Each episode of Black Mirror really is it's own thing. Be Right Back (S2:E1) and San Junipero (S3:E4) are the most optimistic, but I liked White Christmas (S2:E4) and Hated in the Nation (S3:E6), too. The first ep is it's own distinct horror.
Anybody can be a prop class clown.
Xander ,'Touched'
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aurelia - Jan 01, 2017 9:56:50 am PST #276 of 2199
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
aurelia - Jan 01, 2017 10:19:52 am PST #277 of 2199
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
DH and I finished the whole thing last night, and I genuinely have no idea how I feel about it. It's impossible to mock the twists (SO MANY TWISTS) because each one is preceded by an earnest reminder that this story SOUNDS CRAZY but ACTUALLY ISN'T and JUST GO WITH IT.
I just finished the series and... yeah. I don't regret watching, but I have no idea what to say about it. I do like the idea of using angel tai chi as a baffling form of self defense.
Volans - Jan 01, 2017 10:22:54 am PST #278 of 2199
move out and draw fire
That's what everyone says about Black Mirror, but since they opted to introduce themselves to the world with that first episode, I have to feel that they were OK with it if not proud of it.
Also, and I know this sounds super-snotty, but I read a lot of SF and write futurist analysis for a living, and so far no one's been able to tell me anything about Black Mirror that's new. I think I've settled into "it's a good way to get these concepts to people who aren't otherwise encountering them," but it's not something I want to give my free time to.
Scrappy - Jan 02, 2017 8:27:22 am PST #279 of 2199
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We just started watching "Shut Eye" and I would like to state, for the record, that Jeffrey Donovan is a fucking incredible actor. The show itself is interesting, two eps in.
JZ - Jan 05, 2017 12:28:51 pm PST #280 of 2199
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I've been home ill for a few days and binge-watching The Man in the High Castle. Is anyone else watching it? I'm kind of meh on much of it (though it is nice to see Gwen from Angel, and Stephen Root is, as always, a wonder -- oh! And here comes Tate Donovan!), but I am slowly growing to adore the Trade Minister. I feel like I'd be happy to spend many hours just watching him bemusedly observing various objects and silently pondering them.
aurelia - Jan 05, 2017 8:22:12 pm PST #281 of 2199
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I watched the 1st season. I haven't started the 2nd yet.
Jessica - Jan 06, 2017 9:11:25 am PST #282 of 2199
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I tried very hard to like Man In The High Castle but I just couldn't get into it.
JZ - Jan 06, 2017 10:32:32 am PST #283 of 2199
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I was definitely inertia-watching as one does when one is sick, and wouldn't say I'm into it exactly, but I am way into the Trade Minister. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa gives such a lovely, quiet, thoughtful performance, all care-worn and sorrowful and quietly attentive to everyone and everything around him (I must have seen him before, as his film debut was in The Last Emperor, which I know I saw on the big screen but of which I remember almost nothing, but I'm pretty sure I have missed everything else on his resume) and I'm quietly happy every moment he's on screen.
I looked at the Onion AV Club's reaction to it, and most of those folks are the same -- meh on the show as a whole, but they'd all be delighted to sign on for two or three seasons of Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa just walking around and looking at things, and every now and then sitting down to read a book.
aurelia - Jan 06, 2017 1:14:30 pm PST #284 of 2199
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa gives such a lovely, quiet, thoughtful performance
Yeah, he's wonderful.
Beverly - Jan 06, 2017 4:31:21 pm PST #285 of 2199
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I haven't seen Man in the High Castle, but I'm very familiar with Tagawa's work. Besides movies, he's done a ton of tv, from Baywatch and Magnum PI to Hawaii five-0 and Teen Wolf. Also from Mortal Kombat to The Librarians. Often typecast, he's capable of great subtlety, believeable menace, and artless comedy.