Some episodes of black mirror are very dark. This one has some dark undertones, but it's also fun too. As someone who's interested the real world dev of futurism and artificial reality, I found the concept of this cool. The story is interesting, a bit quirky, lots of tension, with a few cynical nods to the corporate structure of the tech world.And for someone who grew up watching all the old reruns of Original Star Trek, this one was a real treat.
... View MoreBlack Mirror was always grounded in reality, a possibility so close that you can sense it, where technology reveals the true underlying nature with very REAL consequences. It completely missed the point. The story has no apparent real world effect, worst comedy timing. The script was juggling too many things at once, hence created a mess! Not to mention the unexplained sci-fi jargon just to move the story. NOT AT ALL like Black Mirror.
... View MoreDidn't surprise me at all. The ending was flat.Is this really season 4's best episode? :(
... View MoreBasically episode exploits the idea of one of the previous episodes and just adds tons of dumbness to it. Examples are: 1. Why does one even patch the game from cloud? Just download upgrade to local drive and install it. 2. Why IoT devices (like the one to receive calls from the door or phone) are connected to the internet? He is genius engineer who created whole game and even made a custom branch of it. 3. How dumb software engineer should be to store her naked photos in cloud? 4. How stupid software engineer should be to agree on everything from some random hacker who tries to blackmail her threatening to make her naked photos go public? Especially going against her boss when she's working in company for a week or so...And this thing with guy being trapped in the end was just a cherry on top of this pie of stupidity... As a result - insanely bad.
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