The Americanisation of Black Mirror Season 3
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Trigonometric — 9 years ago(October 22, 2016 06:11 AM)
What sets Black Mirror Apart from everything else has nothing to do with where it is set. I admit, I was a little skeptical of the move at first, but its exactly the same show.
What about the forests? NOPE! -
tnt_for_the_brain — 9 years ago(October 22, 2016 07:54 AM)
I wish Netflix would never had picked this up. I feared for the worst, and it happened. It feels like a completely different show. Like most of north-american entertainment, these episoded feel stale, and predictable. With all of them falling short at the end, like they've been rushed or ran out of ideas. Season 1 and 2 episodes really used to give you a kick in the face that would leave you speechless for 10 minutes. Now you pretty much see what's coming and new episodes seem to be lacking certain boldness.
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gentey — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 08:49 AM)
I completely agree with everything that you've said. The final twists are the worst part. The great thing about Black Mirror was that they raised the stakes to this dizzying mental height and then twist the stakes over and over again until you get sick and can barely watch. Playtest was good overall but the ending was conventional. Nosedive and San Junipero came no where close to Black Mirror in terms of suspense, intrigue, and mystery and San Junipero actually had a ridiculously happy ending. The Americanized Netflix is anti-climatic and uninspired. Social media and racism was the first subject? The UK Black Mirror took on issues like societal revenge on murderers and pedophiles, humiliation of public figures, and human trafficking and mass slavery. This season is a joke.
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moustachegai — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 08:57 AM)
There are 3 very typical Black Mirror style episodes if that was what you were looking for:
1: Nosedive
3: Shut up and Dance
5: Men Against Fire
They all had that sickly twist or bittersweetness we've come to expect, but they weren't necessarily the best this season IMO.
The other 3 were great: wow cinematography and production, extra long too, and showed off that money! I'd like to have seen more of that.
Looking forward to the next 6! Although I think Charlie Brooker needs to work with more like-minded writers as he may be spreading his talents too thin. -
gentey — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 09:11 AM)
I think it was more than the setting. It's not really as good as the best of the Twilight zone either. It's more Outer Limits stuff. They've tamed it down and dumbed it down for the American audience. Most of them have never heard about Black Mirror and they're too stupid to understand a single episode. Now they're flooding the boards with their comments about how their memories are too short to even remember the episode and they have the pretense to act as if they could understand subtext or the dark disturbing nightmare twists of Black Mirror. This is the worst thing that has ever happened to anything ever in the entire history of mankind and nothing this bad will ever happen again.
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The_Badger_Man — 9 years ago(October 30, 2016 10:13 PM)
I'm not sure if it's because it was produced more in America for the third season, or because the third season was longer than the previous two, or because I drained myself out watching the entire series over the course of two weeks (1-2 episodes/day), but I definitely think this third season has taken a dive when compared to the first two. I've heard mostly good things about the third season (so clearly I am in the minority), but I just wanted to share my opinion with a couple of others who shared similar thoughts.
With the exception of episode three, nothing really drew me in or kept me in thought once the episode had finished. No entertainment and no thought provocation.