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    Wot eef there was an app on your mobile that summoned a weasel or a stout of your choice to bite your nippies until they’re all gone? People would have few nippies left on account of they’re always on mobile while standing on queue

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      But like, in the episode they should talk about how great it is to have the weasel eat your nipples and stream the whole thing while pretending they aren’t in obvious pain. That way it says something about society.

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    It always had a weird incel streak to it. I remember the creator something like “yeah I like to portray women being evil because something something maternal instinct”. The episode where the guy’s exwife cheated on him was classic incel bait.

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    Season 1 and 2 + the Xmas Special are solid gold. It was a straight BBC joint then.

    The themes and direction were clear and the show did what it set out to do. I enjoyed that. There are plenty of fair criticisms of the show, but pre-Netflix-collaboration Black Mirror has to stand alone.

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    It’s amazing how 100% of the first season episodes were about people cheating on their partners. Also how obsessed the author seems to be about women cheating on their partners and having a mixed race baby. Oh yeah, i just remembered the “what if you could become a woman in a videogame and let your mate hit it?” episode.

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    Wot if your mate wrote a transcendental musical thst swept all of britannia and when the queen came to see it, his Xbox came on stage and said it had written the tune? That’d be a real trouser pinch

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    Could be good, enjoyed it back in the day, but on reflection its kinda mid. Cyberpunk anthology series could have its day if writers generally understood “its not about how technology makes us bad, but using stories about technology to critique modern society”. Also stop having man main characters where the main tragedy is how the cute girl at the coffee shop won’t date them.

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    I could never get into Black Mirror because every episode felt like a poorly edited pilot, where the actors weren’t into their roles yet and never would be since it was a one-off and they’d stretch like at most 15 minutes of story out into an hour of not particularly good filler that went on way too long. Like I felt like Love, Death, + Robots and Black Mirror were functionally the same thing and both had about the same amount of story and content per episode, but where LD+R trimmed it a little too tight Black Mirror would just keep going and going without anything there.

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      You might find Inside No. 9 a better anthology series to watch. Less “wot if your phone was evil” and more surrealist cross-genre drama. It has a consistent cast and while one or two episodes are weak, overall it’s quite enjoyable.

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    Wot if, a British bloke made a tele show bout how his dame done cheated on em with a cellular?

    Blimey that’s literally the show you made Charlie innit?

    Oh, right-o

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    Remember the episode about the “Cockroaches”…

    I know people complain about stories when they aren’t subtle but sometimes its nice when you’re beat over the head with the “point” a story was trying to make instead of having to “read the bones” and hope you stumble on a somewhat close answer.

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    I have to say I really dislike black mirror. It feels so proud of itself for basic social commentary. Look at Twilight Zone, including the reboot, the story serves the commentary, instead of the story being the commentary stated over and over and over. BM just feels depressing and not in a Come and See way, but in this nihilistic sense.