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BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Alex Vojacek I know "black mirror fans" hates this one because it's not 'bleak' or maybe because it doesn't turn out with a bad ending, maybe it is a little clitche at the ending but guess what... it's THE BEST black mirror produced so far.I've been a fan of the series since season 1, this episode is by far the best structured with one of the most fulfilling stories, good characters, a flawed and perfectly executed villain and an incredible story well told.This is what cinema should be about. We shouldn't be judging chapters by how "similar" they are to the concept or if it's doing the series a well deserved black ending, we should be enjoying chapters for how good they are written how satisfying they are.Being a Trek fan AND a gamer, I would say I loved all the references. There are lots of good details inside, this is my new found GEM.

demilung No controvercy, no real thought, not moral questions, no thought provoking - just sfi-fi adventures. I hoped that Black Mirror will change for the better with the new season - nope, Netflix Mirror is still the same streamlined, dumbed donw entertainment, which is hillarious considering the original premice of the show. Honestly, if you gonna "omage" Star Trek, pick a theme that wasn't explored in Star Trek - the whole sapient simulation things was in Trek, and done better. And stick the happy ending on it - because factual details of your tech are dumb and wrong. Why is your dev kit conntected to the internet? Why are your admin privileges SO limited that you can't stop them flying the ship at a distance? How come a huge nerd didn't built in ANY system for not being trapped in VR himself, which is pretty much the main Sci-Fi fear of VR. Why for the love of god do you need to have the game running while you're offline? Just pause the simulation, you know like in White Christmas, a good Black Mirror episode.All in all, makes you question even watching the show anymore.

Ritika Agrawal Similar to all other episodes in Black Mirror, this episode takes the impact of technology on humans to a totally different level. Humans are growing more and more sadistic, because we have the square box, maybe the television or the laptop that fulfills all our fantasies. Robert as well, rather than dealing with real life situations and making things better with his peer and coworkers, couldn't care less for their rude attitudes because he was taking his revenge with them in the virtual world. Some things did seem off like the clones being able to see their reallife counterparts and not having genitals; loved the line where Nanette says it is a software code and there can't be any without excepptions or bugs.Howsoever, we advance in technology we shall always remain slaves to the idea that it needs to work exactly the way we want it to.

bob the moo The return of Black Mirror was greatly hyped of course, and as one who has watched since that first famous episode, I was happy to see Brooker doing well, even if it cost us Screenwipe 2017 due to his workload. The first episode starts out within an episode of a Star Trek clone of sorts but then jumps to the real world where we find the 'captain' is also the CTO of an online virtual gaming company. The USS Callister is his personal offline version of that game, where he has characters based on people he knows in the real world.In the spirit of the show, there is an element of the real word within this episode. Specifically the idea of people within online games using them as a place to vent frustrations and limitations within the real world. This is me being a bit generous though, because that link to the real that would make it chilling is a bit weaker here, Instead we are held within the detail of the plot - the characters inside the game and their efforts to escape. In this way it is a perfectly fine episode with some drama, urgency, comedy, and a conclusion. Perfectly fine - but not more. What limits it is that the smartness is not there to the degree I'd like. The plot holes in the writing are distracting in their presence. I'm not picking some small technical detail but rather the way things happen (like the fate of the main character) don't have any base, and seem just like good things to happen which were written backwards. Speaking of the writing, I do think the lack of real link to the real world of today hurts it; I am kind in my link to online trolling because there is not that impact to something we know - which is the type of commentary that I followed in Brooker when he wrote in the Guardian, and in other BM episodes.The production standards are high, and the cast is impressive (with Fargo and Breaking Bad written large across several of them, as well as many other well-known faces). It is a perfectly fine episode, with plenty to make it entertaining, but the writing doesn't manage to find that Black Mirror gut-punch or connection that it has so often managed to do. It is disappointing from that standpoint, but still fine as a piece of television.