102 Hated in the Nation 306 Shut Up and Dance 303 USS Callister 401 - Be Right Back 201 San Junipero 304 Hang the DJ 404 Arkangel 402 Crocodile 403 Black Museum 406 - Bandersnatch Playtest 302 Nosedive 301 Men Against Fire 305 The Entire History of You 103 Metalhead 405 - White Bear 202 The Waldo Moment 203
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 21, 2019 15:34:15 GMT
Smithereens.
Weak but not as much as the other two imo. Predictable, low-tech and dealing with a real-life issue... 10 years later!!
Still it has its moments and a (once again) fantastic Andrew Scott.
6/10
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jul 9, 2019 1:26:37 GMT
S5, E3 - Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too - this episode not make sense in relation to time period (her mother liked Pixies/Sonic Youth/Savages/IDLES - those are bands 30 years apart with nothing in-between - rings achingly false) While I wasn't really a fan of the episode overall, this didn't bother me that much considering people can often have a random assortment of favorite musical artists that doesn't necessarily follow a kind of temporal continuity. Like if someone asked me what kind of music I like, I probably wouldn't think twice about responding, "Beatles, Stones, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead" or something, and maybe not even in that order. Though another part of the episode that I found hilariously dumb was the idea that you can eyeball a brain scan and linearly extract a musical composition from it by identifying distinct notes by their pitch letter name: "Look, there's a G-sharp!" lmao
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