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Season 1
The National Anthem (S1, Ep1)
"Prime Minister Michael Callow faces a shocking dilemma when Princess Susannah, a much-loved member of the Royal Family, is kidnapped."

Fifteen Million Merits (S1, Ep2)
"In a world where people's lives consist of riding excercise bikes to gain credits, Bing tries to help a woman get on to a singing competition show."

The Entire History of You (S1, Ep3)
"In the near future, everyone has access to a memory implant that records everything they do, see and hear - a sort of Sky Plus for the brain. You need never forget a face again - but is that always a good thing?"

Season 2
Be Right Back (S2, Ep1)
"After learning about a new service that lets people stay in touch with the deceased, a lonely, grieving Martha reconnects with her late lover."

White Bear (S2, Ep2)
"Victoria wakes up and cannot remember anything about her life. Everyone she encounters refuses to communicate with her."

The Waldo Moment (S2, Ep3)
"A failed comedian who voices a popular cartoon bear named Waldo finds himself mixing in politics when TV executives want Waldo to run for office."

White Christmas (S2, Ep4)
"Three interconnected tales of technology run amok during the Christmas season are told by two men at a remote outpost in a frozen wilderness."

Season 3
Nosedive (S3, Ep1)
"A woman desperate to boost her social media score hits the jackpot when she's invited to a swanky wedding, but the trip doesn't go as planned."

Playtest (S3, Ep2)
"An American traveler short on cash signs up to test a revolutionary new gaming system, but soon can't tell where the hot game ends and reality begins."

Shut Up and Dance (S3, Ep3)
"When withdrawn Kenny stumbles headlong into an online trap, he is quickly forced into an uneasy alliance with shifty Hector, both at the mercy of persons unknown."

San Junipero (S3, Ep4)
"In a seaside town in 1987, a shy young woman and an outgoing party girl strike up a powerful bond that seems to defy the laws of space and time."

Men Against Fire (S3, Ep5)
"Future soldiers Stripe and Raiman must protect frightened villagers from an infestation of vicious feral mutants."

Hated in the Nation (S3, Ep6)
"In near-future London, police detective Karin Parke, and her tech-savvy sidekick Blue, investigate a string of mysterious deaths with a sinister link to social media."

Cocytus posted...

The Entire History of You (S1, Ep3)

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San Junipero.

I didn't get the love for Shut Up And Dance, but I knew the twist beforehand.
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Playtest
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White Christmas

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SoundNetwork posted...

Playtest

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S3 E1
It's odd but it changed how I view social media almost instantly. Made me take a step back and look at the idiot plugged-in version of myself posting for gratification. Which was probably the point.

But I REALLY enjoy Black Mirror. I love how each episode really gets you thinking.
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Bootybeliever posted...

But I REALLY enjoy Black Mirror. I love how each episode really gets you thinking.

Except White Bear.

I don't really get the point of that one <_<
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How does anyone like this garbage show? I was immediately put off by the first episode nonsense, where a dude fucks a pig.

Felt like the world's biggest prank that everyone is in on.
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pegusus123456 posted...

Bootybeliever posted...

But I REALLY enjoy Black Mirror. I love how each episode really gets you thinking.

Except White Bear.

I don't really get the point of that one <_<

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I think the take-away is twofold, and the theme in each instance is sympathy, for lack of a better word. When the episode starts out, and most of the way through it, we feel for the girl being chased. It never dawns on us that she is a terrible criminal, why should it. Then, at the end, when we learn what she's done, we have sympathy for the community and victim. But then it leaves us with the bigger question, how much punishment is enough? They kind of play out what some people say when in real life a pedophile or someone who did something else horrid, that the criminal should get an equally harsh punishment befitting their crime, i.e. torture. So that messes with our sympathies too because we understand that if she's a criminal who did what she did, she should be punished. We don't want to feel sympathy for her at all anymore. Yet, it's obvious that they have gone too far in the cruel and unusual punishment treatment of her, and it's hard to sympathize with that. We're left wondering....what should we do...

Cocytus posted...

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And I suppose that's the takeaway. But the woman they're torturing and the woman who did the crime are essentially different people.
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pegusus123456 posted...

Cocytus posted...

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And I suppose that's the takeaway. But the woman they're torturing and the woman who did the crime are essentially different people.

When they blank her memory and do it all over again, sure. Otherwise they're the same person, same woman.

But they blank her memory every single time. She's never the same woman who did the crime
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pegusus123456 posted...

But they blank her memory every single time. She's never the same woman who did the crime

You mean literally she isn't? I thought she was. With her husband/boyfriend

It's the same body, but they've completely erased who she was.
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pegusus123456 posted...

It's the same body, but they've completely erased who she was.

That's the torture part.

Cocytus posted...

White Christmas (S2, Ep4)
"Three interconnected tales of technology run amok during the Christmas season are told by two men at a remote outpost in a frozen wilderness."

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Cocytus posted...

pegusus123456 posted...

It's the same body, but they've completely erased who she was.

That's the torture part.

But they're not torturing the same person who did the crime.
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pegusus123456 posted...

Cocytus posted...

pegusus123456 posted...

It's the same body, but they've completely erased who she was.

That's the torture part.

But they're not torturing the same person who did the crime.

They're torturing the same woman. Blanking her memory is part of the torture. They WANT her to not know what she's done while they put her through the ringer. If they just blanked her memory, they're not going to let her go free. That's not the objective, to make her a new women or reset her mind,
They want her to wake up every day not knowing what she's done (though eventually she remembers each time at the end if I remember right) and to go through this living hell as retribution for what she done.
In their eyes, the community, it is very much the same woman.

But she's not the same woman because her mind is erased. Having no memory is torture, but it's not torturing the criminal because the criminal no longer exists.

Hence why I found no real moral in that episode other than "these people are assholes."
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The fact that an average episode of Black Mirror has sparked debate is proof its a pretty good show.
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pegusus123456 posted...

But she's not the same woman because her mind is erased. Having no memory is torture, but it's not torturing the criminal because the criminal no longer exists.

Hence why I found no real moral in that episode other than "these people are assholes."

Right, the twist, the horror, is that they are worse than her, which is hard to beat. And, like I said, this story is kind of a re-enactment of what life might be like in society if, when it comes to "justice", we gave into the impulse of really fucking someone up when they've done a fucked up crime. I dig you perspective though. It is a weird episode.

vbty3 posted...

The fact that an average episode of Black Mirror has sparked debate is proof its a pretty good show.

True.

Bump

I really liked "White Christmas"