I saw that the episode was getting a sequel. For me that episode is significant because that was one of the shows that opened my eyes since it has the whole feminism push along with the "evil white male nerd". I remember a review of that episode saying that it was a great stand for girl power and how it stuck it to all the white nerds who think that the 80s were the pinnacle of pop culture. I would've loved to have asked the lady that wrote this article why they keep remaking stuff from the 80s if they were so terrible.
As an 80s baby I do miss the anthology series. As a kid I watched The 80s Twilight Zone reboot, Amazing Stories, Alfred Hitchcock reboot, Tales from the Darkside, Monsters, Hitchhiker, and Tales from the Crypt. Are you afraid of the Dark on Nickelodeon was a good show as well. Black Mirror could've been great but I forgot the time we lived in. They did a good episode about social credit scores but of course the episode that won awards and rave reviews was about lesbians (along with one lesbian living in a home where her Christian parents didn't approve).
So an anthology series "stuck it" to the era that cemented anthology series as a genre?
That's lefties in a nutshell right there.
And for her to bash the 80s when for a while everything in the 80s was getting rebooted. Stranger Things was a massive success based on the 80s.
It's like kidd who shit on Seinfeld but love Family Guy. Seinfeld was good so Family Guy could be mediocre at best.
I’ve seen Gen z going after Seinfeld for being problematic. My parents watched it religiously growing up. At first I didn’t like it but it grew on me and now I love it.
"NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT" couldn't save them from the mob.
I saw an article upset about the episode where Jerry dates that Native American woman
She was an Indian Giver!
Loved that episode. As a die hard baseball fan the Keith Hernandez episode is one of my favorites. Along with George and the Yankees
We’ve literally been celebrating the 80s since The Wedding Singer that came out in 1997.
Sometimes I wonder if AI is doing all the scriptwriting in all the new shows. 90% SJW injection, 10% entertainment.
I remember a few years ago Nerdrotic said woke movies and shows have the same 4 or 5 storylines. Plus you can predict how a movie or show will go by looking at the cast. The Obi Wan show was a prime example when people predicted it after seeing a black woman prominent in the trailer. Why I don’t watch much after 2014.
Yes the leftist belief that anything you love, like Star Trek, is rotten because at it's core they are all white, hetronomarative, and racist.
And then when they reboot Star Trek it was always woke. I remember Tolkien was attacked constantly by these people but when Rings of Power came out LOTR was always woke.
Your [hobby] or [interest] was always exclusionary and bigoted, and it's time for a change! Oh, also, it was always woke and inclusive, you just weren't a real fan. This isn't a change, it was always this way.
I still can't believe that STD continues to run.
Then again sexually transmitted diseases tend to stick around, so there's that.
I found Black Mirror disturbing because there are people in this world right now who are capable of the incredibly twisted things that happened in the show and much worse. And some episodes nailed current events (like the social credit score one that another poster here mentioned)
For those who want that dystopian fix but can't stand the show, try Twilight Zone maybe.
I like the Twilight Zone, but it's pretty clear it was the subervise jew media of it's day.
Yep. I think that social credit score one was very good and I could see the one where AI uses the social media of a dead person to talk to you. I love all the TZ shows. Haven’t seen the 2019 version so can’t comment
The episode that sticks with me is Alligator. It's the one where they can remove memories from a person's brain. So a former addict accidentally killed someone but it forced her to turn her life around. But a witness to it recently died so she kills him to silence him, and then like it's RDR2, has to keep killing people to hide her continuing killing streak. She ends up murdering a baby, and gets caught because a hamster saw it. It's one of the most tragic stories I've ever seen.
I remember that now! Another good one
The earlier seasons of Black Mirror were pretty good. I had totally forgotten USS Callister until I looked it up just now. That was cringey shit.
Yea. I cancelled Netflix a while back but Black Mirror did start off well
It started out as an indie British production. Netflix acquired it after the ... second season, I think.
Sometimes I also forget, and then I have to smother whatever feelings had grown in that hopeful moment. The announcement of the Fallout series really got me going because I love those games (yes, even Tactics, 3 and 4), though it was a short lived joy as more details came out. Such incredible potential, squandered by fools, zealots and hacks.
I think we are getting back to a less ridiculous state of entertainment due to the money finally running out, and that also makes me optimistic.
My favourite ever Black Mirror episode is the Choose Your Own Adventure one - Bandersnatch - so nostalgic for me. The VR Horror one was good as well.
Yes! I read a bunch of choose your own adventure growing up. Bandersnatch made me want to buy a bulk order of those books. VR one was good as well
I was lucky enough that my school library had about 30 of them. And then I moved on to Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstones Fantasy series with a similar but enhanced mechanic. it must have been a big influence on me as I'm actually using a program called Twine to write a really long CYOA for adults at the moment. I totally forgot about Bandersnatch when I did my top 10 shows - so I retconned it in at 11
I’m honestly surprised they haven’t made more Bandersnatch style episodes
Supposedly it had very mixed reviews from viewers - some people just didn't get it at all. And I think it was fairly expensive to shoot as it had 5 hours of footage.