She bought a $300 pair of headphones to listen to podcasts and low quality Rdio streams. Are you really surprised someone pointed out that that's a little wasteful, even if it does come with a gimmicky app?

I realize the article pointed out that the video was really pointless, but I was still unprepared for how pointless it really was.

No, it's a copy of Joe and that includes the same flaws, memories, and decision making processes that lead Joe to commit the crimes he committed, so it makes sense to me that the police saw torturing the copy as deserved and justifiable.

Are you being serious?

Also, I thought the party girl reveal was going to be that she also had an eye link and a guide telling her what to do at the party.

The National Anthem is my least favorite (even moreso than Waldo, which I like but not nearly as much as all the other episodes). I didn't find the moral dilemma to be all that interesting because of course the PM had to go through with it, being a public servant, the hostage being royalty, and the case being wide…

"Second, I'm worried that a virtual slave me would find his work more compelling and interesting, and find my purpose in his existence, than the real me."

I think she knew - she was training herself to be more vocal about her likes and dislikes in the operation scene, in order to pass on her preferences to her cookie. I kind of took that as indication that she was aware she was passing on sentience.

I personally took more of an issue with the party girl being revealed to be off-the-rails psychotic.

I had a similar initial reaction to White Christmas, though after thinking about it, the men didn't come off any better than the women and probably even worse.

People preferring Waldo to White Bear is so bizarre to me that I have trouble even grasping it. Black Mirror should make an episode about it.

White Bear is my favorite too. Conceptually I don't think it's the strongest, but I was so thrown by the twists and turns of the narrative that the thrill ride it gave me overrides the high falutin' artsy aspects of the better episodes.

A) I assumed she demanded to see what was on the hardware that he removed.

Yeah, the friend I watched it with and I had that exact violence discussion the second the blocking thing was introduced. My mind immediately went to what a jerk I'd become if this was a thing.

I didn't see the daughter twist coming either, even though it seems obvious in retrospect.

I found out Ryan Gosling has/had a band/duo called Dead Man's Bones that consists of him a kids' choir singing about ghosts and zombies and such. It sounds precious, but it's actually pretty great. I was shocked.

That or their viral marketing scheme paid off big time.

I suppose I can let it slide.

I always thought of the AV Club commentariat as a pretty enlightened bunch without going full SJW.

I also suspect it's because of the difficulty involved in writing, illustrating, and programming multiple branching, quality storylines across several episodes and potentially several seasons.