On 6/17/2023 at 1:19 PM, Lady Calypso said:
They really just confirmed that it was all real, which took away from the whole "is it psychological or not".
They had her daydreaming/hallucinating at the beginning of killing the other shoe lady, so I thought that's where they might be going. They could have ended the show with just sirens playing, so you don't know, and then she's just comatose.
On 6/18/2023 at 9:21 AM, Brn2bwild said:
Same. I was expecting her to succeed, but then get caught and sent to prison, with lots of grim media commentary on how immigrants are out of control, suggesting that another Nazi type would rise and that she had averted total war for only a brief while.
I could have rolled with that too. Kind of a Dead Zone vibe.
I mean, she's right and the world immediately ended. So we should listen to people who say demons are telling them to kill people then?
I actually don't mind this episode being "Red Mirror"; like I said, they at least told us we're in a different universe. Like when I watched Fringe and they would let us know the episode was going to be set in the other universe. That's fine. However, the episode itself was kind of lacking a narrative. I like the time period; we know we're on the cusp of Thatcher and Reagan and all the xenophobia. Was it about who to kill? Not really. Was it about a Dead Zone figure? No, not that either. It fell flat for me not as much as the ending, but I think they wasted what could have been a better story.
However, I do agree that when you hear a new season of Black Mirror is coming out, it's fair that viewers have expectations. I was fine with the other episodes except the werewolf. I 'bought in' to this premise here. I just don't think they executed it well.
Seriously though, there's been a grand total of what? 25 episodes? You don't have more ideas about the dangers of technology? Everyone's going bonkers about AI right now. It's not like we're in episode 157 of the Mary Tyler Moore show, and they're struggling to find another dinner party fiasco plot. (Georgina gives birth).
I do like the idea of Red Mirror/Black Mirror. It's fair to want to stretch. They could have done better here.
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