After a compelling first season, season 2 offers more of the same. Except now there's a lot more weird homophobia with Orm and a whole lot of handjob jokes. But the season's biggest sin might be that it just feels like more of the same. The beats feel pretty much the same until the last two episodes where things heat up a bit.
Another weird thing the show does is its incapacity to kill any character. Even the guy Arvid kills in the first episode of the series kind of comes back as a twin. The sad exception to this rule is Frøya... I'm guessing the actress decided she had enough, because damn, she was the best thing about this show by far.
This episode was not as exciting to me as the previous two. The finale wasn't as emotional to me because it felt very derivative of the Doctor Who episode about Van Gogh, and not as well done.
I love this show! High production values, great acting, and the characters are really compelling and well developed. The show is very Spanish in that it references a lot of Spanish culture and history, so a lot of it went over my head, but the show was still super-enjoyable. Highly recommended.
Loved most of the season, hated the damn "You cannot abort that child because it is the future of both our races" clichéd ending.
A brilliant yet deeply flawed episode that at once stands out from the rest of season 3 yet painfully underlies its flaws.
The scene where Mia speaks before the Commission is the best one I've seen in the entire series, and the way event unfolds during and after was a true turning point for the story. Tragic, complex, personal yet global.
Then Laura's choice... The sequence was over-engineered and unrealistic. Why didn't Laura say "These are both living human beings and I choose neither"? It was crystal-clear Anatole's purpose was to show to Stanley that humans plaved synth lives below theirs, and still Laura played right into his hands. A badly-written scene that's all the most frustrating that it has massive consequences for the rest of the story.
Such a frustrating, brilliant episode.
Doesn't live up to its premise. Starts off as "time-travel-savvy nerds encounter time travel," which would make it Scream for SF, but honestly, they never show SF smarts and go through the exact same motions you've seen before.
Besides that, the humor is a bit grating at times, and the main characters are never truly sympathetic. Too bad, I liked the concept.
I really wanted to like this because Orcs! Elves! The truth is, the racial stuff was super on the nose, yet the plot was pretty average. I still enjoyed it, and I have hopes the sequel will transcend this installment, but as it stands, this was not as great as "End of Watch with orcs" makes it out to be.
Batman travels to feudal Japan where he fights the Joker who became a feudal lord. If you're thinking, "Cool, surely that means there'll be Japanese castles turning into giant robots and Robin befriending a cute talking monkey," then boy is this is the movie for you.
I gotta admit, this didn't turn out to be anything like what I had imagined. I thought we'd get an Elseworlds set in feudal Japan, but instead what we got is an insane anime-style nonsensical action sequence in the style of mid-'80s Japanese animation. Ten-year-old me would have dug this immensely. Adult me had to struggle through some of the nonsense, but overall it was enjoyable for the hot mess it was.
Turns out the accused witch was really a witch... What a middling ending.
A disappointment after two strong episodes.
Overall, the weakest season of "Black Mirror" so far. "USS Callister" is awesome and "Hang the DJ" has its moments, but the rest is pretty forgettable. The last episode, "Black Museum," is just downright mean-spirited.
I know Black Mirror is all about grim futurism, but goddamn, that episode went hard at it. Too hard, in my opinion: instead of making us think about the perils and moral implications of technology, this episode was a weird horror vengeance porn with some really dark behavior that would never for one second be considered a good idea in the real world.
I mean, episodes like "White Christmas" had their existential horror, absolutely; but this just felt mean-spirited.
"USS Callister" was amazing and "Hang the DJ" was cute, but the rest of this season has been very disappointing.
I love the entire series, but this episode was just spectacular. I love this show.
Lovely episode. I wasn't sure about it throughout, but the ending redeemed it all.
Second season-four dud in a row for me. The story was clichéd and could have been told without the SF tech.
Familiar story that didn't need scifi to be told. The ending was dumb, unsatisfying and over the top.
