Nobody in this episode feels like a real person with realistic reactions or qualities, just faces for plot. Season 1-3 of Black Mirror would have been so much more clever with this idea and actually delved into realistic consequences and character motivations. The explanation for the show getting information on Joan is that they're monitoring her phone and copying her life from there. So just... turn it off? This is what I mean, everything is just so surface level and feels like it was the first draft. I think Annie Murphy does the best she can with the writing, but almost everyone else was so bland (except Michael Cera, he did pretty well). There's some nice cinematography here and there and I lightly chuckled a couple times at some of the parody stuff, but this was just a mess.
Review of Joan Is Awful
A somewhat interesting concept told with absolutely no creativity or ingenuity
15 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers