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I haven't watched in a while
Nobody has! These will be the first episodes in four years!
'Black Mirror' is returning with new episodes this June
'Black Mirror' is set to return with a new season on Netflix. Check out the first images starring Aaron Paul, Salma Hayek, and more.
I wonder what this means… What has he said he wouldn’t do that they’re doing? This sounds like it could be great or terrible.'Black Mirror' is returning with new episodes this June
'Black Mirror' is set to return with a new season on Netflix. Check out the first images starring Aaron Paul, Salma Hayek, and more.ew.com
Billed by Netflix as “the most unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected yet”… He added: “Consequently, this time, alongside some of the more familiar Black Mirror tropes we’ve also got a few new elements, including some I’ve previously sworn blind the show would never do, to stretch the parameters of what ‘a Black Mirror episode’ even is. The stories are all still tonally Black Mirror through-and-through – but with some crazy swings and more variety than ever before.”
Watching season 6 now
Looking forward to watching one or two tonight, gonna knock out all five over the three day weekend!
Season 6 episodes
S6 E1 · Joan Is Awful
An average woman is stunned to discover a global streaming platform has launched a prestige TV drama adaptation of her life - in which she is portrayed by Hollywood A-lister Salma Hayek.
S6 E2 · Loch Henry
A young couple travel to a sleepy Scottish town to start work on a genteel nature documentary - but find themselves drawn to a juicy local story involving shocking events of the past.
S6 E3 · Beyond the Sea
In an alternative 1969, two men on a perilous high-tech mission wrestle with the consequences of an unimaginable tragedy.
S6 E4 · Mazey Day
A troubled starlet is dogged by invasive paparazzi while dealing with the consequences of a hit-and-run incident.
S6 E5 · Demon 79
In Northern England, 1979, a meek sales assistant is told she must commit terrible acts to prevent disaster.
S6 E1 · Joan Is Awful
An average woman is stunned to discover a global streaming platform has launched a prestige TV drama adaptation of her life - in which she is portrayed by Hollywood A-lister Salma Hayek.
S6 E2 · Loch Henry
A young couple travel to a sleepy Scottish town to start work on a genteel nature documentary - but find themselves drawn to a juicy local story involving shocking events of the past.
S6 E3 · Beyond the Sea
In an alternative 1969, two men on a perilous high-tech mission wrestle with the consequences of an unimaginable tragedy.
S6 E4 · Mazey Day
A troubled starlet is dogged by invasive paparazzi while dealing with the consequences of a hit-and-run incident.
S6 E5 · Demon 79
In Northern England, 1979, a meek sales assistant is told she must commit terrible acts to prevent disaster.
I think the episode descriptions provided at least part of the answer to my main question heading into the season:
So two of the episodes are from the past...
Just based on the concept, I don't like the idea of an alternate history... I wonder the significance of it, though-- Is that where the Black Mirror universe departs from ours? Could be very cool if executed correctly but also seems highly difficult to pull off well!
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So two of the episodes are from the past...
Just based on the concept, I don't like the idea of an alternate history... I wonder the significance of it, though-- Is that where the Black Mirror universe departs from ours? Could be very cool if executed correctly but also seems highly difficult to pull off well!
Salma Hayek can get it
Joan is awful was waaaaaaaay better than I expected. Great start to the new season.
Gatdamn I love this show!
Gatdamn I love this show!
My top 5 heading into the new season:
Be Right Back
White Christmas
San Junipero
White Bear
Shut Up and Dance
Definitely those five— I think in that order but I haven’t rewatched recently enough to firmly differentiate.
I barely remember season 5 so I can’t do a full bottom 5.
Bottom 2:
Crocodile
Metalhead
Gonna watch the first two tonight with some folks and rewatch some older episodes on my own, eager to see how these 5 compare!
Be Right Back
White Christmas
San Junipero
White Bear
Shut Up and Dance
Definitely those five— I think in that order but I haven’t rewatched recently enough to firmly differentiate.
I barely remember season 5 so I can’t do a full bottom 5.
