Black Mirror (Incredible TV Show)

[Generation21stCentury]

Just found this 2011 TV series. In a word, phenomenal.

Each hour long episode is a dystopian techno-future. It's pretty dark though, and seems to get progressively so, so don't be in a sad place when you switch it on.

The third episode of the first season (there's a second season I'm getting to) is especially red pill.

 

[Feisbook Control]

Just found this 2011 TV series. In a word, phenomenal.

Each hour long episode is a dystopian techno-future. It's pretty dark though, and seems to get progressively so, so don't be in a sad place when you switch it on.

The third episode of the first season (there's a second season I'm getting to) is especially red pill.

I watched both series a couple of years ago. They're not bad at all. There were some quite clever themes. I liked the first series a little more. It was a little stronger, I think.

 

[LeightonBlackstock]

Oh this series is fantastic

Created by Charlie Brooker from Britain, so maybe didn't make it over to America at the time

It's like the Twilight zone, shows the dark side of social media and a lot of the topics we talk about here on the forum.

Both seasons are fantastic. 'White Bear' from the second series is probably my favourite.

 

[Aros]

Great series. I also enjoyed S1E3. It deals with the choice of a beautiful lie vs. the ugly truth, blue pill vs. red pill. However I think the protagonists final action is blue pill.

 

[Freddy_1]

Ha that first episode was great...would be very intrigued how that situation would be handled in the real world today.

 

[vinman]

I love this show. A friend told me about it Saturday, and I watched every episode over the weekend. I think it's a more modern, and darker Twilight Zone. The White Bear episode (Season 2 Episode 2) was a twist that I didn't see coming. I'm hooked. Hats off to you Brits for making some good television.

:clap:

 

[getdownonit]

This is great, I just watched episode 3, best in the series. Bummer that there are only six episodes and a special though.

 

[trickykid]

Too good not to share - Charlie Brooker on how TV destroyed your lovelife:



Quite a bit of redpill ideas in here too.

 

[LeightonBlackstock]

Just seen the Black Mirror Christmas special (was release a few days ago). My mouth is on the floor, five-star episode

Charlie Brooker is a damn genius

 

[Macklin]

Also just watched the new Christmas special.

It was an amazing. I watched the first 6 episodes last year but this may have been the best. Don't want to spoil the plot but the creator has clearly read up on Game. There are some futuristic game teaching techniques.

 

[runsonmagic]

The white bear episode is some of the most brutal dark work I've ever seen.

And the Christmas episode... very redpill.

This is the work of an artist.

 

[monster]

This show sucks.

One of the main purposes of art is to provide a means of catharsis (yes you have your hangups and problems but others do to- you're not alone) or to provide redemption & hope (you will persevere through the struggle as long as you try - you'll get what you need just keep working hard and keep your faith).

This show doesn't have either hope or catharsis. It shows life as shit and you as shit and everything as hopeless. It's a black hole of misery & negativity.

It's been compared to Twilight Zone but this couldn't be further from the truth. This show ends (just as it begins) with everything being shit. Twilight Zone always ended with Rod Serling's voiceover sending a positive and inspiring message.

 

[Slim Shady]

^...And in Kubrick's Clockwork Orange Alex goes back to raping and ultraviolence, except this time with government backing. So is that movie not art?

 

[IvanDrago]

This show sucks.

One of the main purposes of art is to provide a means of catharsis (yes you have your hangups and problems but others do to- you're not alone) or to provide redemption & hope (you will persevere through the struggle as long as you try - you'll get what you need just keep working hard and keep your faith).

This show doesn't have either hope or catharsis. It shows life as shit and you as shit and everything as hopeless. It's a black hole of misery & negativity.

It's been compared to Twilight Zone but this couldn't be further from the truth. This show ends (just as it begins) with everything being shit. Twilight Zone always ended with Rod Serling's voiceover sending a positive and inspiring message.

This is why I have Miss Congeniality 2 and Legally Blonde queued up tonight

 

[monster]

This is why I have Miss Congeniality 2 and Legally Blonde queued up tonight

Those suck too. But they don't try to be more than what they are. Legally Blonde is not trying to make any sort of grand statement. it knows its a popcorn romcom and isn't trying to be anything more than that.

Black Mirror tries to be profound but it's just shit.

Oscar Wilde said, "The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things." In other words, art is life-affirming and makes life meaningful & "beautiful." Black Mirror is 100% negativity and life-denying nihilism.

 

[enderilluminatus]

Downloading the entire series thanks to this thread. I'm excited, I haven't seen some quality television in a long time.

 

[monster]

^...And in Kubrick's Clockwork Orange Alex goes back to raping and ultraviolence, except this time with government backing. So is that movie not art?

That's not exactly how Clockwork ends - Kubrick never ended any movie with a definitive ending but always leaves it open to interpretation.

Kubrick also only ever portrayed dark themes with humor, which Black Mirror entirely lacks.

 

[dicknixon72]

Anyone else find the irony in not being able to make it past twelve minutes of 15 Million Merits on YouTube before having to watch or skip a Miller Lite or Acura advertisement?

 

[shameus_o'reaaly]

^...And in Kubrick's Clockwork Orange Alex goes back to raping and ultraviolence, except this time with government backing. So is that movie not art?

That's not exactly how Clockwork ends - Kubrick never ended any movie with a definitive ending but always leaves it open to interpretation.

Kubrick also only ever portrayed dark themes with humor, which Black Mirror entirely lacks.

All right, it isn't cheerful, but there is a degree of humor, especially in context. The first episode is a satire of people who will abase themselves for TV popularity on shows like "Big Brother" or "I'm a Celebrity", as well as being the theme of the series-that people miss things staring at a screen while life goes on everywhere else.
"White Christmas" too has a certain wry humor-the guy is punished by having to listen to "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" for years.
Check out British radio around this time and tell me that's not a punishment.

If you've ever seen Brass Eye by Chris Morris (who Brooker worked with at some point) you see a similar trend. Making a satirical fake documentary about crime, drug use or paedophilia is not going to be laugh-out-loud funny, but it raised a laugh from me, as did Black Mirror.
It's satire, and incredibly bleak humor at that, but very well made.

See what you think (more Brooker work)


"Dead Set" is another Brooker creation about a zombie outbreak that coincides with the broadcast of "Big Brother"-no subtext there, huh?

 

[vinman]

I enjoyed the Hell out of Dead Set.