Great episode, but it didn't feel like Black Mirror. It's missing the sci-fi element, the dystopian topic, the futuristic technology aspect.
Again, didn't feel like a Black Mirror episode at all. Could be "American Horror Stories" but not BM. What a letdown
I don't know what this plot is trying to convey. You said it might be a satire of paparazzi, but then suddenly a celebrity hits someone and flees. You think the female protagonist will use secret photography to expose the truth, but instead, she finds out that the female celebrity is being held captive. You think that the plot will reveal that the doctor is a pervert, but instead, the female celebrity suddenly turns into a werewolf and goes on a killing spree. You thought this might introduce other fantastic plot twists, but she is injured by the female lead and returns to her original form. The female celebrity asks the female lead to kill her, and the female lead hands her the gun. The female celebrity drinks the bullet and commits suicide. Then, the female lead takes a picture of the scene, and that's the ending. I am full of question marks.
Not for epileptics my god
Werewolves? In BLACK MIRROR?!?! Are you f*cking kidding me?!
scorsese deliberately packaged the final scene as an ambiguous ending, and the key word is "packaged" because it was only made to seem like you could even choose between two endings.....but nope, there's only one true ending and the brilliant storytelling just leaves no argument on that case.
how Shutter Island managed to put me directly in Teddy/Andrew's exact state of mind at that moment of realization was really smart and frightening and I could feel what a delusional mental patient would have felt like right until the ending. it made me doubt my real life for a minute because I realized that it could be happening to me too, I could be unknowingly living a life of lies, and it's because Leo perfectly portrayed Andrew's fear and emotions realistically.
the uncomfortable feeling of insanity and events which did not make sense from the middle of the film already hinted that something wasn't right at all, and it was hella uncomfortable and worrying indeed, like I didn't know if my mind was in the right place, if I was drifting further from the film. the final act completely threw me off. I was so glad it did how it did.
as much as I wished that Andrew could eventually be cured, the poignant result of how he chose his own end tied up Shutter Island with a perfect bow.
Another episode that doesn't fit in the "Black Mirror" series. Not even remotely anything to do with tech or dystopia. The "immigrant hate" angle went nowhere. Was there any hidden meaning / point to the story, or was it just a meaningless story?
When the new black mirror season comes 4 whole years after the previous, you can't come back with an episode like this one... the bar has been lowered
Worst episode of the whole series. Doesn't have anything in common with BM
At first, thinking of how this show once consisted of (and was catapulted by) fairly unknown actors, I was a little perturbed by the abundance of celebrity appearances. Then the twist happened… and that was actually all really clever.
I really thought there was going to be one last reveal at the end to show that Davis was secretly a part of his parent's disturbing acts
This was a big miss as a sequel... as established early on in the movie the character of "Borat" is pretty much dead as he is part of pop culture now so he can't do the same stunts as before. To work around this issue we are instead introduced to his daughter who travels with him while Sacha is mostly going around in throw-away disguises akin to his recent "Who is America?" show (which was already plagued by similar issues). Unfortunately they did very little to help ground this in reality. Borat as a journalist had a reason to travel around and have a camera on where as in the sequel it feels quite unauthentic and often scripted. The "charm" Borat had is also mostly absent as he was mostly just in narritive driven scenes (making the Giuliani scene the "climax" AND releasing the movie with this deliberate timing only did it a big disservice imho). Did I chuckle in some scenes? Sure... but as a complete package it was just really disappointing and hollow.
Wth was that dren? Ugh. So predictable. The ending was written all over the guy's face from the beginning. The scene where the gf dies?? Seriously? That was it?. Sigh...really didn't like this one. Felt like a student film final project. The story and characters needed something more.
Easily the worst of the season, such a shame because this season was on a roll too, did not care for this one whatsoever personally.
Definitely overhyped in the press, I honestly forgot I was watching Black Mirror.
This has been the worst season of the show.
In my opinion, the weakest episode from the sixth season. The episode didn't feel like "Black Mirror" at all.
People are hating on this episode, and I get it. But if this were an episode of The Twilight Zone, I think it may have gotten more praise… because it wasn’t awful. And points for it going in a direction I didn’t expect AT ALL. But, for Black Mirror, it definitely missed the bar.
works even better as a rewatch! you truly see the genius of it once you know the ending and can look for clues.
Weakest of this season. I get the allegory of "shooting" with a camera == "shooting" with a gun. But beyond that flimsy equivalency, this episode didn't have much meat on it.
Epsiode was corny. Boring and didn't even feel like black mirror. I was waiting for something crazy to happen. It was wack but like the main actor, the jawn from Atlanta. So a 2
"Which would be worse: To live as a monster, or to die as a good man?" Very touching words ..
This episode feels disjointed from the rest of Black Mirror. The characters are flat, storyline is unclear, and left me uncertain about its intended message or takeaway.
This episode specifically comes across as excessively violent, more attuned to Cabinet Of Curiosities and relabeled as Black Mirror.
what does this episode have to do with BM? Nothing at all.
I hate being negative about this show but these are getting worse and worse. This felt like an abandoned Netflix script that got scrapped for a reason. It's downright boring and unimaginative, especially for a Black Mirror episode. No social of technological commentary, just a mindless horror piece. Zazie Beetz is wasted talent here, she had nothing interesting to do and any actress could have filled her shoes. The last 12 minutes was wild and great special effects though.
Everything is perfect about this except the narration, whose idea was it to have one dude narrate every character, including female ones?
Aside from this major caveat, everything was perfect, the animation was great, the soundtrack really conveyed the feelings of each scene, if they only had hired an actual cast to perform this like a radio play it would've made a whole lot of difference.
Needless to say, this isn't the perfect way to experience the novel if you haven't read it before, I strongly recommend picking it up and giving it a read.
It started so strong - paparazzi culture, someone from within that broke free, celebrities shunning responsibility for their acts ... there was a lot of meat in that bone and the episode could have gone to incredible places. But the actual direction it went to feels really out of place, unsatisfying and unwarranted. It feels counter to what people usually expect when watching Black Mirror. It's not bad per se (even though I personally don't like it), but it just feels misplaced
Not a good episode. What happened with the hit and run? Was it a warewolf and it bit her? Strange and quite frankly - boring.
I'm really not too keen on this new supernatural angle (yes I do mean angle), it's bizarre considering every other season has been about technology
almost a whole month since i watched shutter island and i'm still thinking about this movie's ending
such attention to details throughout the whole movie