Bottom 2:
Crocodile
Metalhead
Gonna watch the first two tonight with some folks and rewatch some older episodes on my own, eager to see how these 5 compare!
It's an anthology like The Twilight Zone. (Which I'm going to watch some of for the first time soon.)
So the order doesn't matter...
I'd recommend you start with season 6 so you can experience the contemporary conversation on it, then you can go back and start from the beginning.
You don't have to. Each episode is independent of the others. But don't watch season 5 episode 1. I haven't watched the show since.
Wow ok
Was that the fighting game? Yeah, that was wild. But it gets crazier than that.
Going back and starting at S1 you're gonna see how oddly they predicted future events in society. From Trump to the rise and craze of social media. Shit's bizarre.
I want to smell her ass so bad!!!
Joan is Awful was funny— laughed at it more than I did any hour long episode from the pitiful final season of Ted Lasso— but I didn’t like either of the first two episodes and don’t see myself rewatching them. Average at best.
The second episode didn’t even seem like a Black Mirror episode. Where was the
?
The second episode didn’t even seem like a Black Mirror episode. Where was the
futurism
I saw the terms and conditions angle coming
Seems I’m in the minority though…
1st episode was boring
2nd episode was predictable
On ep 3 now and fell asleep
Show kind of fell off imo
2nd episode was predictable
On ep 3 now and fell asleep
Show kind of fell off imo
There was a post-credit scene for the first episode-- I missed that:
The easiest way to understand the episode's plot twist, and Beppe's convoluted explanation, is to think of it as levels.
There's Ground Zero: This is the real world, our world dare I say. The actual Joan (played by Kayla Lorette) that inspired Joan Is Awful to begin with, lives here. In this level, Joan is watching the actor Annie Murphy play out her life. So basically, everything we were watching as an audience, is what source Joan was watching as well.
Then there's Level One: In this world Joan is played by Annie Murphy, who thinks she's real because she's been coded to believe that. But Murphy's Joan isn't real at all. Instead, she's a CGI version of the real Joan in Ground Zero (IRL). And in this level, Murphy's Joan is watching Salma Hayek Pinault play Annie Murphy.
Then there's Level Two: In this world Hayek Pinault's Joan is watching Cate Blanchett play her on screen.
Then there's Level Three: Blanchett's Joan exists here, and she's probably watching another A-list actor play her as well (let the theories run amok of who that might be, I'm hoping it's Meryl Streep).
The levels continue to build off each other to create many worlds within worlds, and shows within shows, but none of them are actually real. Everything starting from Level One is a simulation, the only "real Joan" is the one existing in ground zero. This Joan is the one who shat in a church (check the episode's post credits to see that scene). This Joan is the one who actually destroyed Streamberry's quamputer. And this Joan is the one who triggered the events we see Murphy's Joan doing throughout the episode.
In Ground Zero, the real Murphy teamed up with the real Joan to stop Streamberry. In Level One, Hayek Pinault (playing Hayek Pinault) teamed up with Murphy's Joan to stop the show. And in Level Two, we can assume that Blanchett's going to team up with Hayek Pinault's Joan to stop the show as well. All levels are just a mirror of things that have already happened in Ground Zero.
While the many worlds of "Joan Is Awful" may be a brain teaser at first — is it even a Black Mirror episode without one? — the answer is simple when you break everything down. Season 6 of Black Mirror kicked things off with a great start, and I don't know about you, but it might be time to start reading Netflix's terms and conditions.
There's Ground Zero: This is the real world, our world dare I say. The actual Joan (played by Kayla Lorette) that inspired Joan Is Awful to begin with, lives here. In this level, Joan is watching the actor Annie Murphy play out her life. So basically, everything we were watching as an audience, is what source Joan was watching as well.
Then there's Level One: In this world Joan is played by Annie Murphy, who thinks she's real because she's been coded to believe that. But Murphy's Joan isn't real at all. Instead, she's a CGI version of the real Joan in Ground Zero (IRL). And in this level, Murphy's Joan is watching Salma Hayek Pinault play Annie Murphy.
