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Black Mirror returned this year for a 6th season, and it's hard to overstate how different the show feels. It's more focused on the past than the future, and has stripped out most of it's most dystopian technology. But, while this feels like a radical departure, it isn't. Black Mirror has never been just about technology or the future, but instead about media.
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Black mirror has always been Twilight Zone focused on tech. Without the tech, itâs just the Twilight Zone. This season was the most Twilight Zone season ever.
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I feel like "Demon 79" was the only episode in Season 6 that went off their usual tech theme. The other episodes seemed to at least have a throughline about spectacle. "Beyond the Sea" was probably the most congruent with episodes of past seasons.
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Also notice in the Loch Henry episode, that the sadist mother wore a mask when commiting her crimes parallels the "mask" award given at the film award ceremony implying that both the mother and the film industry get pleasure in watching peoples pain.
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This season is more about our relationships with the tech/media, other people and ourselves and it also points to possible solutions sometimes. So to me, it has a quite positive note and I liked it.
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I quite liked the demon episode, it felt very black mirror in mood. I could very easily buy it being tech related vs supernatural as well, being part of some quantum computer multiverse not unlike the Joan episode. then you can think of that the 'endless void' they were meant to go to could theoretically have a backdoor that they could have a callister style ending.
but the werewolf, I just feel like there needed to be a during credit montage expanding on the cover up/science/supernatural something and possibly some sort of hook or seed for werewolves (be they science based or supernatural) earlier in the episode. the episode felt very incomplete somehow.
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I think part of the Loch Henry techno-horror aspect is that when we use technology to store our memories, we lose some degree of private ownership of our memories. While we think the lack of agency of technology like a videotape, or book, makes them good stewards of our memories, that they'll never knowingly share our secret, really that is their weakness. They can never knowingly keep your secret, it has no ability of choice and the secret becomes free for everyone that can access it
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A thing most people miss about the older episodes is there disturbing and ungratifying twist endings to reflect our unhappy dystopian reality and future. Now they all have some what resolute happy or easy endings.
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My issue is the commentary about Humanity was THROUGH technology. I think we all knew the show as about us⌠the black mirrors of our screen show us that but, this new seasonâs ditching of the technological implications feels like itâs just cheapening the showâs intent.
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"What if your mum ran on batteries?" is the guiding principle of every creative endeavor I pursue.
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My legit response to Beyond the sea was âIâm tired of seeing Jessie Pinkman get fucked overâ as a type cast actor and a former character thatâs misfortunes was our entertainment, do you think that was a larger meta intent of the show creator for this episode? It would fit with in the larger critique.
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I thought this season was more about obsession. Like, usually black mirror is about our obsession with technology, with the focus being technology, but I thought this was more about obsession. Joan was obsessed with having the perfect life. Loch Henry was about their obsession with getting the story. In Beyond the sea, the cult became obsessed with the replica and then Josh hartnett became obsessed with Aaron Paulâs wife, while Aaron Paul always wanted to be in control. The paparazzi were obsessed with getting the money shot. And in demon 79 she was obsessed with making her third victim the evil politician and the demon with completing the 3 kills. Joan eventually learned to let go of her obsession and got a happy ending. In demon 79, once the mission is over and they both move on, they get a happy ending. Meanwhile, Piaâs obsession cost her her life and the guy got his perfect story, but at what cost? And of course the astronauts are both miserable with no way to end it. So, just like most episodes are like a warning about what our obsession with technology could lead to, this was a warning about what happens if we let our obsession consume us.
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I think black mirror isn't so much about media as it is about the dark side of human nature. Media just happens to be a great catalyst to enhance it. At least that's the way I felt with earlier seasons, with the episode "White Christmas" being my absolute favorite of the series. From the latest season, I feel like only the third and second episode manage to properly do this, and even then it was to limited effect compared to previous seasons.
It's not so much that the over-arching themes feel off, it's something about the execution that feels like it's lacking, and I can't exactly put my finger onto what exactly that thing is.
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While Demon 79 is mostly about political media ( the rhetoric used by politicians/speeches/pamphlets etc.) It is also about media more broadly.
She is always watching TV alone in her apartment, she has no friends and no life outside of this. Even when she is meant to get murdering she insists on watching TV instead, getting angry when the Demon tries to remove her from the TV ("I was watching that") - even though she needs to prevent the apocalypse.
We also see her actively turn off the news which she finds hard to listen to as it depicts the awful things of the world. Despite having NF stuff graffitied on her door she would rather ignore it ( "I was going to paint over it") and hide from the (very real) issues that she is facing. She accepts the cruelty of her co-workers and allows herself to be pacified by the nicer things on the tv. The demon even appears to her as "The man from boney m" because that is what in her conscious mind she finds the most appealing and comforting. It is only once a demon literally shows her the horrid images of the world in her head that she faces the truth and stop allowing herself to be nullified and instead decides to take things into her own hands - addressing the racism and oppression head on. (Which includes new stories about politicians, nuclear war and even the guy who murdered his wife.)
It also hits different when you realise the personal connection, Brooker's wife Konnie Huq is an Asian woman and her parents likely came over in the era this episode is set in, her sister is also a Labour Party MP. So then you kind of begin to see this episode of also giving women of colour a space in supernatural story telling whilst also reflecting on the issues faced by people of this era in a new perspective ( The real demon was the Tory politician, and the actual demon from the nether realm was an alright guy) .
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I didn't mind the serial killer documentary episode, which had a more subtle touch in regard to technology, the media, etc. The astronaut episode was also pretty good, though it would have made more sense to set it in the future rather than an alternative past. (Also, if I could nit-pick, wouldn't it be smarter/safer to send the artificial copies into space so the real people could stay on Earth?). The Streamberry episode was the best, and the most in line with the show's typical themes. But the final two episodes, the werewolf ep and the demon ep, made no sense to me in regard to the show's premise. Black Mirror has always been about the real world and the ways in which technology impacts our lives, but the show really jumped the shark here, going full-on supernatural in a way that just doesn't fit within the context of the show. They weren't terrible episodes of TV per se, but they just weren't Black Mirror.
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people shit on The National Anthem all the time but it's honestly my favorite episode. It feels so absurd yet so real at the same time, and it's so disgusting it's chilling
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I mean, the vast majority of the episodes as you stated did revolve around tech as establishing hook, so yeah while it also deals with media too, one of the fundamental elements has been stripped, I don't think it needed to change, seems like he just ran out of ideas.
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Black Mirror's pivot to a more pure horror in session 6, with only passing reference to technology in several episodes, put it into a territory that is already very well covered by other franchises. This makes season 6 not all that special; it feels generic and on a well-worn path.
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I've not overly concerned myself with critics, just my own take. Oddly, I figure that as an adult I can make up my own mind. What I found most interesting is that in this season, it was closer to intent to its inspiration. Rod Serling had many axes to grind, but in his era, he simply could not say the things he wanted to say. I love the man's work, and until a couple of years ago I had a paperback that held four of his teleplays from live TV. This season felt, to me, like an homage to Serling, weaving in some fantasy (werewolf) and schlock horror to awesome effect. He isn't everyone's cuppa, and that's fine, so long as enough people watch it to make Streamberry a desire to make more.
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It's so weird that you came out with this when I'm in the process of editing a video about futuristic movies/tv being dystopian and the need for hope, I'll be sure to refer people back to this!
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