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djdarren@piefed.social 21 minutes ago
hOrni@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
IMO the best first episode of any series ever.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Honestly, the second episode "Fifteen Million Merits was the most soul crushing thing I had ever watched, the first episode paled in comparison. Then again, I’m not a pig so clearly Peppa would be a little more traumatized.
mika_mika@lemmy.world 34 minutes ago
I smoked my first blunt before turning on Fifteen Million Merits, my first episode of Black Mirror. Everyone online told me to watch it before Ep. 1.
My emotion was heightened by 10 fold from THC.
I hate this show so much I have watched every episode multiple times.
True joy does not exist to me anymore.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 hours ago
I’ve only seen one episode, the San Junipero one. I can’t wait to watch the rest. I do love some cozy, optimistic sci-fi.
Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Oh honey.
That’s only that episode. That episode is an outlier
The rest of the show is pessimistic dystopia at best.
restingOface@quokk.au 2 hours ago
There are a few that are not.
spoiler
- Hang the DJ
- Striking Vipers
HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 minutes ago
I do love some cozy, optimistic sci-fi.
Well, as others have said, Black Mirror is definitely not cozy/optimistic. In my opinion, it’s easy to miss the final point of San Junipero. You have to have watched the episode White Christmas. If you’ve seen that episode, you know what cookies are and you know that there is an implication in the last seconds of San Junipero that, in my opinion, is pretty dark.
Still the best fucking episode though.
just2look@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Cozy and optimistic is an interesting way to describe that show…
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
I have a suspicion that Netflix is messing with the episode order for some folks.
My partner and I were on the phone with their mom when she mentioned that she just started watching Black Mirror. I had a silent freakout moment and half-apologized for the early episodes being “pretty gnarly” but she mentioned the first one she saw was a USS Callister or something else.
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Its probably because she was episode 1 of a different season not season 1
pandora@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
I always recommend to skip this particular episode. It just is really disgusting and does not convey any meaning whatsoever. It absolutely fails to be an example for the rest of the series. If you haven’t seen it, just skip it. If you did see it and stopped watching the show because of it, please watch another episode. They are all good in their own way, except for this first one. I have no idea how anyone could have thought, it would be a good idea to open the show with this particular episode …
It’s called “The National Anthem”, btw. Just skip it, seriously.
marcos@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The author said in an interview that it was a filter to get the public he wants for the series. No idea if that’s post-facto rationalization, though.
Anyway, Netflix changed their entire system so that they could order that one show differently. It’s the last episode there.
pandora@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
You mean, he was actually trying to hook a certain kind of audience with this episode, so they would be open for the other episodes, they would not have been interested in otherwise? What kind of audience would that be?
Yes, netflix plays the seasons of the show in reverse chronological order, because it’s an anthology and the episodes don’t directly build on one another. I am actually really glad they did that. If I had started with the first episode of season one, I would probably not have continued watching.
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Doesn’t convey any meaning whatsoever??
what did you watch it?
Codpiece@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
I much preferred it before Netflix got hold of it. It’s not bad now, just different.
realitista@lemmus.org 1 hour ago
It used to be scifi, now it’s horror.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
White Christmas?
snooggums@piefed.world 1 hour ago
The one with the pig.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 25 minutes ago
Hawt
realitista@lemmus.org 1 hour ago
It’s getting hard to keep going with this series. Now it’s just full on horror.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
My first (and so far only) episode I watched was The Entire History of You.
I need to be in really specific head-space to watch that show…
FishFace@piefed.social 12 minutes ago
I always found black mirror to be like… very kid’s first sci-fi. Like, “what if you were FORCED to watch ads?” “Bro, like… What if Facebook likes mattered! Like a lot!”
The ideas aren’t impossible but… from the dystopian episodes I saw, there always seemed to be significant obstacles in getting there from where we are that are never explored or explained away.