re: Black Mirror Season 7 Discussion (All Episodes Now Streaming)

I've watched four of the new season so far:

Common People - I really liked this one. Felt like it was pretty topical and it felt like a more classic BM type of story than recent seasons. The body-harm type angle was sort of out of left field, but it didn't bother me too bad. You could sort of see where it was headed with him having to kill her. but I thought it was pretty well done. I'd place this mid-to-top tier of BM episodes, if for the idea alone.

Bete Noir - I actually really liked this one, even with the completely ridiculous ending. Someone said it earlier, but the "empress of the universe" thing was just plain silly. But outside of that, I did like how they played around with the Mandela Effect thing. And I definitely found myself rewinding the episode a couple of times to see the differences. (By the way, mine was Barnie's originally and the she switched it to Bernie's). Even though the premise of "chicks can't get over some stupid high school bullshite" was retarded, I enjoyed it well enough.

Hotel Reverie - I liked the idea behind this one, but the execution was horrible. The lead black chick was bad bad. I couldn't tell if NF was doing the "change the white man into a black lesbian" thing as tongue-in-cheek and laughing at itself, or if it was legit, but I at least hope it was the former (even though it didn't feel like it was). But the black chick just ruined the episode for me; that's how bad she was. Also, the episode had no business being (I think) an hour and 17 minutes long. They could've done the exact same things in half that time. And if the story was a little tighter, I may have liked it more. All in all, I guess I didn't hate it...but I just didn't like it and it wasn't very good.

Plaything - I really liked this one a lot. I agree with whoever it was that said the ending fell a little flat, and it would've been cool to see the singularity type event. But I also appreciate the open-endedness of it too though. And it was cool to see that the whole thing was a setup for him to infiltrate the security and get the QR code thing into the system and worldwide in a matter of minutes. That was cool. Your imagination had to stretch a bit with it, but hey, it's Black Mirror.




I still have Eulogy and Callister left. I plan on watching Eulogy tonight, and want to rewatch the first Callister before this new one. But I will report back once I am caught up on the season. But even though these episodes aren't overly awesome, I have enjoyed them for the most part and it's always good to have new BM episodes on the menu.