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Black Mirror: Mazey Day (2023)
My least favorite of all seasons I think
This episode is so far from what black mirror really is. It had no take on technology and how humans evolve or grow with it.
It did give a more taste of society today though which I liked. Although, they do it in an oddly, weird, and random way.
It takes form in paparazzi trying to find an actress who they think she's just a druggy but turns out she's been hiding because she got bit by a werewolf. Which is so funny because they played massive black hole the night she turned into a werewolf which was from twilight. Made me crackle just a bit when I was putting it all together.
What I love at the end is how the werewolf asked Bo to off her but instead bo handed her the gun and shoved a camera in her face to get the last shot as she ended her own life. & as crazy as the story goes with the whole random werewolf story, it's just reminds me of today how everyone has their phones out recording and snapping pictures no matter what the situation or circumstances are. At the end of the day, everyone needs to get their shots in.
Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea (2023)
Phenomenal performance but dragged out story
Not sure why this episode was so long. Maybe only because it had Aaron Paul in it or something? While his acting was truly amazing doing double part acting and the cinematography was gorgeous. The story itself was pretty bland and dull. It was also quite easy to tell how the outcome would be. It also did not need to be that long. A good 30 mins of unneeded filming of just watching him paint then go back to space then go back to earth and repeat.
Many questions left at the end as well... like why would they send humans into space and leave replicas on earth? Why not the other way around. Wouldn't that make more sense? Why couldn't they make another replica? Did he really just kill his family because he wanted to feel what he felt? Like really? Lol. Where was headquarters and why did they literally not interfere with anything. Especially if he killed actual humans on earth. Like it just felt they needed to do more since it was their mission involved with murders on earth.
Overall, it was still nice to see it play out even though it was easy to guess what would happen. It still left me with an eerie and unsettling feeling at the end of the episode. Thinking if he left him out of the pod to die to continue to live with the wife and play out his crazy fantasies... but then he actually just wanted him to feel like he does. That silent scene at the end was just phenomenally done. He just gave him a blank stare and kicked out a chair for Cliff, inviting him to sit with him so they can sit in a pod together all alone until the mission is complete and who knows when that will be. Crazy to think a dude just murdered your whole family and you gotta spend the rest of your life together.
Black Mirror: Loch Henry (2023)
I truly enjoyed this episode!
Now this episode was kind of different from other episodes when it comes to the terms of how humans grow with evolving technology. It had little take on it. But it was one of the better episodes from this season.
I think this season dived in current situations more so. For instance, at the end he won an award for making a small town murder documentary and it ended up being his parents that were the murderers. They even planned to make a movie out of his trauma. His friend also congratulated him and told him how packed his bar is now compared to the beginning where the town was dying because of the murders.
It reminds me of current time. Streaming shows and people making documentaries the moment something tragic happens. & how it seems like there always needs to be some sort of document or show for it. Movies being made of tragic things. How places get popular because of tragic events took place there. But we always tend to forget how the people who went through those tragic things feels like. Or in this case, how it feels to be the person who just found out their parents were the small town murderers. It really made me think.
The pacing of this episode was amazing and did not stray away which gave me the same feelings of earlier episodes and seasons. It left you with such an uneasy feeling and a good plot twist.
Black Mirror: Joan Is Awful (2023)
It was okay
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.