Black Mirror: Joan Is Awful (2023)
Season 6, Episode 1
6/10
It was okay
18 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I feel like this season stepped away from black mirror and what the initial reason the show was created for: showing how humans grow with tech as tech evolves. This season felt more like they tried to dive into current situations and trends we are in. At least to me, there was a taste of that. The episodes were entertaining, had silly and goofy moments, and some sort of horror/terror/uncomfortable feelings to some of the episodes that I love about black mirror that I wished there was more.

I feel like this one, it was more on the entertaining and goofy episode. Reminded me of the one with Miley Cyrus. It was just random and unexpected.. I felt like I was watching an episode of South Park lol. The concept of the story is interesting but the execution was just bad. Maybe if it was in season 1-3, it would have worked but it just was oddly executed with weird humor and random storyline.

They dived into how we just sign terms and conditions without ever truly reading it, as well as a touch of AI which is current to all of us which was fascinating to see on screen. But when they started diving into quantum realms and all that it was just so unexpected at the end. Felt like they went all over the place with this story.

And the story said how we get her life through her phone and that's how the show is generated? But then like why didn't she just turn off her phone or not use it then? Just didn't make sense, maybe because we can't go a day without our phones really? Not sure if that was their take.
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