Talk about shit getting out of hand.
This is one of those episodes that makes us so mad
This one is also meh. The covering a murder with murder plot that gets out of end has been seen thousands of time. And the tech used is just a 1% version of the one in first season. So absolutely nothing new in the episode. Like Arkangel you pretty much guess everything that happens after a few minutes. Except for the guinea pig, but it's more of a joke than a twist. Can't say the acting makes up for it either. The icelandic scenery is beautiful though.
Functionally, the episode worked well, but the coincidences at the end just added up to levels of BS that were just too high. Woman killing baby, okay, I can kind of see it. Baby being blind, making murder pointless? Okay, that's convenient. In semi-darkness, subjective memory of pet rodent identifies killer? I don't know... Like I said, the episode works, but it feels like a cheat.
In all seriousness, I felt that this episode had potential with its beautiful setting and the enigmatic main actress. But it falls short and it feels like I'm watching the indulgence of a writer and director just wanting to do a murder story for fun but not really tying in any larger themes or clever uses of technology.
Who f****n kills a baby?!
I really hate her, she is heartless! Gosh, this is episode makes me very angry and nervous.
This episode made no gaddam sense... The minute this tiny stick thin chick killed that huge ass dude, I should have stopped watching...smdh.
Oh dear. Apart from the end this was "I Know What you Did Last Summer" in Iceland.
This season is currently poor in comparision with previous ones, it's not the acting, direction or cinematography or the ideas necessarily as they are often good or excellent. It's the realisation of the whole that is so disappointing (sorry came over all Mark Kermode there).
This episode could have dropped 20 minutes easily and been a much tighter and enoyable experience. I've rarely watched Black Mirror and checked my watch, sadly that happened too often in this and the previous episode.
Saved to a point by the ending, but for the most part too predictable and lacking character. I've not yet watched the rest of the season but this doesn't exactly inspire.
But how the hell did they actually get the memory from the hamster? I didn't even know that they could recall previous events, let alone remember them in such a vivid way that their visual cortex or what not was able to capture it and replay whenever the police wanted it to do that. Any animal experts/scientists/what not out there care to explain if this is actually possible or just a simple cheat for a simple ending? I enjoy black mirror a lot, but this episode wasn't that great.
Damn this episode put me in such stress
That was really boring. It could have been shorter !
The British episodes are so much better than the American ones.
They pour a lot of money into production but the story is banal and dull.
These eps are simple. Just people. and they really disturb you.
Talk about digging your own grave. People are very selfish beings.. we risk sinking deeper to save our own skin.
That escalated so quickly... priceless.
Oh God, i'm screaming infront of my computer "No, please you can't do that!" it made me physically uneasy afterwards. Ugh
Definitely one of my favourite episodes of Black Mirror so far besides San Junipero which I would describe as the polar opposite of this story. This was right up my alley with its bleak, dark nordic noir atmosphere and Andrea Riseborough as well as Kiran Sonia Sawar who were both phenomenal!
Tbh I think this was the worst Black Mirror episode up until now.
Man, how far are people willing to go to protect their secrets
This season keeps disappointing me. Halfway through this episode I jokingly said to my partner "They can use the guinea pig as witness if anything goes wrong!". Oh, Jesus Christ - I was so disappointed when that actually turned out to be true. It felt really cheap and the whole story felt recycled. It didn't feel like something we haven't seen before.
Second season-four dud in a row for me. The story was clichéd and could have been told without the SF tech.
Busted by the guinea pig.
Worst episode ever!
At least she gets what she deserves.
Wow, creepy. Definitely darker; didn't focus on the future tech enough IMO, but ok nonetheless. Not my favorite episode for sure. But that damn pizza truck - caused a lot more than just a broken arm.
jesus christ this episode is like...gaaaah.... it's frustrating, everything that happened here could be simply avoided i mean, she didn't even need to kill that first guy, given it was going to be an anonymous letter that probably wouldn't trace back to her, instead, shit got out of hand pretty quickly, i am just so completely mad about this episode i don't even know what to say
It made me sick, not just the main character but also the ending.
Oh, man... 3 minutes in and all I wanted was for the drunk driver to pay. Then he kinda does and it's all downhill from there.
Skipped this one after 10 minutes. Bad actors. Bad Idea.
The final beats become over-the-top Black Mirror in its simple reach for the grosteque for me, but otherwise this is a nicely nasty portrait of downward spiral, parallel with a compelling, interesting tech-aided investigation that keeps closing in on that spiral. Andrea Riseborough is fantastic throughout (I just watched Battle of the Sexes and barely recognized her at all in this), and director John Hillcoat really milks the empty landscape and bleak atmosphere for all their worth here.
8/10
Great and Brutal
and I loved how it
just kept escalating.
Man and this is her not
wanting to do what she
was doing, imagine if
she put her mind to it.
Loved this one and
found it extremely entertaining.
Solid writing
and solid episode.
Very smart and brutal episode. Also shot in Iceland so it was fun to recognize a few locations!
John Hillcoat knows how to direct fucking bleak and Andrea Riseborough for sure knows how to act out unstable and unsettling. It is this combination that makes one of the least realistic ideas of the show actually work. And, at least there was cool writing in the fact these horrific acts were only neccessary BECAUSE of the technology's existence in police circles etc.
Certainly some of the darkest shit ever, left me with a sour taste in my mouth and feeling dizzy for a good 20 minutes.
Godddd, I'm so fucking angry!!
Sad, slightly far-fetched as it develops but still deadly.
This is black mirror where technology just exists. Its impact on society is also being captured.
This could easily be a regular thriller story in the world where such a gadget exists. It was so ingrained in the narrative. Liked that.
The most depressing episode of Black Mirror I've seen, and that's saying something.
I Know What You Did Last Winter: Black Mirror Edition.
Could have been better but for sure still a good episode.7.2/10
Disgusting. Disgusting. Disgusting. Disgusting. Disgusting.
I didn't see anything special portrayed in this episode, aside from the scenery. The classic cover up story. Black Mirror has done much better.
Is part of Black Mirror ? (third episode of season 4: https://trakt.tv/shows/black-mirror/seasons/4/episodes/3)
It's like that sequence in Mulholland Drive where people continuously walk in on the dude's murder scene and he has to kill them to cover it up, except this is even funnier
Whoa... I don't recall any previous episodes being so violent. I'm not really feeling this season so far. Not nearly enough mind candy that the series is known for.
I never screamed at my laptop screen so hard over a Black Mirror episode.
God, that was just frustrating to watch.
Oh! its Grant from Borderline! <3
damn stuff really escalated quickly on this episode. ( and disliked it ).
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"Who kills a baby?"
Jesus, that ending was brutal, intense and heart breaking.