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Just finished the latest season.

Episode One: Dueling Snakes (or whatever)

Emmy bait. How the hell could it not get nominated without the nominating committee looking like racists and/or homophobes?
Frankly it was okay. A couple of mildly interesting thought experiments brought to light, such as what constitutes cheating, and the complexities of gender swapping. The interesting thing is, we probably arent that far off from jumping to into a virtual world and banging randos, and if that big tittied anime girl is actually a dude will be a thing. I actually liked the ending, but I would have been more pleasantly surprised if it was the guys wife who starred gaming with him.

Episode 2: Falling Down (dont remember the actual name)

As my suggested title suggests, the angle of this episode missed the mark in a lot of ways. The concept that the tech company was doing the police work better than the police was interesting, but it wasnt embraced to its full potential. I liked the way they blew off the fbi guy when they started annoying them. That was an interesting touch. The whole distracted driver thing was an enormous cop out for the motivating factor. A smaller catalyst should have been used, and the dude should have just been having a meltdown over the state of tech addiction. There was one really solid rant by the guy, and that should have been expanded on exponentially. As implied, it should have been more like the movie Falling Down. When he did finally talk to the head tech guy Topher Grace, we should have seen an equally fucked up rant from the other side, kinda like what we started to see before he was cut off to bring it back to the shitty cop out. By the end we could have seen how these two extreme rants on how far gone society has become come together, with the clear message of how it cant be stopped. A potential classic episode but a huge missed opportunity. It also could have been seen as prophetic because we arent far off from people starting to lose their shit over how far technology has gone. But Im guessing they didnt want to challenge big tech. Way to not rock the boat, black mirror.

Episode 3: Nine Inch Miley

Probably the most black mirrorish of all of them, but still pretty fucking dull. And predictable. Right down to the lyrical changes at the end. But thats about the only complaint. Mildly interesting. Im just not that passionate about this one and i dont have a rant. I think that says it all.

In closing, this show is no longer one that motivates me to keep my subscription. Even I doubted my resolve at the conclusion of the season, but the autoplay hardened my resolve. Did it loop back around to season one, episode one? No. San Junipero was what I should watch according to them. Fuck off, Netflix.