re: Black Mirror Season 6 - Netflix Original - June 2023

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Mazey is my new least favorite Black Mirror.

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It was so bad.

ETA: It was basically a really bad episode of American Horror Story, which is already a terrible baseline.

Salma Hayek took a shite in church.

I think we’re done here. Nothing else to put on Netflix that will ever equal that.

Watched the first two last night.

Joan is Awful was a solid BM episode. It was a tad too meta for me, but I get that it almost had to be. And I still liked it and thought it was a cool concept. It also is a little more relevant than normal with all the AI talk lately about celebrities and selling their likenesses.

Loch Henry didn't feel like a BM episode at all. It was more just a straight up thriller. However, I thought it was pretty damn good though. And I'm okay with BM shifting genres here and there as long as the quality is good. Even though the twist was fairly easy to see coming, it was executed pretty well. And I really felt bad for Davis. It was weird seeing Podrick Payne from GoT as anything other than Pod, and I could not place where his dad was from and had to look it up..he was the brother in the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies.


I saw it mentioned previously in the thread about the "woke" coupling, and I do have to agree with that. Through the first two episodes, every single couple is gay or mixed race. And it's whatever. It doesn't ruin anything for me (so save those comments), but it definitely sticks out and is noticeable, at least for me. It just feels so overly forced at times.

But all in all, good start so far for the new season. I'm pumped to watch the rest of them and hopefully can get through them this weekend.

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that was exactly my point on the nose. I'll still watch, it's not going to make me boycott or anything, but it's painfully obvious and unncessarily forced

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It would have seemed less forced if the black girl in Loch Henry wasn't so damn ugly.

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Joan is Awful seems to be the most mixed with reviews so far.

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It wasn't overly good, but it was entertaining enough. And it was classic Black mirror shite.

Loch Henry was not classic BM, but it was really good tension-wise. It just didn't have the "tech" angle like most do. But that being said, something like White Bear is also not tech-centric, and it's really good too. So BM has shown that it can pull off something like horror/thriller, even without technology involved.

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Beyond the Sea

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Just finished this one. Holy shite, that was fricking brutal. You could sort of see where it was heading, although I suspect most people thought he’d just lock Cliff out in space. But I guess the whole angle of mutually-assured destruction between them both means they know they can’t kill the other one.

But despite how brutal it was, it was leak Black Mirror type shite. Excellent episode and definitely top tier BM for me.

I agree with you on Loch Henry, and said as much. But I still really liked the episode…it just wasn’t the typical BM fare. So your comments on Mazey Day have me hopeful that I’ll at least enjoy it somewhat as opposed to hating it like most in this thread.

But man, I’m gonna revisit Beyond the Sea in my head for a bit I think. And shite like that hits extra hard now that I am a parent and have my boy. I was glad they didn’t show the result of the carnage actually, and normally my morbid curiosity would have me wanting to see it. But not this time.

This show is so good when it makes the effort.

Did Loch Henry give anybody else a Love, Death, and Robots vibe? Not sure who all has seen that show, but it sort of did for me.

Beyond the Sea is so fricked up

I thought it was crazy Aaron Paul kept letting him go back and be with his wife.

Cliff's big mistake was taking it so personal. He should have expected that David might take some solace in his wife, and that his wife might be a tad mind-fricked about the whole thing. Its not like they fricked or anything, and the wife ultimately rejects David's advances. Its not like the replicas even have cocks.

If his goal was to calm David down and get his head in a better place, he should have navigated the situation with a little compassion, and rationality. Just take it in stride, and forgive the guy, and don't let him use his replica again.

Now, it still could've ended badly, but Cliff's family likely would have been not murdered.

Just a thought, they should have made replica's of their wives to be able to join on the spaceship from time to time, or at least make a couple of babe replicas for them to power up in such a situation.