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  • Botree@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This episode made me stop watching Black Mirror for good. It was way too disturbing and I’m someone who doesn’t even flinch while watching horror.

    • TheSambassador@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Black Mirror is just so unrelentingly cynical about human nature. I watched the one with the lady whose memory is removed and “normal” people delight in following her and recording her, and it’s all a big production to punish this women for doing a pretty fucked up thing.

      Every episode seems to just say “aren’t human beings the worst?” The sci fi is interesting sometimes, but I can’t really go through life believing that humans would behave like they do in that show.

      • Rolando@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Just read the episode plot summaries on Wikipedia. That way you get the ideas, and save yourself the time and trauma.

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        1 year ago

        I liked the last season. It was something to watch any way.

        It was not Black Mirror though. I don’t know what the hell they were thinking. That first episode kind of followed through and then it was all downhill.

        Again, I liked it. It wasn’t too terrible. It wasn’t what I was expecting and that disappointed me.

        Well, the two episodes really worked now that I think about it. The astronaut episode and the quantum computer episode.

        Ok now that I’ve typed it out, if you haven’t seen it just watch those two and forget the rest.