Then there's Level Two: In this world Hayek Pinault's Joan is watching Cate Blanchett play her on screen.
Then there's Level Three: Blanchett's Joan exists here, and she's probably watching another A-list actor play her as well (let the theories run amok of who that might be, I'm hoping it's Meryl Streep).
The levels continue to build off each other to create many worlds within worlds, and shows within shows, but none of them are actually real. Everything starting from Level One is a simulation, the only "real Joan" is the one existing in ground zero. This Joan is the one who shat in a church (check the episode's post credits to see that scene). This Joan is the one who actually destroyed Streamberry's quamputer. And this Joan is the one who triggered the events we see Murphy's Joan doing throughout the episode.
In Ground Zero, the real Murphy teamed up with the real Joan to stop Streamberry. In Level One, Hayek Pinault (playing Hayek Pinault) teamed up with Murphy's Joan to stop the show. And in Level Two, we can assume that Blanchett's going to team up with Hayek Pinault's Joan to stop the show as well. All levels are just a mirror of things that have already happened in Ground Zero.
While the many worlds of "Joan Is Awful" may be a brain teaser at first — is it even a Black Mirror episode without one? — the answer is simple when you break everything down. Season 6 of Black Mirror kicked things off with a great start, and I don't know about you, but it might be time to start reading Netflix's terms and conditions.
“Black Mirror” is either radically expanding its definition of “technology” to include stuff like satanic talismans or it’s straying from the theoretical rigor sci-fi requires to delve into horror — or black comedy, and sometimes both. “I got a bit bored of writing [episodes where it] pulls out to reveal that they’re all inside a computer, so one of the things I wanted to do was really shake up what the show is,” Brooker told GQ this month.
Not what I was looking for.
Watched the first 2 episodes so far. "Joan is awful" was well done, and hilariously meta/tongue in cheek. Salma Hayek can still get it. Cool how they touched on themes of terms and conditions in social media, Image licensing, algorithms favoring negativity etc.
"Loch Henry' was a real Tonal shift and it was cool seeing Harper from "Industry" going "Harper" on her boyfriend. It wasn't set in the future but was a genre switch and an exploration into the obsession and over consumption of the "True crime" genre as well as the exploitation that effects the people involved.
Some nice little easter eggs here and there... Black Mirror episodes being the "Streamberry" Menu, being nominated for the awards in the award show etc.
Looking forward to seeing the rest
"Loch Henry' was a real Tonal shift and it was cool seeing Harper from "Industry" going "Harper" on her boyfriend. It wasn't set in the future but was a genre switch and an exploration into the obsession and over consumption of the "True crime" genre as well as the exploitation that effects the people involved.
Some nice little easter eggs here and there... Black Mirror episodes being the "Streamberry" Menu, being nominated for the awards in the award show etc.
Looking forward to seeing the rest
Episode 1 season six semi spoiler if you havent peeped it yet..
stop reading NOW......
episode one of season six, pretty much was tryin to tell muthafuckas
yall really dont know how much of our privacy we are really giving up,
by just checking I AGREE and NOT reading the Terms.....
and by agreeing to shows like Netflix we give permission for their apps
to data mine the fuck out of us...
Its pretty much saying these corporation Know more about you than
you think.
and its ALL LEGAL because we AGREE to the terms...
Google Amazon Netflix etc.... all Guilty of that shit!!
Interesting episode.. Not a Banga but interesting...
stop reading NOW......
episode one of season six, pretty much was tryin to tell muthafuckas
yall really dont know how much of our privacy we are really giving up,
by just checking I AGREE and NOT reading the Terms.....
and by agreeing to shows like Netflix we give permission for their apps
to data mine the fuck out of us...
Its pretty much saying these corporation Know more about you than
you think.
and its ALL LEGAL because we AGREE to the terms...
Google Amazon Netflix etc.... all Guilty of that shit!!
Interesting episode.. Not a Banga but interesting...
This season is trash
This is from 12 years ago (Obama’s first term!):
That, to me, was pretty lame for a Black Mirror episode. Definitely not a new idea.
"White Bear" is craazy
