Board 8 > Rate the Black Mirror Episode: S5E2 - Smithereens

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Screen buzzes, cracks.

To be honest, I barely remember anything about this episode. I had to watch the trailer to remember more about it. Is it as forgettable to B8?
In the episode, the rideshare driver Chris (Andrew Scott) takes hostage the intern Jaden (Damson Idris) of Smithereen, a large social media company, making a demand to contact the company's CEO Billy Bauer (Topher Grace). Bauer, meanwhile, is on a solitary retreat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithereens_(Black_Mirror)

Guidelines:

• Rate the episode from 1 to 10
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Previous ratings:
9.04 - S1E2 - Fifteen Million Merits
8.97 - S2E4 - San Junipero
8.86 - Special - White Christmas
8.62 - S4E1 - USS Callister
8.37 - S2E1 - Be Right Back
8.19 - S4E4 - Hang the DJ
8.13 - S1E3 - The Entire History of You
7.81 - S3E6 - Hated in the Nation
7.38 - S4E6 - Black Museum
7.12 - Interactive Film - Bandersnatch
7.06 - S2E2 - White Bear
7.02 - S3E1 - Nosedive
6.86 - S3E2 - Playtest
6.71 - S5E1 - Striking Vipers
6.69 - S3E3 - Shut Up and Dance
6.23 - S4E2 - Arkangel
6.22 - S1E1 - The National Anthem
5.71 - S3E5 - Men Against Fire
5.61 - S4E5 - Metalhead
4.88 - S4E3 - Crocodile
4.83 - S2E3 - The Waldo Moment

4/10

I barely even remember this one.

5/10

8/10. Great episode, best of the season with an outstanding Andrew Scott performance.

i feel like if this was in an earlier season i might have liked it more, but by this point it just felt like "haven't i already seen this story on black mirror before?"

theme of the episode (i.e. the ultimate reveal of the guy's motive) felt simultaneously underwhelming and also too on the nose

6/10

6.5/10

I'm pretty certain this is my first Black Mirror episode. I enjoyed the character of the Smithereens CEO.

7

6/10

I actually liked it a lot when I first saw it but honestly it's all a little thin.

Striking Vipers - 7/10
Smithereens - 5.5/10

5

Very forgettable

7/10