I'm really not sure if I want to watch this...I really didn't like the last few episodes, maybe even the entirety of season 5. Not necessarily because the show is bad, but as a fan of the books, it's really easy to get annoyed with some of the pointless storylines, whilst seeing many of the good ones not realising their full potential. Also, some of the storylines have now caught up with the books. I think I'll have to wait watching this season untill all the books have come out. And then probably wait a while.
Anyone else have similar thoughts?
This season was kinda bad (by Black Mirror standards), The Twilight Zone was better.
The best episode was the Miley Cyrus one.
Black Mirror went from sick, dystopian futures to... VR romance, social media and a kid's comedy with Miley Cyrus.
I see why shows get worse over time, but I can't wrap my head around the fact that Charlie Brooker is responsible for both the masterpieces that this show has produced and the big question mark that is this fifth season.
very nice i love this show
Funny, lighthearted, and fun; the best ways to describe this first season. At times, there are surprisingly amount of sexual jokes. Master Roshi's character is golden.
The stories are terrible. Summary: all identity politics, NPC/SJW drivel. All plots can be boiled down to "white men bad" "White civilization people are all invaders/polluters/enslavers/ fill in the negative "Women are infinitely BETTER than men. Americans are crass, hateful people. The Doctor is a MAN plain and simple. There is a 50+ year history of strong female roles (Romanna, The Rani, Ace, Sarah Jane, Leela, Amy Pond, Martha, Donna, Liz Shaw, etc.) There could have been a spin off with a woman.
I'm usually a big Doctor Who fan, have been for decades, but this season is a terrible mess of modern political propaganda, so much so I could not watch all episodes in this season. I'm sure there will be a handful of viewers that will like this new 'Doctor' but personally speaking, the Doctor's character does not change in any major way through the regeneration process.
I will continue to visit the Doctor again in season 12 but if it's the same I will not be watching all the episodes again as I didn't in 11.
The writing needs major improvement!
Very bad season. Plots are pretty weak. The darkness, the dystopia, the incisiveness on new technologies misuses, everything that made Black Mirror what it was is 100% gone. It's barely futuristic,and the issues are the wrong ones, like they lost what they were trying to say in the middle or just didn't think it through.
They were some very BM subjects that could have been talked about in these episodes : They could have lost their identity in the virtual space in the first one. The ever spying and omnipotence on your life from data collected by social networks in the second. The constant spying of in-home assistant, or the impact of these techs on young minds in the third. But they were totally ignored.
Kinda like if somebody was given a starting idea for a BM episode without knowing what the show is (or used to be) about and then did it in a totally different style.
Acting is actually very good in general, so it's not a pain to watch it, just a bore, but still.
